Cohesity hopes to outgrow its new offices in the GTA, which will be filled both with new engineers for the company’s R&D operations, and new sales people working with the partners who are their sole route to market.
Enhancements in Rubrik’s latest release include certification for SAP HANA, instant recovery capabilities for Oracle database instant recovery and improved Microsoft Office 365 protection on the Rubrik Polaris SaaS platform.
Intelligent data management startup Komprise has also expanded their distribution network, signing on Lifeboat to complement original distribution partner Synnex
The integration of full-featured file support to the Cloudian object platform opens them to some new markets – and is also opening them to some new types of channel partners.
Netgear’s new smart cloud offering provides a free app and a free subscription for a basic version. New switches and APs are required though, and a paid version with unlimited device support and additional features will be available early next year.
Spectra BlackPearl NAS differs from the Spectra Logic existing Spectra Verde NAS box by being attached to their BlackPearl object storage gateway, and also by being upgradeable to BlackPearl.
WekaIO has emerged from stealth with a channel-friendly parallel scale- out file storage solution that uses the compute layer to eliminate external storage devices.
While the channel’s role in NetApp object storage has largely been limited to specific verticals, the company believes object storage’s market has finally grown to the point where broader market opportunities are a reality.
QNAP replaces its TS-1080 with a new, beefier model, which will give its channel a more robust offering for customers who want enterprise capacity, but who have space issues.
Riverbed fills in what they state was the only void in their SteelFusion edge product, and expect this will open up new opportunities and continue the product line’s momentum.
Nexsan’s new Unity Active Archive is expected to have a much larger market than Nexsan’s Assureon archiving product, because of its ease of use and deployment, broader use cases, and attractive pricing.
Nutanix sees its native file serving solution on the Nutanix Distributed File Storage Fabric as opening up a large new market for it displacing NAS servers, and bringing disruption to a NAS market they say has been ready for it for a while.
The free Connector front-ends a NAS device, allowing the Transporter appliance to sync important files and folders seamlessly to users’ laptops and mobile devices, to overcome NAS’s limitations with mobility.
Seagate NAS Pro line includes everything from fully loaded to completely diskless for VARs who prefer to specify their own storage for customers’ NASes.
EMC refreshes its Data Domain operating system, introduces a new release of VPLEX.
Joint venture’s NAS offerings integrated into Lenovo’s channel program
Focus on enterprise should make for an “interesting second half” in the storage market, analyst suggests
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