George Kurian was appointed interim CEO last week after the company's board took the reins off incumbent Tom Georgens, following poor financial results
storage
Cloudian builds EMEA channel with senior appointments
The US provider of hybrid cloud data storage solutions has appointed a sales director and a technical director to drive its EMEA channel efforts
Tegile raises $70m to help tackle European flash storage market
Tegile plans to double the number of its employees, scale up operations and further expand its reseller channel to satisfy rising European demand
Avnet launches UK converged infrastructure practice
Solutions can be built to order across EMEA from Avnet’s facility in Tongeren, Belgium, which is certified to the relevant levels required by its supplier partners
Lenovo unveils new storage arrays for the channel
The Lenovo Storage S2200 and S3200 deliver Intelligent Real-Time Tiering, which automatically moves frequently accessed data to higher performing drives every five seconds
Dot Hill signs OEM storage distribution deal with Arrow
Arrow will offer Dot Hill’s full line of AssuredSAN storage arrays, including the company’s 3004, 4004 and 6004 models, to systems integrators
NetApp targets new flash storage partners
NetApp is enabling its partners to target midsize to large businesses that are looking to accelerate workloads, without compromising the way they deploy, manage and protect data
Cloudreach adds Zadara storage as a service to offering
Zadara’s Virtual Private Storage Array (VPSA) platform offers snapshots, clones and remote replication through a pure cloud business model
Pure Storage brings in veterans as it enhances channel
Pure Storage has announced the launch of the Pure Customer and Partner Success Organisation and changed its distribution model
Arcserve hires Nordics sales manager to help meet demand
Henrik Jalsborn will be responsible for contributing to Nordic sales strategy and increasing Arcserve’s offer to existing and new customers
The Bunker launches cloud service offering to VARs
The Bunker's data centres are former MOD nuclear bunkers, with upgraded networking infrastructure, fire suppression, power and cooling
Avnet and HP launch Drive the Deal solutions drive
Avnet is running a series of SolutionsPath events in the UK, Germany and Austria, aimed at sales and pre-sales partner representatives
Arrow targets growing flash market with Oracle deal
The Oracle FS1 flash storage system is purpose-built to exploit the performance of flash while providing the benefits of 'disk economics'
Nimble Storage unveils global channel rewards programme
The new programme features the introduction of certification levels, incentives and sales enablement tools to support flash storage sales
EMC appoints new UK and Ireland boss
Ross Fraser joined EMC 16 years ago from Data General. He ran EMC’s Scotland region, then UK's North region before leaving for EMEA
Storage provider Box integrates with Microsoft Office 365
Box is joining Citrix and Salesforce as an inaugural member of Microsoft’s Cloud Storage Partner Programme for Office 365
Flash player Kaminario to launch Emea partner programme
The flash storage company has already launched the channel support package in the US and now wants to add to its 70 market partners
Dot Hill heavy duty storage array reaches distributors
The Ultra56 is aimed at big data, cloud and high performance computing environments operated by heavy duty users like service carriers
EMC chooses select group of distributors for ‘Blue’ appliance
The VSPEX hyper converged infrastructure appliance will be sold by five major distributors with global reach to help boost sales, says EMC
Atlantis launches global partner programme to push SDS
The channel incentive offering is designed to take advantage of increased customer demand for more efficient storage solutions.
Cloud Distribution boosts service by hiring Sherlow
Cloud Distribution has hired James Sherlow from Palo Alto Networks to help boost support for customers after recently expanding into storage
Enterprise flash storage firm Pure expands Emea channel
Pure Storage increases Emea bookings over 300 percent as it establishes its channel presence in more countries and expands executive team
Global storage software market to be worth $23.33bn
The Markets and Markets forecast is up to 2019, with the analyst saying the growth of unstructured data is driving the market.
Netgear launches switching, wireless and storage lines
Businesses, education and health with high density user environments are being targeted with the new Netgear offering
Citrix completes Sanbolic acquisition to ‘software define’ storage
The Sanbolic acquisition will see Citrix combine storage and application performance and virtualisation technology
Quantum hires Morel to lead scale-out storage push
Large media and entertainment companies, among others, will be targeted by Patrick Morel as Quantum pushes on in the Emea region
Dell’s 2020 Vision Of Future Data Centre And Server Architectures
Dell's chief researcher predicts data centres will be full of servers, servers and nothing but servers
Year-long Merger Talks Between EMC And HP Abandoned – Report
Talk of a buy-out of EMC by HP has fizzled out but the storage firm is still said to be investigating options
Softcat Gears Up To Offer Google Drive For Work Services
Softcat has become the second UK reseller to partner Google's business cloud storage services
Arrow Agreement Points Tintri Towards Emea Expansion
Tintri's application-aware smart storage for virtualisation and cloud joins Arrow portfolio
