Cisco and Veeam partnered around HyperFlex over a year ago around a direct snapshot integration for HyperFlex primary storage. Now they are extending that partnership with a new integration on the secondary side that leverages enhancements made in HyperFlex 3.0.
Pure Storage channel chief Michael Sotnick also highlighted strong company momentum in the Canadian market.
HPE rolls out the Cisco-based version of the next-gen 32GB FC switch, following the launch of the Brocade-based B-series last month.
The new Tech Data Canada shopping site boasts new design and features, and sets the stage for greater integration across the distributor’s business in the future.
Cisco says it will open up its DNA Center to managing other vendors’ gear as it moves to make the intent-based networking hub an open platform for network innovation.
Cisco introduces DevNet Ecosystem Exchange to help expose software built around its platform and APIs as its developer community ranks rise past 500,000.
The vertical solution is FlexPod Datacenter for Epic EHR, and the short-range strategy is to roll out additional solutions for the health care vertical – including additional ones for EHR – and then move to other verticals.
The new configurations were facilitated by some of the enhancements in the new Scality RING 7.4 software, which has improving ease of use as its primary focus.
AIRI Mini is a joint engineering initiative between Pure and NVIDIA that provides an AI-focused solution with much less compute capability than AIRI, announced in March. It thus has a much lower entry point, and the companies think it will lead to strong interactions between infrastructure teams and data scientists.
Veeam CEO Peter McKay credited Veeam’s expansion of their strategic relationships as critical to their success in 2017, and indicated they plan significant further expansion here going forward.
The new StorMagic appliance, leveraging its relationship with two of their strategic partners, will go to market through the Cisco channel.
Some things for partners to think about in their collaboration business, as Cisco aligns its lineup under the WebEx brand.
Cisco will bring its collaboration lineup into one package, with a common backend and under the WebEx brand.
Cisco announces it will make its routing portfolio available on a subscription basis, and on a promo basis, will make ISR hardware free for customers with a five-year subscription.
StorMagic announced a new strategic relationship around Schneider Electric’s APC products this week, the latest step in a strategy of building out a 100 per cent channel model and strategic partnerships that the company thinks has it poised for even more explosive growth.
The expansion of Commvault go-to-market abilities with HPE comes on the heels of the expansion of theirInfinidat technology integration into a go-to-market relationship, and last year’s similar agreement with Cisco.
While in the old Dell EMC converged lineup, a System 1000 would have been a new high-end model, the new VXBlock completely restructures the approach, and integrates all storage types in one offering. It makes this a single-model family with additional flexibility, greater cost efficiencies and simplified lifecycle management.
New global channel chief Owen Taraniuk pledges more global expansion, more expanded strategic partnerships like the one announced last year with Cisco, and changes that will make it easier for partners to become proficient with Commvault.
Cisco Canada channel chief Mark Collins shares his thoughts on 2017 in review, and offers a preview of what’s to come from the networking giant in 2018.
Nectar creates a new Chief Revenue Officer position to coordinate the company’s different channel routes to market.
