Storagecraft channel sales manager Shawn Massey recaps 2014 in DR, and offers his preview for what his company, and the industry, will accomplish in 2015.
While NexGen’s R&D and overall sales benefitted significantly from being part of larger companies, moving forward they believe they will be in a stronger position to satisfy customers as a separate company.
The enhanced horsepower in the Gen 4 MSA facilitates needed upgrades like Archive Tiering and Performance Tier options, a new SSD Read Cache feature to better utilize flash, and thin provisioning.
The Dell Storage SC 4020 all-flash array is a less expensive follow-up to Dell’s Flash Optimized Solution from last year, while the PS4210, which replaces the PS4110 and PS4100 in the Dell EqualLogic lineup, is targeted at the entry-level customer, but has some other market potential.
Dell announced a series of new and enhanced programs to continue to drive channel growth, which for the first time has passed 40 per cent of total Dell revenues.
Dot Hill is emphasizing enhancement to their autonomic tiering in this release, which they say gives them a boost over competitors, and allows them to offer the best price-performance balance for the mid-market.
The enhancements to Hitachi Unified Compute Platform which streamline and accelerate the process of building and managing cloud are the big news here for most HDS partners.
The Federation of EMC, VMware, and Pivotal debuts the first of five planned joint solutions, offering an easier path to the software-defined data centre.
The solution provider looks to capitalize on a trend where 70 per cent of private cloud adopters will utilize third parties to manage their environments.
The major focus of the new releases is removing significant barriers to adoption, notably greatly reducing storage costs, and adding FIPS certification.
The enterprise SSD space is a very congested one, but BiTMICRO believes that it can differentiate itself from this crowded field because while they focus on IOPS, BiTMICRO focuses on capacity.
Their CacheAdvance application acceleration software delivers high performance while using only a fraction of flash capacity required by other solutions.
The partnership creates a unified storage system that will let distributed offices and mobile employees access a single global fileshare which makes collaboration and centralized data protection possible.
Seagate NAS Pro line includes everything from fully loaded to completely diskless for VARs who prefer to specify their own storage for customers’ NASes.