Public Cloud

Silver Peak unveils Unity Fabric uniting cloud, internet, and WAN

August 13, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off

Unlike traditional WAN optimization solutions, Unity’s ability to keep Cloud SaaS and IaaS traffic on the same fabric lets it intelligently route traffic to the public cloud over a secure, optimal path.

Dell rolls out two new backup appliances, latest AppAssure release

July 15, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off

New backup appliances include the DL 1000, Dell’s first purpose-built for SMB, an area of strength for the Round Rock, Tex. vendor.

Fidelma Russo, senior vice president of EMC’s VMAX product business unit

EMC looks to expand channel footprint with VMAX 3.0 launch

July 14, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off

EMC says its upcoming VMAX 3.0 launch will push the product further into the midmarket and expand the breadth and depth of partner access to the platform.

Eran Farajun, executive vice president, Asigra

Asigra looks to drop hardware costs for MSPs

June 18, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Backup software vendor Asigra builds an open-source stack that it says can cut MSP’s storage costs on backup-as-a-service in half

OpenText launches corporate sharing based on SAP HANA

June 6, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off

OpenText introduces DropBox competitor, brings its Archive products over to SAP’s in-memory database.

Edison Peres will now lead Cisco's Intercloud partner strategy

Cisco’s Intercloud gets channel chief, more partners

June 2, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Cisco announces new partners for its Intercloud effort and assigns channel chief Edison Peres to lead its cloud channel charge.

Randy Milthorpe, business development manager for HP Cloud at HP Canada.

HP brings cloud partner programs to Canada

May 14, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off

HP Canada introduces new partner programs for cloud builders, and those who seek to resell HP’s public and managed cloud offerings.

Jeremy Burton, president of EMC’s Information Infrastructure business

EMC debuts Elastic Cloud Storage Appliance

May 8, 2014 Robert Dutt 1

EMC says its new appliance allows enterprises and service providers to operate cloud storage cheaper than the big public cloud providers’ storage offerings.