Tegile says its new scale-out platform, with flash prices starting at about 50 cents/GB, will make on-prem flash cheaper than the public cloud and thus give channel partners a powerful weapon.
Nutanix makes its first foray into acquiring other people’s technology with a pair of deals designed to enhance their storage-class memory systems and improve their cloud automation and management capabilities.
Lenovo’s Don Frame and Stefan Bockhop discuss the vendor’s growing data centre business group, and Lenovo’s advantages in the cloud infrastructure market.
ZeroStack has sold its software has to date on SuperMicro white box hardware, but requests from both partners and customers have led ZeroStack to broaden it out to Dell and HPE, with select other vendors likely on the way.
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Data protection vendor Acronis announces a Backup Cloud Extension for Azure, as well as the future availability of a Backup Cloud Extension for Microsoft Azure Stack – which will be available when Microsoft releases Azure Stack.
The turnkey solutions are expected to build up Equinix’s base of MSP and VAR partners, something that has been a focus for the company this year. Equinix is especially interested in partners with strong Microsoft practices.
At its .NEXT event, Nutanix has been stressing that the company needs to reinvent itself, moving beyond its hyper-converged base, despite the considerable risks in its larger objective of becoming a platform company that can redefine the datacentre’s private cloud.
Two of Nutanix’s top Canadian partners discuss the evolution of their companies’ relationship with Nutanix, from early days to the present and how they have become successful partnering with the company, while taking somewhat different strategies.
Nutanix has unveiled a host of related announcements, including enhancements in its upcoming July 4.7 release that will add support for containerized and physical environments, supporting everything in a single platform.
Chris Morgan assessed his success in executing on his priorities in this first year on the job, and considers the channel impact of Nutanix’s emphasis in 2016 of the big picture beyond simply saving money through hyper-converged solutions.
The program, which has two tiers, provides infrastructure enhancements related to managed services as well as business process changes desired by MSPs, like the separation of hardware purchases from software and pay-as-you-go billing.
HPE’s cloud announcements at its Discover event had a decidedly multi-cloud texture, as the company announced four new and refreshed cloud solutions.
SAP and Apigee are both seeing good synergies from their approximately two year-old partnership, the type of ISV alliance strongly being broadly pursued by both companies.
The OCF found that in addition to resolving massively increased complexity in market allocation issues stemming from the growing segmentation of the market, implementing the SAP solution gave them the benefits of CRM for the first time, and enabled them to realize major benefits from going digital.
The VM-aware storage vendor also announced new predictive analytics capabilities, nine new all-flash model options, and two new cloud offerings.
In 2016 and beyond, we believe VDI use cases will expand as cost and complexity continues to diminish, and security concerns continue to rise. Here are the top three cloud client-computing trends partners need to know.
The program is designed to support a select channel deliver an ‘OpenStack Cloud-in-a-Box’ that is simple both for customers to use and partners to sell and install.
Datto is looking to disrupt a highly commoditized market, attract a significant number of new prospects for its channel, and provide upgrade options to better monetize the offering.
Integrating the capabilities acquired from Connected Data’s Transporter appliances gives Nexsan what they believe will be a completely differentiated unified storage offering.
