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Ross Brown, senior vice president of partners and alliances for VMware

VMware sees momentum from deal reg, incentives changes

August 30, 2016 Robert Dutt Comments Off

VMware says partners are more engaged, selling more and more often after changes to deal registration and a shift on partner incentives.

Artisan Infrastructure improves VMware vCenter Server support in its IT Continuity Engine

December 8, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

VMware’s decision to stop OEMing the Artisan’s Neverfail technology for VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat has led Artisan to provide such capabilities in its core product, including application protection for vCloud Server Virtual Machines.

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

VMware continues its hyper-converged journey with EVO SDDC

September 4, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off

VMware’s new Evo SDDC spec takes its converged architecture play into the high end, aiming to simply create software-defined data centres.

Something for every partner in pre-PEX launches, VMware says

February 2, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off

On the eve of its partner conference, VMware introduces major new releases of vSphere and vSAN, outlines its vision for virtual networking across clouds.

Matt Urmston, director of product management at Storagecraft

Storagecraft doubles down on management

September 15, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off

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.

VMware channel chief Dave O'Callaghan (left) and president and COO Carl Eschenbach (right).

VMware cuts partners in on ELAs, services

August 27, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off

VMware says the company and its partners have to build closer customer relationships, outlines upcoming program changes to help partners make it happen.

VMware president and COO Carl Eschenbach

VMware adds $10B to expected TAM

August 26, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off

VMware sees growth in cloud and end user computing, and tells partners it has to shift its sales motion as it becomes much more than a one-product company.

EMC adds RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines

August 26, 2014 Mark Cox 1

The biggest attraction for the channel here is likely to be its integration with VSPEX, when that is available in Q4.

Donna Wittmann, exeuctive director, channels, alliances and commercial sales, VMware Canada

VMware launches VSAN for storage virtualization

March 17, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off

VMware calls its new Virtual SAN product the third pillar of the software-defined data centre, cementing its transformation to “virtualized everything.”