Chad Dunn, who runs HCI product management at Dell EMC, thinks the stars are aligned for hyperconverged to continue its breakneck growth rates this year
Data Centre, Servers, Storage
Why hyperconverged won’t slow down in 2019: Dell EMC
by Mark Cox •
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Partnerships, Storage
HPE, Datera partner on ‘ScaleIO-killer’ solution
by Mark Cox •
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, Data Centre, Virtualization
Address scary change with fearless, optimistic change: Dell Technologies
by Mark Cox •
Pivotal executive and proud tech geek Chad Sakac gave the keynote at the Dell Technologies Forum in Toronto on Tuesday, deconstructing the present process of technological change, and counselling customers on a strategy of how to address scary change that transcended the Dell companies, which involves embracing change in their companies and providing ways to encourage it from the bottom up.
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Artificial Intelligence, Backup, Storage
Veritas partners with Pure Storage on joint solution around Pure’s data hub architecture
by Mark Cox •
The joint solution is targeted at larger customers, and will initially go to market through a select number of the two companies’ joint channel partners, before having its availability broadened out subsequently.
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Backup, Storage
Hedvig and Veeam partner around next-generation of backup
by Mark Cox •
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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Partnerships
HPE focuses Pathfinder venture strategy on HPE edge and AI priorities
by Mark Cox •
HPE Pathfinder head Vishall Lall discusses the company’s venture funding strategy moving forward and how it is increasingly synced with HPE’s strategic initiatives.
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Internet of Things
HPE upgrades Edgeline IOT devices with new storage capacity, and announces validations of their ability to run uncompromised apps at the edge
by Mark Cox •
HPE has beefed up their edge IoT devices with more storage capacity, and announced validation of the ability of these devices to run high capacity solutions at the edge, by software vendors ranging from industry titans to high-flying startups
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Data Centre, Distribution, Storage
EXCLUSIVE: Maxta to offer pre-configured HCI appliances through Arrow
by Mark Cox •
In a related announcement, Maxta announces a new relationship with large account reseller Connection, which will be able to leverage these new pre-configured appliances.
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Storage
Scality introduces new 3-server HPE Apollo configurations for lower entry point
by Mark Cox •
The new configurations were facilitated by some of the enhancements in the new Scality RING 7.4 software, which has improving ease of use as its primary focus.
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Storage
New DataCore leadership team rethinks approach to market to drive growth agenda
by Mark Cox •
DataCore has a new CEO, Dave Zabrowski, and a new CMO, Gerardo Dada. They were brought in to drive the company to a leadership position that has eluded the company to date, and discuss with ChannelBuzz their strategy to bring this about.
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Servers, Virtualization
Dell EMC makes HCI appliances available on PowerEdge 14th gen servers
by Mark Cox •
In addition to the souped-up servers, Dell EMC has also simplified the ordering process by which partners acquire these HCI appliances.
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Partnerships, Storage
Scality, HPE expand partnership with new HPE Apollo 4000 integration
by Mark Cox •
The enhancement of an existing relationship between the two companies sees the jointly engineered appliance get a new unified management interface.
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Storage
ioFABRIC adds cost optimization capability to pooled automatic data fabric solution
by Mark Cox •
Toronto startup ioFABRIC has refined its messaging to focus on customer concerns about clouds and hybrid clouds, and backed that up by extending their solution’s capability with Vicinity 3.0.
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Data Centre, Partnerships
Dell EMC publicly recommits to Nutanix partnership
by Mark Cox •
While the Dell EMC merger has raised speculation about the future of their relationship with Nutanix, Dell EMC forcefully stated at Nutanix .NEXT that the relationship is solid and will continue.
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Cloud, Data Centre
HPE unveils Project New Stack as top end of expanded HPE composable strategy
by Mark Cox •
HPE formally announces its project to extend HPE Synergy to the full hybrid IT environment, which is still known by its internal code name, and which is still in the tech preview stage, but should reach beta in the fall. The company hopes it will be ready to sell by December.
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Partnerships, Storage
Hedvig’s distributed storage platform now available through HPE Complete program
by Mark Cox •
The Hedvig software-defined technology collapses disparate tiers of storage and unifies block, file, and object interfaces in a single platform, providing HPE and its partners with a capability not otherwise available to them through HPE.
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Storage
Coho Data converged solution with HPE and Arista publicly launches
by Mark Cox •
Coho Data, which has recently reworked itself into a software-defined vendor, has just launched a converged turnkey solution through the HPE Complete program.
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Storage
Entry into hyper-converged market highlights multiple major NetApp announcements
by Mark Cox •
Other highlights include the new version of their ONTAP software, a new usage-based consumption option to purchase infrastructure, enhancing their OCI software, and expanding their free controller upgrade program to credits for a broader array of NetApp purchases.
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Storage
Lenovo DSS-G software-defined storage solution to be more channel-friendly
by Mark Cox •
The pre-integrated solution combines IBM’s Spectrum Scale software with Lenovo servers, and is the first of multiple related software-defined solutions Lenovo will announce this year.
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Storage
Red Hat looks to ramp up channel storage business
by Robert Dutt •
Red Hat continues looks to the channel to help grow its high-value storage business, but knows it needs to help partners get started.
