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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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.