Storage

Backup

Cohesity making push into file and object storage market

February 14, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cohesity making push into file and object storage market
Cohesity is looking to move beyond its hyper-converged backup roots with an aggressive drive to attract customers looking for file and object storage as principal use cases.

Channel Programs

New storage incents and rebate changes highlight Dell EMC partner program improvements

February 8, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on New storage incents and rebate changes highlight Dell EMC partner program improvements
The beginning of the new Dell EMC fiscal year in February is always the time for the most significant changes to their partner program, although the company acknowledged the changes this year are more about fine-tuning.

Managed Services

Tintri, Neverfail partner on DRaaS solution

January 16, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Tintri, Neverfail partner on DRaaS solution
The Tintri collaboration provides a packaged replication service for higher tier disaster recovery needs. It will be available through Neverfail partners, and will likely be able to be sold by Tintri partners too.

Channel Programs

Flexxible IT launches multi-tenant Citrix Cloud workspace solution

January 9, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Flexxible IT launches multi-tenant Citrix Cloud workspace solution
U.K.-based Flexxible is growing its presence in North America, and is also introducing their first partner program for North American partners at the Citrix Summit event.

Backup

Veeam announces availability of major new flagship release

December 19, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Veeam announces availability of major new flagship release
The 9.5.3 release contains some major elements which were scheduled to be part of Veeam 10, but which were pushed out now since they are ready to go.

Storage

Cloudian expands beyond object storage with Cloudian HyperFile integrated NAS Controller

December 6, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cloudian expands beyond object storage with Cloudian HyperFile integrated NAS Controller
The integration of full-featured file support to the Cloudian object platform opens them to some new markets – and is also opening them to some new types of channel partners.

Cloud

Datrium announces cloud-native Cloud DVX for backup and recovery for AWS

November 28, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Datrium announces cloud-native Cloud DVX for backup and recovery for AWS
Datrium is offering its backup and DR recovery for the AWS cloud as basically a managed service, where the customer works through the Datrium interface and doesn’t have to learn the intricacies of managing AWS.

Cloud

Komprise deepens relationship with AWS by being named Advanced Tier Technology Partner

November 27, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Komprise deepens relationship with AWS by being named Advanced Tier Technology Partner
Being named an Advanced Tier partner deepens the joint sales relationship between Komprise and AWS, provides access to co-marketing funds, and gives them a dedicated AWS partner manager.

Storage

StorONE formally launches, pledging sub-penny per GB storage

November 22, 2017 Mark Cox 1
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.

Storage

Panasas continues to move beyond HPC with next generation of scale-out NAS

November 8, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Panasas continues to move beyond HPC with next generation of scale-out NAS
The big breakthrough for Panasas here is the new ASD-100 disaggregated Director Blade, which allows metadata to be accessed twice as fast as the previous product generation.