Service Provider

“Hey, You, Get off of my Cloud!” Are You Complying with PIPEDA?

February 11, 2015 Guest Poster Comments Off

Avnet Technology Solutions poses some thought-provoking questions for Canadian solution providrs building out their cloud business in this contributed blog.

Asigra broadens converged data protection in Version 13

February 10, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

The long-time cloud backup solution’s new features include Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service enablement, open infrastructure support for FreeBSD on ZFS and CentOS, and integration with Linear Tape File System for archiving.

Something for every partner in pre-PEX launches, VMware says

February 2, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off

On the eve of its partner conference, VMware introduces major new releases of vSphere and vSAN, outlines its vision for virtual networking across clouds.

Vancouver’s Cirius adds distribution to broaden reach for channel-friendly secure messaging platform

November 11, 2014 Mark Cox 1

Cirius is gearing up for a push on multiple fronts, including a new emphasis on their own branded products, entering a new global broadline distribution deal, increasing their Canadian business, and becoming the first secure messaging solution to receive Parallels APS 2 certification for the Parallels Automation environment.

HDS announces three new cloud options

October 27, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off

The enhancements to Hitachi Unified Compute Platform which streamline and accelerate the process of building and managing cloud are the big news here for most HDS partners.

BlueData launches software to create Big Data private cloud experience on-prem

September 17, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off

Blue Data says their technology makes it possible to build 100 node Hadoop and Spark clusters in less than ten minutes, and get the same kind of on-premise Big Data as the huge cloud companies at a fraction of the cost.

Sanovi targets FlexPod resellers, MSPs with new program

June 4, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off

Sanovi, an Indian-based maker of disaster recovery software, launches a partner program to deepen its penetration of the North American market.

David Burton, vice president of global marketing at NComputing

NComputing enters desktop-as-a-service market

June 3, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off

Thin-client vendor NComputing sees opportunity for service providers to add desktop-as-a-service capabilities

Is SDN hype holding back networking sales?

SDN hype weighs on networking sales

June 2, 2014 Chris Gonsalves (Channelnomics) Comments Off

Service providers may covet the heady promises being made by SDN and NFV purveyors, but their wait and see approach is harming traditional network sales.