July 2, 2015Mark CoxComments Off on Toronto’s Breqwatr taking appliance to simplify private cloud deployments through the channel
The Toronto startup is going to market through the channel out of the gate, and unusually for a startup, has been picked up by a major distributor. Arrow is handling their North American distribution.
May 26, 2015Mark CoxComments Off on Virtustream acquired by EMC, to become separate EMC Federation business
Virtustream will form the basis of EMC’s managed cloud services business, and will be sold both direct and through service provider and integrator partners.
May 15, 2015Mark CoxComments Off on Hyperconverged startup Stratoscale gears up for late summer product release
Stratoscale emerged from stealth late last year with some powerful vendor investors, a unique hyperconverged value proposition and a 100 per cent channel strategy. The plan is for the product to be available this summer.
May 5, 2015Mark CoxComments Off on EMC defines open source strategy, opens ScaleIO to freemium model
EMC’s announcements indicate that EMC’s open source strategy is becoming much more critical, something the company says is good news for their channel partners.
Red Hat has built out its storage portfolio over the last year, and now the company’s storage chief says it’s time to take the technology to the channel.
Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst tells troops there’s a massive shortage of skills to deliver OpenStack cloud solutions and the company’s OpenShift PaaS offering.
April 8, 2015Robert DuttComments Off on Red Hat channel chief: Time to build an open source practice
“Don’t miss this wave,” Mark Enzweiler tells partners as Red Hat prepares to invest in helping partners sell open source as innovation, not commoditization.
On the eve of its partner conference, VMware introduces major new releases of vSphere and vSAN, outlines its vision for virtual networking across clouds.