Private Cloud

EMC partners with Ottawa’s CloudLink on integrated RecoverPoint cloud solution

September 30, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off

The joint offering with EMC, available through EMC and its channel, is designed to provide a secure Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service offering that is less expensive and less complex to deploy than existing DR solutions.

BlueData launches software to create Big Data private cloud experience on-prem

September 17, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off

Blue Data says their technology makes it possible to build 100 node Hadoop and Spark clusters in less than ten minutes, and get the same kind of on-premise Big Data as the huge cloud companies at a fraction of the cost.

Dimension Data launches Canadian cloud data centre

September 3, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off

In certain sectors, a Canadian cloud data centre is now a de facto requirement, especially in the public sector, health care and financial services, because while it may not be a regulatory requirement, it has become mandatory in many RFPs.

Greg Smith, senior director of product and technical marketing at Nutanix.

Nutanix welcomes VMware to hyper-converged fray

September 3, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off

With new funding and new markets to tap, Nutanix sees the debut of VMware’s Evo family of products as evidence for further convergence of infrastructure.

VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger at VMworld 2014.

VMware’s Gelsinger: Hybrid is the endgame

August 25, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Hybrid IT isn’t a waypoint on the way to the cloud, it’s the right long-term approach for enterprises, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger says ahead of VMworld.

PROMISE Technology launches FileCruiser private cloud solution

August 20, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off

The long-time maker of RAID controllers and subsystems embarks on its first venture in the cloud, and its first software application venture, with plans to expand it into a hybrid cloud offering.

Seagate unveils new NAS lines for small business

July 15, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off

Seagate NAS Pro line includes everything from fully loaded to completely diskless for VARs who prefer to specify their own storage for customers’ NASes.