virtualization

VMware Canada country manager Sean Forkan
Channel Programs

VMware Canada transitioning to “channel-first mindset”

August 29, 2017 Robert Dutt Comments Off on VMware Canada transitioning to “channel-first mindset”
VMware Canada moves to get partner more involved in more sales, earlier in the process, as the longstanding “channel tax” is scrapped.

Storage

HDS expands VMware partnership with rack-scale platform powered by VMware Cloud Foundation

August 28, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on HDS expands VMware partnership with rack-scale platform powered by VMware Cloud Foundation
HDS also announced that their hyper-converged Hitachi UCP HC platform has been upgraded with the new Intel processors and NVMe memory support.

Storage

Tintri adds AWS and IBM cloud support, and compute analytics

August 16, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Tintri adds AWS and IBM cloud support, and compute analytics
The new enhancements make multiple software-based upgrades to the Tintri platform.

Channel Programs

Cloudistics enhances platform that takes on VMware ecosystem with on-prem cloud

August 11, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cloudistics enhances platform that takes on VMware ecosystem with on-prem cloud
The Cloudistics 3.2 release makes significant security and networking enhancements, and will be followed by some notable channel-side announcements next week.

VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger at VMworld 2014.
Internet of Things

VMware’s Gelsinger seeks to do the ‘boring, hard’ parts of IOT

July 11, 2017 Robert Dutt Comments Off on VMware’s Gelsinger seeks to do the ‘boring, hard’ parts of IOT
VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger discusses how the Internet of Things will empower “a beautiful competition of business models” and why security is “a screwed-up industry.”

Backup

Nutanix, Veeam turn their relationship into a partnership

June 29, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nutanix, Veeam turn their relationship into a partnership
Veeam will support Nutanix, for the first time, by the end of the year, and Nutanix will promote Veeam as their premier availability vendor.

Backup

Commvault aims to extend market reach with new VM Backup and Recovery trial software

May 23, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Commvault aims to extend market reach with new VM Backup and Recovery trial software
The new version of the software designed for VM environments upgrades the interface, improves DR capability and makes it easier to migrate VM workloads to the cloud.

Computers

NComputing’s new RX-HDX thin client looks to bring Raspberry Pi to the enterprise

May 23, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on NComputing’s new RX-HDX thin client looks to bring Raspberry Pi to the enterprise
The new NComputing RH-HDX thin client boasts enterprise device management and dual monitor support capabilities, addressing two key enterprise concerns where Raspberry Pi 3 had been lacking.

Backup

DataGravity announces DataGravity for Availability to enhance Veeam

May 18, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on DataGravity announces DataGravity for Availability to enhance Veeam
DataGravity for Availability is a separate product that sits on top of Veeam, and provides it with a behavior-driven security capability. For now, it only works with Veeam, but the plan is to ultimately extend it to other vendors.

Backup

Hyper-V specialist backup vendor Altaro officially launches in North America

April 10, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Hyper-V specialist backup vendor Altaro officially launches in North America
Malta-based Altaro simultaneously announced the version 7 of their VM Backup, which was originally a Hyper-V backup solution, but has also supported VMware environments since Version 6.