Programmatic initiatives to back trending areas is something VMware is telling partners they can expect to see more of in 2016.
With the new Avnet Knowledge Network, the distributor is aiming to bring all of its support and training offerings under the same roof.
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.
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 and EMC execs say the combined company will be an IT powerhouse from the SMB to the largest enterprise.
VMware’s new Evo SDDC spec takes its converged architecture play into the high end, aiming to simply create software-defined data centres.
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.
New Certified Partner Architectures under the VMware Validated Design program provide partners a route to building their own data centre stacks.
VMware’s new North American structure will mean access to new resources to help Canadian partners evolve their services play, Donna Wittmann says.
DataGravity, which is available to the Canadian channel through Ingram Micro, is run by the team who created Equallogic, and offers data security, search and data protection in a single storage platform.
Hotlink has a unique solution which leverages VMware vCenter to easily manage non-VMware assets in the datacentre, and while their channel is still small, they are aggressively looking to expand it.
The distributor’s major announcement at CompTIA is not, however, available in Canada yet.
In part one of a two-part feature, Avnet Technology Solutions’ Kevin Johnson takes a look at what makes a software-defined data center.
Four specializations are being announced, one of which is around OpenStack, which SolidFire believes is an industry first. .
The virtualized performance management solutions startup has made unsuccessful channel initiatives before, but now armed with personnel and resources to execute, they are looking to enlist Citrix and VMware partners with professional services practices – and for the first time, MSPs.
VMware sees opportunities for its traditional partners, AirWatch partners, and new types of partners with new Identity Manager.
Acropolis combines Nutanix’s flagship Distributed Storage Fabric with their own hypervisor and a new app mobility fabric which will decouple apps from their hypervisor, let users use the Nutanix hypervisor, and massively cut their virtualization costs. Prism complements it with simple management. Acropolis and Prism make up the new Xtreme Computing Platform.
This solution, using the McAfee Network Security Platform, starts with market leader VMware, but will eventually cover the others in the space. And while this Intrusion Prevention solution is the first to be rolled out, the plan is to extend the platform to cover Intel Security’s other virtual infrastructure products.
Virtustream will form the basis of EMC’s managed cloud services business, and will be sold both direct and through service provider and integrator partners.
Dell becomes the first vendor to offer a hyper-converged end-to-end VDI appliance for EVO:RAIL, which becomes its fifth different VDI appliance in five months, as the company intensifies its emphasis on the space
