Robotic Process Automation vendor UiPath ups commitment to partners with two new partner-focused initiatives

UiPath, a red-hot player in the robotic process automation space, is ramping up their channel business to accelerate the momentum that has taken them from $1 million to $100M in annual recurring revenue in less than 21 months, and are also announcing a new channel program.

Splunk CEO Merritt: Splunk opportunities riding the crest of a technology explosion

Doug Merritt, Splunk’s President and CEO, kicked off the Splunk .conf18 event in Orlando by emphasizing the congruence between the company’s greatest wave of innovation ever, and the time in the market when the pace of change and the ability to tap into the monstrous mess that is contemporary data are at their peak of importance.

Cohesity adds service provider component to expanded partner program with significantly more resources

Cohesity has doubled the amount of dollars allocated to their partner program, with new perks like rebates for sales to very large customers and formalized and expanded MDF. They have also established a model for service providers within the program, which provides mechanisms like consumption-based pricing suited to this business model.

Hitachi Vantara adds agility to data centre portfolio with hyperconverged, converged portfolio upgrades

The HCI part of the portfolio introduces the first NVMe offering, while new support on the CI side was announced that will support very large deployments, and a refresh of the Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Advisor’s management and orchestration software was announced.

New Edge sync file services highlight broad Hitachi Content Platform upgrades

Hitachi Content Platform, which is fundamental to Hitachi Vantara’s second step in their Stairway to Value by enriching data and providing compliance safeguards, gets some important integration upgrades, but the showier part of this announcement is around the sync variant, HCP Anywhere, which now has an Edge capability that broadens its use case into both IoT and larger ROBO environments.