virtualization

Hyperconverged startup Stratoscale gears up for late summer product release

May 15, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

Stratoscale emerged from stealth late last year with some powerful vendor investors, a unique hyperconverged value proposition and a 100 per cent channel strategy. The plan is for the product to be available this summer.

New Dell VDI appliance designed to bring Citrix to smaller customers

May 12, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

At Citrix Synergy, Dell also announced new versions of two related software solutions, Dell Wyse Device Manager 5.5 and Foglight for Virtualization 8.2.

Kaspersky North America channel chief John Murdock

Kaspersky formalizes partner program levels

March 8, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Kaspersky Lab updates its North American partner program to follow the same program framework it uses in Europe and will roll out worldwide.

Citrix is a security company: Citrix Canada’s Michael Murphy

February 25, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

In a wide-ranging discussion of where Citrix is headed in the Canadian market, their country manager also identifies key issues with competition, mobility, storage, and the impact of recent announced changes to the partner program.

Dell announces next generation of XC series converged appliances with Nutanix software

February 25, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

The new offerings benefit from the thirteenth generation of Dell servers, but also have new configurability and support flexibility options which can bring down the price point significantly.

Scale Computing enhances hyperconverged platform interface for SMBs in 6.0 release

February 24, 2015 Mark Cox 1

Scale is placing its bet on the SMB space, and the latest changes to its platform bring more of the simplicity that market wants.

Something for every partner in pre-PEX launches, VMware says

February 2, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off

On the eve of its partner conference, VMware introduces major new releases of vSphere and vSAN, outlines its vision for virtual networking across clouds.