Tag Archive for Public Cloud

Cohesity broadens go-to-market with HPE, Azure, Lenovo partnerships

The HPE deal, which is the only one that has a reselling component, is likely to have the most immediate impact for Cohesity, but both the others have different types of potential as well.

Opportunity, risk for channel in new Dell EMC Cloud Flex flexible consumption model for HCI

New flexible consumption models were front and centre this week at Dell EMC World. They may attract new customers, but will they attract partners?

Michael Dell distributes wisdom at Dell EMC World

Dell Technologies’ CEO took questions on a myriad of topics, ranging from the wisdom of doubling down on PCs when the segment is in decline, to why a traditional hardware company believes it to be well positioned for the cloud era.

Sales Samurai program highlights new announcements at Sophos partner event

Sophos also launched a new Hot Line to provide competitive intelligence, made changes to their post-sales technical skills certification and should have a new Cloud Security Provider program by the fall.

Rubrik extends its data management platform natively into the cloud

Rubrik previously had the ability to archive in the cloud, but now has extended their cloud capability to allow their software to run natively on the major public cloud providers.

Sensitive data governance provider Dataguise extends support to Google Cloud Storage

Enterprise player Dataguise adds full integration with another major cloud player, as part of its strategy of broadening out beyond large enterprises.

New bi-directional cloud replication highlights SwiftStack 5 software release

SwiftStack expands the one-way cloud replication it introduced last year, as part of its strategy in expanding from what was initially an on-prem solution, to one capable of managing a multi-cloud hybrid cloud.

Nimble Storage launches multi-cloud storage service for AWS and Azure

Nimble Cloud Volumes adapts Nimble’s technology so it can be delivered as a service, which the company believes will significantly expand their total addressable market.

Panzura targets NAS with Freedom product family

Panzura’s family of three offerings offer progressively more functionality, and all are geared to let customers leverage cloud storage while still having all the performance and features of local storage.

Avaya introduces new global channel chief – and new partnering philosophy

Walter Denk, who has a distribution background and has been working for Avaya in Germany, is the company’s new global channel chief. Even more importantly, he says that the job has been redefined and that the channel will benefit.

HotLink signs on Avnet as first distributor for VMware-focused cloud integration platform

Avnet will also distribute the HotLink Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service offering in the U.S., and Canada, an offering that Hotlink thinks is exceptionally well-suited to the channel.

Big changes in data centre technology to help channel in 2017: Dell EMC

The CTO of the Dell EMC Converged Platforms & Solutions Division also stressed the continuing importance of their Nutanix partnership, emphasizing its centrality to Dell EMC’s growing relationship with Microsoft.