Storage

Ex-NetApp Canada head Goldstein outlines Veeam’s plans to grow in Canada

June 10, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

The new Veeam VP of Sales in Canada said his appointment to the new role is part of Veeam’s intensified commitment to the Canadian market. He indicated his plans to take the company, which sells entirely through channel partners, to the next level here.

Expanded drive, container support highlight HPE 3PAR all-flash upgrades

June 7, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

All-flash has been a many-faceted boon to the channel, and HPE’s new announcements will add some new opportunities for the company’s partners

Dell’s Futuresville 2.0 office looks into crystal ball

June 2, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

Futuresville 2 – Dell’s Chief Technology Office for Enterprise – discussed their work in identifying key trends and co-ordinating responses within Dell, and talked about some of those trends they deem vitally important going forward.

NetApp emphasizes simplicity, flash functionality in ONTAP 9 software

May 31, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

NetApp has also strengthened, and is now giving much greater emphasis to, its flash-focused 3-4-5 guarantee to customers.

Nutanix targets SMB hyper-converged space with Nutanix Xpress

May 24, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

Nutanix is making changes to its channel strategies around this product, including deal registration, to avoid channel confusion. Lenovo and its channel will also play a key role taking Xpress to market.

Tintri launches scale-out all-flash platform for private clouds

May 17, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

The VM-aware storage vendor also announced new predictive analytics capabilities, nine new all-flash model options, and two new cloud offerings.

EMC refines enterprise cloud strategy with Virtustream Storage Cloud

May 3, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

The new Web-scale object storage platform will extend on-prem EMC storage and backup applications into the cloud, and continue the trend of requiring the assistance of more channel partners than had been the case when Virtustream was acquired.

Scale Computing integrates flash into tiering to strengthen SMB hyper-converged offering

May 3, 2016 Mark Cox 1

Scale’s new HEAT technology brings flash into hybrid tiering, with all the performance benefits of using flash for a tier rather than just a cache. The challenge here was not introducing flash, but doing so in a way that would not increase complexity, and would be cost-effective for SMBs.

Datto unveils SMB Sync and Share offering with low cost, free year offer

May 2, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

Datto is looking to disrupt a highly commoditized market, attract a significant number of new prospects for its channel, and provide upgrade options to better monetize the offering.