Tag Archive for Software-Defined Storage

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.

Address scary change with fearless, optimistic change: Dell Technologies

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.

Veritas partners with Pure Storage on joint solution around Pure’s data hub architecture

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.

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.

HPE upgrades Edgeline IOT devices with new storage capacity, and announces validations of their ability to run uncompromised apps at the edge

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

EXCLUSIVE: Maxta to offer pre-configured HCI appliances through Arrow

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.

New DataCore leadership team rethinks approach to market to drive growth agenda

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.

ioFABRIC adds cost optimization capability to pooled automatic data fabric solution

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.

Dell EMC publicly recommits to Nutanix partnership

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.

HPE unveils Project New Stack as top end of expanded HPE composable strategy

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.

Hedvig’s distributed storage platform now available through HPE Complete program

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.

Entry into hyper-converged market highlights multiple major NetApp announcements

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.

Lenovo DSS-G software-defined storage solution to be more channel-friendly

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.