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Cohesity ups investment in Canada and looks to drive deeper into midmarket

March 18, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cohesity ups investment in Canada and looks to drive deeper into midmarket
Cohesity hopes to outgrow its new offices in the GTA, which will be filled both with new engineers for the company’s R&D operations, and new sales people working with the partners who are their sole route to market. 

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Storage

StorageCraft adds to vertical bundles with StorageCraft for Healthcare

February 20, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on StorageCraft adds to vertical bundles with StorageCraft for Healthcare
Following similar offerings introduced last year for law enforcement and education, Storagecraft adds a new offering for health care, which combines their OneXafe converged data platform with messaging aimed at a specific vertical, and go-to-market reseller partners selected and trained around the solution.

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Storage

Quantum introduces new StorNext Xcellis appliances with upgraded hardware

February 5, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Quantum introduces new StorNext Xcellis appliances with upgraded hardware
The Xcellis appliances are targeted at use cases which require intense video workflows, and benefit from the hardware upgrades, which include 100GbE connectivity and major increases in processing power and RAM.

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Partnerships

HPE, Datera partner on ‘ScaleIO-killer’ solution

January 15, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE, Datera partner on ‘ScaleIO-killer’ solution
Datera, which now has EMC veteran Guy Churchward at the helm, will also join the HPE Complete program, with a strategy that remains vendor-agnostic, but which for the moment has a strong leaning towards HPE.

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Cloud

Elastifile deepens Google partnership with first fully managed scale-out file storage service for GCP

December 11, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Elastifile deepens Google partnership with first fully managed scale-out file storage service for GCP
The new managed service, operated by Elastifile, but with a Google UI and Google billing of the customer, is the product of a deep collaboration between the two companies.

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Backup

Rubrik Datos IO adds new Docker functionality, Azure support in major 3.0 release

September 12, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Rubrik Datos IO adds new Docker functionality, Azure support in major 3.0 release
The first release since Rubrik acquired Datos IO earlier his year also makes major enhancements to the platform’s scale-out architecture and performance.

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Storage

StorageCraft targets midmarket with converged OneXafe platform for both primary and secondary storage

August 20, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on StorageCraft targets midmarket with converged OneXafe platform for both primary and secondary storage
StorageCraft is entering a market segment where other companies already play, although StorageCraft does have some interesting points of technology differentiation. The big difference though is that other vendors in this space are focused on the enterprise, while StorageCraft OneXafe is aimed at – and priced for – the midmarket.

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Storage

StorageCraft continues vertical solutions strategy with StorageCraft for Education bundle

July 16, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on StorageCraft continues vertical solutions strategy with StorageCraft for Education bundle
StorageCraft is now offering a standard bundle with special pricing for the education market. Later this summer, they will also be introducing more complex integrated solutions for their vertical markets as well.

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Backup

Hedvig and Veeam partner around next-generation of backup

July 16, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Hedvig and Veeam partner around next-generation of backup
The partnership aims to combine Veeam’s availability software with Hedvig’s software-defined backup repository, creating a technologically advanced and versatile backup and recovery combination. Hedvig indicated that other deep technology partnership to create joint solutions are in the works.

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Storage

Qumulo unveils disruptive entry level offering for archive file storage

June 19, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Qumulo unveils disruptive entry level offering for archive file storage
Qumulo combines their extreme scale-out Qumulo File Fabric software in a dense 1U box with dense 12TB drives powered by a system-on-a-chip, to provide a new lower-cost offering designed to make archives much more accessible to users than has been the case until now.

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Channel Programs

Scale-out NAS vendor Rozo Systems aims to scale up its channel with first partner program

May 15, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Scale-out NAS vendor Rozo Systems aims to scale up its channel with first partner program
Rozo Systems, which has been based mainly in the media and entertainment vertical, sells entirely through a select partner channel. They are now looking to augment that channel, and to that end, have introduced their first partner program.

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Channel Programs

Iventosch looks to move Qumulo from startup to leveraged model with two-pronged channel strategy

February 12, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Iventosch looks to move Qumulo from startup to leveraged model with two-pronged channel strategy
Armed with a new channel program, and a new exec to provide more focus on channel strategy, Qumulo looks to both improve the efficiency of its own channel, and the HPE channel that comes through their partnership with HPE.

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Cloud

New multi-cloud support highlights Cloudian HyperStore 7

January 23, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on New multi-cloud support highlights Cloudian HyperStore 7
Extending their native cloud support to the Google and Microsoft clouds as well as AWS will allow Cloudian partners to add a multi-cloud dimension to their hybrid cloud options for customers.

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Cloud

Elastifile expands AWS relationship in further development of hybrid cloud strategy

November 30, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Elastifile expands AWS relationship in further development of hybrid cloud strategy
Elastifile’s certification as an APN Technology Partner facilitates their offering native AWS deployments, and strengthens their already blossoming business with AWS customers.

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Cloud

Datrium announces cloud-native Cloud DVX for backup and recovery for AWS

November 28, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Datrium announces cloud-native Cloud DVX for backup and recovery for AWS
Datrium is offering its backup and DR recovery for the AWS cloud as basically a managed service, where the customer works through the Datrium interface and doesn’t have to learn the intricacies of managing AWS.

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Cloud

Scalable storage vendor WekaIO makes major enhancements to AWS functionality in new release

November 27, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Scalable storage vendor WekaIO makes major enhancements to AWS functionality in new release
On the heels of a key new partnership with HPE, the extension of the WekaIO relationship with AWS significantly strengthens the startup’s go-to-market positioning.

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Backup

Comtrade to enhance built-for Nutanix HYCU backup with ESX support

November 8, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Comtrade to enhance built-for Nutanix HYCU backup with ESX support
Other new elements, which will be formally announced next week, include an early trial for AFS backup and more efficient support for ROBO environments.

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Storage

Panasas continues to move beyond HPC with next generation of scale-out NAS

November 8, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Panasas continues to move beyond HPC with next generation of scale-out NAS
The big breakthrough for Panasas here is the new ASD-100 disaggregated Director Blade, which allows metadata to be accessed twice as fast as the previous product generation.

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Backup

Commvault looks to set data protection gold standard through ScaleProtect with Cisco UCS

October 24, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Commvault looks to set data protection gold standard through ScaleProtect with Cisco UCS
With ScaleProtect, Commvault looks to create a branding that has been as successful as the FlexPod brand has been for Cisco and NetApp.

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Storage

Tintri unveils all-flash 10TB T1000 for ROBO, departmental and (shhh) SMB deployments

September 27, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Tintri unveils all-flash 10TB T1000 for ROBO, departmental and (shhh) SMB deployments
Following the announcement of their new high-end enterprise cloud platform earlier this month, Tintri now announces availability of a much smaller 10 TB system, aimed at smaller deployments within – and quite possibly outside – the enterprise.

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