Tag Archive for Software

No change in course planned as Don Mal returns as Vena Solutions CEO

Vena also announces the previously vacant post of CRO has been filled by Neil Thomas, who spent 11 years at Vena competitor Adaptive Insights, most notably as SVP of Worldwide Sales.

Microsoft looks to expand co-selling motion

Gavriella Schuster, corporate vice president of the One Commercial Partner organization at Microsoft

Microsoft’s channel chief discusses the software giant’s plans to expand a program where Microsoft sells partners’ products and services, including hooking partners up to its AppSource store.

AMD touts software development as key in their hardware rebound

Dr. Jeffrey Cheng, the chief software architect at AMD, was just named an AMD fellow. He talks with ChannelBuzz about AMD software’s role in the company’s recent turnaround.

Scale-out NAS vendor Rozo Systems aims to scale up its channel with first partner program

Rozo Systems, which has been based mainly in the media and entertainment vertical, sells entirely through a select partner channel. They are now looking to augment that channel, and to that end, have introduced their first partner program.

StorONE partners with Mellanox to extend sub-penny per GB storage value proposition

StorONE, run by the same team as StorWIZE that IBM bought in 2010, has a 100 per cent channel strategy and is in partner recruitment mode. They expect the partnership with Mellanox will make them appeal to Mellanox partners as well.

Clari expands visibility into early stage sales accounts with new module for machine learning sales platform

Clari Team Activity provides visibility into additional prospects who are not yet considered as pipeline sales opportunities, enabling sales managers to deal with potential problems in real time. and funneling additional data back into a company’s CRM system.

Avaya CEO lays out forceful agenda for reborn company

New Avaya CEO Jim Chirico acknowledged the old Avaya was the equivalent of a team that loses football games by playing a prevent defense, and told the company’s customers and partners that now they have a fundamentally different gameplan.

Data cataloguing vendor Alation adds channels exec to build out partnering strategy

Ken Hoang, best known as the founder and CEO of Siperian, becomes Alation’s first VP of Strategy and Alliances, and is developing a strategy to broaden the Alation go-to-market through a partner ecosystem.

StorONE formally launches, pledging sub-penny per GB storage

The secret sauce of StorONE is software that took six years to engineer, and which produces very low prices by supporting all types of disks, all protocols and storage services in a single layer.

SugarCRM moves up release cadence, introduces shareable dashboards in Fall ’17 release

The new release of the SugarCRM flagship product also modernizes the Email module and lets users drill down into the dashboards for more insights.

Commvault launches ‘disruptive’ new HyperScale software and appliance

HyperScale Software and reference architectures are available for seven different OEMs, while the appliance, on a Commvault-branded server, is aimed at downmarket customers as well as the enterprise.

Tintri unveils all-flash 10TB T1000 for ROBO, departmental and (shhh) SMB deployments

Following the announcement of their new high-end enterprise cloud platform earlier this month, Tintri now announces availability of a much smaller 10 TB system, aimed at smaller deployments within – and quite possibly outside – the enterprise.

Modernization of HPE Data Protector highlights revamp of HPE ABR Suite

The HPE Adaptive Backup and Recovery suite is composed of three products released last year as a unified package, and this release is designed to further that unified vision.