Elastifile leverages its distributed metadata model to produce a scale-out, flash-native distributed file system that provides both storage and data lifecycle management.
KALEAO, which first brought product to market last October, provides an update of both its overall and channel strategies, and where Tuangru fits in.
Alliance Storage Technologies makes multi-tiered storage, with the secret sauce being an optical storage specialization. The new version has significant capacity increases over the old.
QNAP replaces its TS-1080 with a new, beefier model, which will give its channel a more robust offering for customers who want enterprise capacity, but who have space issues.
Expansion into Canada is among the objectives from the new cash infusion from Reduxio’s Series C funding.
Veeam is the first availability vendor to be deeply integrated with the new 2.0 version of Cisco’s HyperFlex hyper-converged platform, which will be good news for joint Veeam and Cisco partners.
Panzura is looking to its new partner program to both recruit and support a select partner base that can sell its new Freedom solutions, which are focused on the cloud NAS-space.
The high-flying startup, which sells entirely through the channel, also announced a Series B funding which raised $12 million.
Memory, performance and capacity have been increased, with capacity on the physical models going up from 100 per cent in the entry level appliances, to between 15-30 per cent in the high end ones.
IBM announces all-flash versions of its full DS8880 portfolio, but for the channel, impact is likely to be slight because compared to other IBM storage families, this one has a more limited partner presence.
Storagecraft’s new partner program introduces partner tiers as the company sees more demand from larger partners serving larger customers.
Over the last year, NetApp has reshaped its channel strategy extensively, and will soon cap it with a new Hard Deck policy. Unlike a similar named policy of an old competitor, NetApp thinks this one will be highly popular with partners.
The entry-level V Series, with a starting street price of $12,000 – a third of the original S Series – should open up new markets, especially in security, while the high-end P Series is aimed at larger users in the markets served by system integrators.
SVA Software is looking to enlist 25-30 top IBM storage resellers to sell their BVQ storage management solution, which will go to market entirely through partners.
Tegile says its new scale-out platform, with flash prices starting at about 50 cents/GB, will make on-prem flash cheaper than the public cloud and thus give channel partners a powerful weapon.
Sammy Kinlaw reviews Lenovo’s recently concluded quarter in North America and indicates their initiatives going forward, including a new distribution agreement for the Motorola products.
Caringo has developed a patent-pending process that eliminates the need for a gateway by connecting the NFS server directly to the Object Storage. This significantly cuts costs and improves efficiency, opening up new use cases that Caringo believes will mainstream object storage.
The AF1000 takes Nimble into the sub-$40k range for an all-flash array, which certainly isn’t the cheapest available on the market, but does offer a broad range of services and analytics.
A new reseller agreement between the companies will see this integration of Cisco Metapod with SwiftStack 4.0 software become available to the Cisco channel.
The on-prem specialist announces it will make a belated entry into the cloud backup space, to allow existing partners to get both their on-prem and cloud products from a single vendor, and to expand their partner base among MSPs.
