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Software

EMC-VMware VxRail appliance upgrades VSPEX Blue in VCE hyper-converged lineup

February 18, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on EMC-VMware VxRail appliance upgrades VSPEX Blue in VCE hyper-converged lineup
VxRail has the same concept as last year’s unsuccessful EMC first foray into hyperconverged, but is designed to be much more flexible and modular, and benefits greatly from an improved software stack. It will also be available through all EMC partners, not just ones certified on VCE.

Data Centre

Nutanix looks to move beyond hyperconverged with new software release

February 16, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nutanix looks to move beyond hyperconverged with new software release
Nutanix’s 4.6 software release enables key features to its platform announced last summer, as part of their longer-run strategy to be an Amazon-like infrastructure for the enterprise cloud.

Software

AppSense looks to drive more business with revitalized Citrix

January 14, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on AppSense looks to drive more business with revitalized Citrix
The Windows-focused virtualization management optimization vendor provides a detailed update, including their relationship with Citrix and other co-opetitors, their channel policies, and where they see their market going.

Channel Programs

VMware Partner Professional Services Program heralding more investments in emerging techs

December 7, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on VMware Partner Professional Services Program heralding more investments in emerging techs
Programmatic initiatives to back trending areas is something VMware is telling partners they can expect to see more of in 2016.

Avnet Technology Solutions' Gavin Miller
Distribution

Avnet unifies training and support

November 18, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Avnet unifies training and support
With the new Avnet Knowledge Network, the distributor is aiming to bring all of its support and training offerings under the same roof.

Storage

Veeam CEO lays out three-pronged strategy going forward

October 28, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Veeam CEO lays out three-pronged strategy going forward
Deepening enterprise penetration, increasing cloud business, and improving attach rate on partner VMware and Microsoft sales are at the top of Veeam’s agenda for this year.

Storage

SolidFire adds new Dell-VMware reference architecture for virtual infrastructure

October 26, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on SolidFire adds new Dell-VMware reference architecture for virtual infrastructure
The fourth in SolidFire’s series of Agile Infrastructure architectures, this one facilitates the design and deployment of dynamic virtual infrastructure to deliver secure multi-tenancy.

Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell
Cloud

Dell snaps up EMC in $67B US mega-deal

October 13, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Dell snaps up EMC in $67B US mega-deal
Dell and EMC execs say the combined company will be an IT powerhouse from the SMB to the largest enterprise.

Raghu Raghuram, software-defined data centre chief at VMWare.
Data Centre

VMware continues its hyper-converged journey with EVO SDDC

September 4, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off on VMware continues its hyper-converged journey with EVO SDDC
VMware’s new Evo SDDC spec takes its converged architecture play into the high end, aiming to simply create software-defined data centres.

Scott Millard, vice president of Americas channels at EMC.
Channel Programs

EMC introduces Federation-wide cloud partner credential

September 3, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off on EMC introduces Federation-wide cloud partner credential
The new credential provides partners access to deploy the Federation Enterprise Hybrid Cloud, part of a push to create channel program alignment amongst Federation members.