migration

Druva expands AWS partnership with availability of Druva on AWS Snowball Edge

November 1, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off

A new collaboration between Druva and AWS combines data protection and cloud migration abilities in these devices, which back up and restore directly to them, and allow easy petabyte-scale workload transfer to the cloud.

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Commvault launches ‘know your data’ solution with Commvault Activate

October 15, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off

Commvault has had their Activate solution for discovery of data available for a while, but is formally launching it now, as a core component of their simplified four product area portfolio, and says that it will be a strong product for channel partners.

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PagerDuty continues to build out go-to-market model with AWS Marketplace availability

July 20, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off

The San-Francisco-based company with a strong Canadian connection has been moving beyond their direct model as they expand, introducing a channel program earlier this year, and now making themselves available for sale to AWS customers on that marketplace.

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Quest sees strong channel role in new Quest on Demand Migration module

July 16, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off

Quest on Demand Migration has been sold since the end of March, but is being officially announced at Microsoft Inspire. All of the deals which have closed in the quarter plus since it has been available have gone through partners.

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Cloud

Pulse Secure Access solutions now certified for Microsoft Azure cloud

June 25, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off

Pulse Secure’s flagship access joins their vADC in the Azure cloud, broadening their hybrid cloud strategy which already had a fuller AWS presence.

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Komprise signs first non-cloud strategic reseller relationship,with IBM

May 30, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off

Intelligent data management startup Komprise has also expanded their distribution network, signing on Lifeboat to complement original distribution partner Synnex

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Veeam cloud company N2WS expands AWS solution support with Cloud Protection Manager 2.3 release

May 16, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off

N2WS makes a sexy announcement expanding NoSQL support around Amazon DynamoDB, a solid announcement expanding support for Amazon Aurora databases, and a RESTful API announcement that will be of particular interest to channel partners.

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JetStream Software launches with cloud data management solution for VMware MSPs and CSPs

April 3, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off

The JetStream technology, which leverages the VMware IO Filter API, has its roots in a company called FlashSoft, which was acquired by SanDisk, was part of the WD acquisition of SanDisk, and has now been spun out into a focused software company.

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Is 2018 the year for Desktops-as-a-Service?

February 20, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off

A solution provider panel at the recent IGEL customer event discussed the evolution of the DaaS market and what they see as the opportunities – and pitfalls – for the channel.

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