virtualization

Storage

EMC adds RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines

August 26, 2014 Mark Cox 1
The biggest attraction for the channel here is likely to be its integration with VSPEX, when that is available in Q4.

Supermicro EVO Rail hardware with VMware
Data Centre

VMware introduces first hyper-converged infrastructure

August 25, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off on VMware introduces first hyper-converged infrastructure
VMware works with hardware partners to introduce Evo:Rail, a “hyper-converged infrastucture” offering that aims to make hybrid IT easier for enterprises.

Data Centre

Avnet adds VCE competitor Nutanix to line card

August 8, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Avnet adds VCE competitor Nutanix to line card
Nutanix makes a Virtual Computing Platform which partners can use to design and develop converged compute and storage infrastructure for virtualized data centres.

Eric Krauss, Director Channel Sales and Business Development, for IronKey by Imation
Uncategorized

Imation targets Windows to Go solution providers in major IronKey channel program redo

July 14, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Imation targets Windows to Go solution providers in major IronKey channel program redo
Imation sees a strongly developing market for Windows to Go, and wants partners with the right Microsoft competencies.

Anton Granic, Senior Director, Nutanix Canada.
Data Centre

Nutanix tackling Canadian data centre infrastructure market

July 8, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nutanix tackling Canadian data centre infrastructure market
Storage contender Nutanix is finding its niche in Canada, growing to 16 people in 16 months and bucking the trend of managing Canada from the U.S.

Citrix CEO Mark Templeton
Software

Challenged Citrix sticks with CEO Templeton

July 4, 2014 Larry Walsh (Channelnomics) Comments Off on Challenged Citrix sticks with CEO Templeton
Virtualization software vendor Citrix Systems announced CEO Mark Templeton would not retire as previously announced

Sam Greenblatt, CTO of the Dell Enterprise Solutions Group.
Data Centre

Dell unveils four new enterprise appliances

June 26, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell unveils four new enterprise appliances
Dell has introduced four new appliances, in partnership with Nutanix, Cloudera, Oracle and Fusion-IO.

David Maffei, vice president of global channel sales at Carbonite
Cloud

Carbonite launches first channel-only product

June 19, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Carbonite launches first channel-only product
Carbonite Appliance HT10 first purpose-built for channel product to launch in vendor’s shift from direct to indirect sales.

Greg Holzrichter, vice president of global marketing at Atlantis Computing.
Storage

Atlantis Computing releases ILIO bundle for VMware Virtual SAN

June 5, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Atlantis Computing releases ILIO bundle for VMware Virtual SAN
Atlantis Computing, which makes solutions that optimize virtual storage, has announced the release of a new bundle, Atlantis ILIO for Virtual SAN.

David Burton, vice president of global marketing at NComputing
Virtualization

NComputing enters desktop-as-a-service market

June 3, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on NComputing enters desktop-as-a-service market
Thin-client vendor NComputing sees opportunity for service providers to add desktop-as-a-service capabilities