Aparavi, which came out of stealth a year ago, plays in the multi-cloud data management space.
Cloud, Storage
Aparavi adds direct-to-cloud data transfer and data classification and search enhancements to Active Archive platform
by Mark Cox •
Tag Archive for Public Cloud
Networking, Security
New DNS security service a major highlight of PAN-OS 9.0 release
by Mark Cox •
Another key software addition is a new Policy Optimizer, that uses network intelligence to find and remove legacy firewall rules that create security issues.
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Security
vArmour to hire Canadian-based resource as part of major sales and marketing expansion from new funding round
by Mark Cox •
vArmour raises another $44 million in a Series E funding round to address what they see as a massive opportunity, and are investing most of it in sales and marketing resources as a result, including hiring a resident person in Canada for the first time.
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Cloud, Partnerships, Security
Palo Alto Networks expands Google partnership to leverage Google Cloud AI capabilities
by Mark Cox •
As part of the enhanced relationship with Google, Palo Alto Networks will now run their Application Framework and GlobalProtect cloud service in the Google Cloud, as they believe its analytics capabilities are the best fit for these applications.
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Cloud, Unified Communications
Mitel looks to expand Master Agent channel as part of global UCaaS drive
by Mark Cox •
A new Master Agent agreement with TradeWinds Brokerage establishes Mitel’s first Master Agent in ANZ, where their UCaaS business is already strong. It leverages a U.S. relationship which is part of a growing Master Agent channel in that market.
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Cloud, Data Centre
Nutanix announces Beam SaaS service integration into Nutanix Enterprise Cloud
by Mark Cox •
The Beam service that Nutanix announced at their spring customer event was designed for the public cloud. The integration into the Nutanix private cloud, available by the end of the calendar year will allow customers to determine whether the private cloud or a specific public cloud makes the most sense for a given workload.
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Cloud, Storage
NetApp CEO Kurian lays out four principles for leading in a data-driven world
by Mark Cox •
While digital transformation has become a motherhood term in the tech industry, NetApp CEO George Kurian kicked off the opening keynote at NetApp Insight by saying NetApp is now emphasizing that successful digital transformation requires adherence to four core principles.
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Cloud, Mobility
At VMware’s 20th birthday party, CEO Gelsinger plots company’s next act
by Robert Dutt •
Kicking off VMworld in VMware’s 20th year, Pat Gelsinger outlines the company’s history of building bridges, and identifies the next bridge to cross.
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Backup, Cloud, Partnerships, Storage
Cohesity drives major cloud push from new AWS Storage Competency Partner designation
by Mark Cox •
Cohesity says that the achievement of the AWS Storage Competency validation will assist them significantly on the technology front, as well as in sales and in marketing.
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Channel Programs, Cloud, Managed Services, Software
EFSS vendor FileCloud reaches out to MSPs at ChannelCon event
by Mark Cox •
FileCloud has been selling their Enterprise File Sync and Sharing Solution mainly direct, and through larger MSPs who do their own hosting. However, they just launched a partner program for smaller MSPs looking to resell a service that FileCloud hosts, and are looking – selectively – for additional partners.
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Channel Programs, Cloud, Distribution
Pax8 announces Professional Services Program to help MSPs fulfill and develop services capability
by Mark Cox •
Pax8 has introduced new Professional Services at partner request, both to perform services for MSPs who lack the necessary skills at a relatively low cost, and also to teach the MSPs how to repeat the service without assistance later.
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Cloud, Data Centre, Storage
NetApp places big bet on hyperconverged infrastructure
by Mark Cox •
At their C3 partner event this week, NetApp exhorted partners to ramp up their efforts to sell NetApp’s new HCI offering based on Solidfire technology, while not letting up on their FlexPod CI activities.
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Cloud, Data Centre
Nutanix looks to help customers control cloud costs with Nutanix Beam
by Mark Cox •
Nutanix Beam – Nutanix’s first SaaS offering – uses technology from their Minjar acquisition to help customers predict and control cloud costs, as well as better track resources and adhere to compliance regulations.
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Cloud, Storage, Virtualization
Liquidware strengthens DaaS appeal with new ability to save direct to object-based cloud storage
by Mark Cox •
Liquidware also thinks that the capability to save directly to the AWS, Microsoft and Google object storage clouds, which is a first in this space, will also appeal to customers with a hybrid desktop computing strategy, who are not yet ready for a full move to DaaS.
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Backup
Cohesity adds CloudSpin capability for faster test/dev in the cloud
by Mark Cox •
CloudSpin will be integrated as a free component within the Cohesity platform when it becomes available in 90-120 days.
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Cloud, Managed Services
New Citrix Replacement App highlights latest release of CloudJumper Workspace-as-a-Service platform
by Mark Cox •
Other enhancements to Cloudjumper Cloud Workspace Management Suite 5.2 include the ability to provision a full software-defined data centre in either Azure or Google with a single click.
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Networking, Virtualization
Nutanix CEO says Netsil acquisition will enable hypervisor-independent networking stack
by Mark Cox •
Nutanix makes its second acquisition in little over a week, and with Minjar and Netsil combined, Nutanix CEO Dheeraj Pandey says that Nutanix can build a next-generation control plane, with seamless movement between cloud stacks.
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Cloud, Security
Palo Alto Networks to enhance full range of protection for full range of public clouds
by Mark Cox •
Improvements to Palo Alto Networks’ Next-Generation Security Platform will extend inline, API-based and host based are protections for all three major public clouds.
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Backup, Cloud
Veritas adds cloud-based data protection for Azure and Google with CloudPoint 2.0
by Mark Cox •
While CloudPoint 1.0 was all about snapshotting, 2.0 layers on additional data protection capabilities. It’s available now for Azure and Google, with AWS not that far off.
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Security, Small Business
SonicWall brings three new solutions into beta trials
by Mark Cox •
SonicWall Capture Client, SonicWall Network Security virtual next-generation firewalls and the SonicWall virtual web application firewall are all scheduled for release in Q2.
