virtualization

Channel Programs

Tintri upgrades partner program, distribution network to reflect growth

April 6, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Tintri upgrades partner program, distribution network to reflect growth
Tintri makes several significant changes to its channel program reflecting its broader solution range and partner base, and adds Promark to Arrow for its North American distribution.

Cloud

Customers still in early stages in digital business transformation: EMC-VMware study

March 21, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Customers still in early stages in digital business transformation: EMC-VMware study
A new report from EMC and VMware has data on enterprise digital transformation that, except in virtualization, shows customers are far, far short of where they want to be. The sunny side of the story is that many are taking moves to get there.

Channel Programs

LANDESK CEO Steve Daly discusses what AppSense deal means to companies, partners

March 15, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on LANDESK CEO Steve Daly discusses what AppSense deal means to companies, partners
Daly talks about how the deal will change offerings and markets available to both LANDESK and AppSense partners, and how the integration of the two channels is likely to roll out.

Cloud

Pure Storage unveils FlashBlade all-flash platform for petabyte-scale unstructured data

March 14, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pure Storage unveils FlashBlade all-flash platform for petabyte-scale unstructured data
In addition to the FlashBlade, which becomes Pure’s new high end offering, the company also introduced the FlashArray//m10, a new entry level extension, to its FlashArray//m family, as well as several new FlashStack converged infrastructure solutions.

Software

Oracle rival TmaxSoft looking to expand Canadian channel

March 11, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Oracle rival TmaxSoft looking to expand Canadian channel
TmaxSoft, whose value proposition is feature parity and a better price than database management incumbents, opened a Canadian office in January, and is actively looking to add strong partners in Canada.

Distribution

PernixData looks to Promark for first general North American distribution deal

March 3, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on PernixData looks to Promark for first general North American distribution deal
PernixData has dealt direct with its channel in the past, but believes the time is right to take on distribution to accelerate sales of its software that improves the efficiency of storage in virtualized environments.

Data Centre

Cisco joins hyperconverged fray

March 1, 2016 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Cisco joins hyperconverged fray
With Hyperflex, Cisco says it is aiming to plug some holes in current hyperconverged offerings, extend the territory of its UCS converged infrastructure line.

Networking

Scale Computing partners with Mellanox to add networking to hyper-converged solution

February 23, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Scale Computing partners with Mellanox to add networking to hyper-converged solution
Adding networking to the server, storage and virtualization capabilities of their HC3 solution gives Scale a complete bundle that responds to customer requests for such an addition.

Software

TmaxSoft targets Oracle databases with Red Hat partnership

February 16, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on TmaxSoft targets Oracle databases with Red Hat partnership
The company, based in Korea but with U.S. offices in Chicago, has made a major push in North America in the last year, looking to both strategic vendor and channel reseller partners to drive its Tibero databases into Oracle’s market.

Small Business

HPE enhances entry level MSA 1040 and StoreEasy storage

February 9, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE enhances entry level MSA 1040 and StoreEasy storage
The addition of SSD support to the HPE MSA 1040 also enables software enhancements which have been available on the flagship MSA 2040, and removes much of the feature gap between the two models.