July 20, 2017Mark CoxComments Off on Right Touch at centre of new NetApp Americas channel chief Jeff McCullough’s plans
NetApp’s channel transformation includes the Right Touch Model, introduced for its new fiscal year, designed to better balance NetApp channel resources with its internal sales team.
July 18, 2017Mark CoxComments Off on Scale Computing brings two midmarket hyper-converged appliances to market
The new offerings are more powerful than the appliances Scale has offered before, but they aren’t looking to move upmarket, just satisfy the demand of storage-hungry SMBs and midmarket customers.
There has been a six month lag between D&H signing on Cisco Meraki in the U.S. and its availability in Canada, but the company thinks their partners – many of whom haven’t been selling cloud at all – will find it worth the wait.
June 26, 2017Mark CoxComments Off on Dell EMC distribution-only strategy for X-Series unlikely to portent broader trend
Dell EMC recently made their X-Series network switch products their first distribution-only product, but while they will look at doing this with other products and services, don’t expect it to start a trend.
June 26, 2017Mark CoxComments Off on BackupAssist introduces MSP program into North America
The BackupAssist-as-a-Service program for MSPs makes the Australian-headquartered company a much more forceful player in the North American MSP market.
June 5, 2017Mark CoxComments Off on HPE strengthens small business servers with ClearCenter partnership, reborn MicroServer
The exclusive deal with ClearCenter provides a Linux platform that provides server, networking and gateway functionality, and combined with the HPE ProLiant MicroServer, provides a low-cost offering for small businesses and SOHOs.
May 23, 2017Mark CoxComments Off on Commvault aims to extend market reach with new VM Backup and Recovery trial software
The new version of the software designed for VM environments upgrades the interface, improves DR capability and makes it easier to migrate VM workloads to the cloud.
May 23, 2017Mark CoxComments Off on D&H Canada focuses on western Canada in 2017 initiatives
D&H is opening a new distribution centre in western Canada in a few weeks, and is also adding staff based in the region, and establishing a western Canada event.