Data Storage

MSPs Need To Help Customers Get Control Of Files For Collaboration, Sharing

by Joseph F. Kovar
Qnext's Tom Ward told MSPs at the NexGen 2018 Conference that it is important to help customers secure their data, especially with an on-premises offering, before they open files to sharing and collaboration.
StorageCraft To MSPs: Make Disaster Recovery Top Priority Before Disasters Happen

by Joseph F. Kovar
StorageCraft's new data protection suite, featuring software-based backup and recovery for physical and virtual environments and hardware appliances for local protection with a tie to the cloud, helps MSPs talk disaster recovery with clients.
Axcient Looks To Fill Holes In Office 365 Data Protection

by Joseph F. Kovar
Office 365 users face several hurdles when it comes to protecting their data that Axcient said are not addressed natively in that application, but MSPs can mitigate them by bundling Axcient technology with their services, the company said.
IBM, Nvidia Partner On New Converged Infrastructure Optimized For AI

by Joseph F. Kovar
The IBM SpectrumAI combines IBM's FlashSystem all-flash storage and Nvidia's DGX-1 GPU-based server technology in a platform the company says will meet the needs of artificial intelligence-based workloads.
5 Storage Surprises AWS CEO Andy Jassy Launched At His re:Invent Keynote

by Joseph Tsidulko
Andy Jassy dived into numerous new storage offerings AWS introduced at its re:Invent conference.
Red Hat Eyes Enhanced Container Strategy With Acquisition Of Startup NooBaa

by Matt Brown
The company intends to use NooBaa's technology to bring a ‘comprehensive set of data services’ to its storage portfolio, including Red Hat Ceph Storage and Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage.
Amazon Intros Intelligent Tiering For S3 Storage To Optimize Cost

by Joseph F. Kovar
The cloud giant's new S3 Intelligent-Tiering class of storage features the same latency as its Standard class, but automatically moves data between two separate tiers depending on how frequently it is accessed. But it may not be the right class for all data.
Pure Storage Makes Huge Bet On Hybrid On-Prem, Cloud Data Management

by Joseph F. Kovar
Pure Storage wants to make it easier for clients of its high-performance all-flash storage to run that storage and manage their data natively in AWS, and took its first big steps with the introduction of Cloud Block Store for AWS, CloudSnap, and StorReduce.
HPE Launches Dedicated North America Storage Business Unit

by Steven Burke
The new 550 employee unit – which is aiming to grow the storage business at 25 percent in the current fiscal year – is doubling the incentives for new customer wins for partners.
HPE Ups Its Management Game With Expansion Of InfoSight To Cover Server Environments

by Joseph F. Kovar
HPE InfoSight, originally designed for Nimble Storage environments and later expanded to HPE 3Par storage, is now bringing its artificial intelligence-based management and proactive problem-detection capabilities to HPE server environments.
Goodbye eFolder, Hello Axcient: Merged Company Rebrands, Intros Suite With Products From Both

by Joseph F. Kovar
‘Financially, we're healthy. Both Axcient and eFolder were profitable. But our focus isn't on profits, though. We expect to make more investments in the partner experience, R&D, and scaling the products,’ says Eric White, Axcient CEO.
Kaseya Promise: New Unitrends Done Deal Program Gives MSPs Paying Customers, Not Just Leads

by Joseph F. Kovar
‘If you are an MSP and adopt Unitrends MSP as your backup and recovery technology, we will give you paying customers. Not leads. Paying customers,’ says Kaseya CEO Fred Voccola.
Backup And Disaster Recovery Minute: Understand The Importance Of Cloud Backup Solutions

by Aaron Nobil
Learn how StorageCraft enables partners to sell a complete disaster recovery offering to their customers by taking their business continuity offering to the next level with cloud services.
Increase Revenue And Profit Opportunity With OneXafe And ShadowXafe

by Aaron Nobil
Discover how StorageCraft's ShadowXafe and OneXafe are today's next-generation data protection solution set that solution providers can feel confident about.
5 Companies That Came To Win This Week

by Rick Whiting
For the week ending Oct. 26, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their 'A' game to the channel.