Storage

Cohesity looks to Revolutionize secondary storage with first channel program

February 18, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

The aim of Cohesity, led by Nutanix’s original co-founder, is to disrupt the secondary storage market the same way Nutanix disrupted primary storage, and through a similar 100 per cent channel model.

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Improved search, all-in-one packaging highlight Caringo’s Swarm 8

February 16, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

Caringo sees its enhanced search capabilities as enabling Swarm’s ability to handle additional tasks, including facilitating Big Data analytics.

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Cloud

Artisan Infrastructure unveils Neverfail HybriStor Data Protection Virtual Appliance

February 10, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

Using patent-pending data optimization and dedupe technology from an acquisition, HybriStor brings enormous scalability and performance to object-based storage.

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HDS moves beyond legacy heritage with scale-out appliance for Big Data and IoT

February 4, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

The Hitachi Hyper Scale-Out Platform, a new, next-generation technology, leverages technology acquired with Pentaho last year to provide an appliance that is aimed at Big Data, Data Lake and Internet of Things use cases now, and at broader use cases once an all-flash version is available later this year.

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New Panzura console interface designed to make it easier to manage global cloud storage

January 28, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

The new CloudFS Console provides a Google Maps view of all controllers and connectivity between them, and is intended to further Panzura’s vision of having customers use cloud storage as their primary storage, by making it easier to use.

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Plexistor’s software-defined memory platform reaches the market

January 26, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

Plexistor’s Software Defined Memory architecture converges memory and storage technologies to drastically reduce latency and significantly improve performance of data-intensive applications.

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How to break away from the break-fix model that’s killing your MSP business

January 18, 2016 Guest Poster Comments Off

Some new year’s advice from Alex Hoff of Auvik Networks on how to get rid of old habits that may be harmful to your MSP business.

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EMC Canada’s channel chief looks ahead to 2016

December 10, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

With major changes on the horizon, Michael Kerr stresses that EMC partners need to be able to articulate the business outcomes of the increasing complex technology available to them.

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HPE debuts composable infrastructure lineup

December 8, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off

HPE shows off the first members of its Synergy family of systems that pool compute, storage, and networking for a more cloud-like data centre.

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Cisco, Nimble Storage extend partnership with new SmartStack offerings

December 2, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

Two of the three new reference architectures are Cisco Validated Design-backed, a first for the SmartStack solutions, which Nimble expects will help partners in several ways.

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HPE announces flurry of 3PAR announcements

November 16, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

Net-new offerings include 3PAR Flash Acceleration for Oracle and the 3PAR StoreServ 8200 Converged File and Block Starter Kit.

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EMC’s shift in Data Lake strategy opens up new partner opportunities

November 13, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

EMC’s Data Lake 2.0 significantly enhances the original core-focused Data Lake strategy by extending it to the edge and the cloud, as well as strengthening the core. This is also likely to expand partner opportunities somewhat beyond the very limited involvement thought likely when the original Data lake was announced.

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HP Inc. announces desktop workstation storage, cooling breakthroughs

November 12, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

While HP announced a new mobile workstation, and major enhancements throughout all their ZBook technology, they also announced some significant technology enhancements in both storage and cooling.

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Tim FitzGerald, vice president of cloud solutions at Avnet Technology Solutions

Avnet opens Cloud Marketplace

November 5, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Avnet Technology Solutions makes its debut in the growing field of distribution cloud marketplaces, offering bundled cloud solutions and self-service Web stores for partners.

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Storage vendor X-IO to go all-channel in new, highly-differentiated partner program

November 4, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

The program offers tiers for exclusive and non-exclusive partners, an Exclusivity Program rather than deal registration, and high margins. Their Canadian partners have not been very active in the recent past, but a drive in Canada to change that and expand the channel is forthcoming.

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Nutanix adds another big strategic partnership with Lenovo deal

November 4, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

Nutanix sees the Lenovo deal as equal in importance to the Dell one inked last year and said its announcement shortly after Dell’s purchase of EMC is a coincidence. The plan is to get jointly branded products to market through Lenovo in Q1 of 2016.

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Dell beefs up its top of the line SC enterprise arrays

October 26, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

AUSTIN — High-end enterprise arrays from EMC may be on the way, but the highest-end storage arrays in today’s Dell inventory received a major boost this at Dell World. The Dell Storage SC9000, which replaces […]

Dell expands Nutanix XC series with two new models

October 22, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

Dell introduces both its first all-flash appliances and a high-density offering in its popular XC hyperconverged series which combine Dell hardware and Nutanix software.

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