Newly spun-off this year, NexGen has made major changes to its channel program to strengthen its support of partners.
Channel Programs, Storage
Reborn NexGen looks to make a splash with revamped partner program
by Mark Cox •
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Channel Programs, Data Centre, Storage
New EMC Federation deal reg, rules of engagement to be launched
by Mark Cox •
EMC is also announcing several other programmatic moves, including a Federation Ready designation and expanding EMC’s EMC Ready sales transformation initiative to partners. Their EMC True loyalty program pilot is now being publicized and expanded globally.
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Data Centre, Partnerships
Why heresy is good business strategy: Dell’s Armughan Ahmad
by Mark Cox •
Digital disruption is intensifying IT democratization, and Dell is responding with a datacentre strategy which some competitors likely consider heresy, but which Dell believes is the wave of the future.
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Servers, Software
SanDisk enhances solid state caching software, unveils new bundles
by Mark Cox •
Nine separate bundles across the Windows, VMware and Linux platforms give SanDisk a broad range of “device+software” solutions for server-side solid-state caching.
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Big Data, Data Centre, Storage
EMC Federation Business Data Lake to be strong play for top partners
by Mark Cox •
The Federation Business Data Lake greatly expands EMC’s converged Big Data offerings, and while only EMC’s more sophisticated partners will likely be able to sell it, it will be available to them.
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Virtualization
3D apps, desktop Linux support among VMware Horizon 6 innovations
by Mark Cox •
VMware still trails Citrix in the virtual desktop space, and is trying to make up ground by emphasizing some of the new and enhanced features that are unique to Horizon 6.
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Cloud, Storage
Intronis slashes image-based recovery times with Winter 2015 release
by Mark Cox •
The improved functionality will help Intronis partners have discussions with customers about providing higher-value recovery strategies rather than simply selling storage.
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Mobility, Virtualization
Citrix is a security company: Citrix Canada’s Michael Murphy
by Mark Cox •
In a wide-ranging discussion of where Citrix is headed in the Canadian market, their country manager also identifies key issues with competition, mobility, storage, and the impact of recent announced changes to the partner program.
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Data Centre
Nutanix adds Canadian channel sales director
by Robert Dutt •
Frank Czyz, new Canadian channel chief at Nutanix, looks to replicate the hyperconverged vendor’s U.S. success in getting closer to top partners.
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Cloud, Storage
Asigra broadens converged data protection in Version 13
by Mark Cox •
The long-time cloud backup solution’s new features include Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service enablement, open infrastructure support for FreeBSD on ZFS and CentOS, and integration with Linear Tape File System for archiving.
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Cloud, Virtualization
Something for every partner in pre-PEX launches, VMware says
by Robert Dutt •
On the eve of its partner conference, VMware introduces major new releases of vSphere and vSAN, outlines its vision for virtual networking across clouds.
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Data Centre, Podcasts, Sponsored Content
New Year’s Podcast Series: Anton Granic of Nutanix Canada
by Robert Dutt •
Nutanix Canada director Anton Granic joins the podcast to discuss the year that was 2014 and offer his predictions and thoughts for 2015.
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Podcasts
Podcast: The CIO’s view, backups for virtualization, CTO predictions
by Robert Dutt •
Avnet CIO Steve Phillips, Storagecraft channel manager Shawn Massey, and Hitachi Data Systems CTO Hu Yoshida on this edition of the ChannelBuzz.ca Podcast.
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Data Centre, Storage
Pure Storage enters converged infrastructure market with all-flash FlashStack solutions
by Mark Cox •
Two solutions were announced, both of which use Cisco and VMware as partners, but more converged all-flash solutions are coming from Pure, and these will use additional vendor partners as well.
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Operating Systems, Storage
Pure Storage joins OpenStack Foundation, announces two OpenStack solutions
by Mark Cox •
Pure sees OpenStack as providing a great services opportunity to help customers adapt OpenStack for private clouds, since it is necessary to help them adapt OpenStack to different customer circumstances.
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Distribution
Tech Data’s full StreamOne coming to Canada
by Robert Dutt •
Tech Data will bring its full StreamOne cloud, SaaS and app store to Canada in the next month as it continues to take the platform global.
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Data Centre
EMC’s Federation debuts joint SDDC solution
by Robert Dutt •
The Federation of EMC, VMware, and Pivotal debuts the first of five planned joint solutions, offering an easier path to the software-defined data centre.
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Managed Services, Storage
Storagecraft doubles down on management
by Robert Dutt •
With its own control platform built out, and new hooks into key RMM vendors, Storagecraft is focused on management as it looks to larger customers.
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Cloud, Data Centre
Dimension Data launches Canadian cloud data centre
by Mark Cox •
In certain sectors, a Canadian cloud data centre is now a de facto requirement, especially in the public sector, health care and financial services, because while it may not be a regulatory requirement, it has become mandatory in many RFPs.
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Cloud, Data Centre
Nutanix welcomes VMware to hyper-converged fray
by Robert Dutt •
With new funding and new markets to tap, Nutanix sees the debut of VMware’s Evo family of products as evidence for further convergence of infrastructure.
