Storage

HPE adding to end-to-end solutions portfolio with HPE Complete program

June 12, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

HPE created its program to validate other vendor solutions and sell them through HPE late last year, and the program has exceeded expectations so far.

TCO enhancements highlight upgrades to Hitachi Content Platform portfolio

June 12, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

The big improvements are to software and hardware capabilities on the core Hitachi Content Platform and to the Hitachi Data Ingestor Platform.

Synnex: Westcon buy is distie deal with little overlap

June 8, 2017 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Synnex purchases Westcon Comstor’s North American business, gets access to new key vendors, including Cisco.

Exclusive: New Cohesity channel chief Todd Palmer on his move from Palo Alto

May 12, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

Palmer discusses why he joined the high-flying startup, as well as the measures he wants to take to enhance Cohesity’s global 100 per cent channel strategy.

New flexible consumption models, incumbency protection highlight Dell EMC channel changes

May 9, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

Partner presence at this year’s event increased massively over anything at either the Dell or EMC events, or the initial joint event in Austin last fall.

Elastifile brings high performance flash-native hybrid cloud data infrastructure to market

April 5, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

Elastifile leverages its distributed metadata model to produce a scale-out, flash-native distributed file system that provides both storage and data lifecycle management.

ARM hyper-converged vendor KALEAO enlists Vancouver’s Tuangru as key channel partner

March 31, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

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 announces NETArchive Version 2

March 27, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

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 refreshes enterprise NAS offering with TS-1685

March 22, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

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.