Opti9, a 2022 rebranding of Canadian IaaS firm HostedBizz, has just begun an important new strategic relationship with Backblaze, which just got underway January 1
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Opti9 launches new partnership with Backblaze
by Mark Cox •
Partnerships
Artificial Intelligence, As-a-Service, Partnerships, Storage
Hybrid cloud infrastructure vendor Hitachi Vantara launches new partnership with Virtana and its platform suite
by Mark Cox •
Hitachi Vantara and Virtana have announced a new collaboration with AI-powered monitoring and observability vendor Virtana, which will integrate Virtana’s suite with the Hitachi Vantara EverFlex infrastructure-as-a-service offering.
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Cloud storage provider Backblaze ramps up Canadian presence with new Opti9 partnership
by Mark Cox •
Backblaze will leverage the new partnership to open its first data region in Canada, which will be based in Toronto, service the whole country, and become available in the first quarter of 2025.
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NTT DATA partners with Palo Alto Networks around Managed Detection and Response on Cortex platform
by Mark Cox •
The expanded relationship between the two long-time partners brings NTT DATA’s Managed Extended Detection Response Service onto the Palo Alto Networks XSIAM Cortex platform, to add additional AI capabilities to threat monitoring, detection and rapid response.
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New Sage study examines role of channel partners in evolving SMB market in Canada and U.S.
by Mark Cox •
Partners are engaging in significant changes to their business models to improve their capability to deliver new digitally-focused services that partners today are increasingly demanding.
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Major new HPE NVIDIA partnerships highlight HPE Discover
by Mark Cox •
NVIDIA makes scores of partnerships with other vendors, but the ones that were just announced at the HPE Discover event were of supreme importance for both companies heading forward.
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Intel strengthens partner ecosystem with new partner Accelerator initiatives and Partner Activation Zones
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The two new Accelerators cover the edge and networking, joining an existing one around AI, while the Activation Zones, which are different from, but highly complementary to the Accelerators, are around Networking, Intelligent Edge, and Manufacturing.
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VAST Data launches key new partnerships with NVIDIA and Super Micro
by Mark Cox •
Both partnerships expand AI capabilities by combining VAST’s software with NVIDIA and Super Micro’s hardware, with more such partnerships on the way.
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Sage Canada partners and customers attracted by Sage’s bold strategy at Transform
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Sage’s new product portfolio and strategy had attendees saying this was the most exciting transform in their memory.
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Sage looks to improve SMB skills around carbon reporting with extended AWS partnership
by Mark Cox •
The new strategic collaboration agreement with AWS to enable AI-powered solutions for SMBs includes a launch of Sage Earth on the AWS Marketplace will kick off in a few weeks in the UK and Ireland, but other geos, including North America, will have a bit of a wait – like 18 months.
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Tehama looks to significantly expand market for secure cybersecurity access platform with collaboration with Microsoft through Pegasus program
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Ottawa’s Tehama Technologies, which has was recently restructured under the leadership of multiple senior executives from the company, sees the new partnership with Microsoft as critical in the evolution of their strategy going forward.
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HYCU partners with Anthropic around new HYCU Generative AI Issue
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HYCU’s new offering utilizes Claude, Anthropics’s AI assistant, to integrate AI into the HYCU backup platform.
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HPE, NVIDIA expand strategic partnership with new enterprise computing solution for Generative AI
by Mark Cox •
The new joint solution is designed as a turnkey solution for enterprises who don’t want to develop their own AI models.
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NetApp, VMware and Fujitsu partner on hybrid cloud solution for SME market
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The joint solution will be sold by Fujitsu and by channel members certified by all three vendors.
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NetApp announces integration with the VMware Sovereign Cloud, and simplified data management for modern virtualized applications
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The Sovereign Cloud integration brings the VMware compliance technology to enterprise storage, while the modernization of APIs between ONTAP and VMware vSphere improves the scalability and effectiveness of VMware’s VVols architecture.
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Next generation of VMware Data Services Manager highlights new VMware cloud enhancements
by Mark Cox •
The big news on the cloud front included the new version of VMware Data Services Manager, and the 5.1 version of VMware Cloud Foundation.
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VMware taking successful measures to ramp up their GSI business
by Mark Cox •
VMware has long had a large GSI business but since early 2022 they have been working hard to deepen that, moving beyond determining value by services revenue, and getting more involved with GSI offerings.
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Dell brings Project Helix partnership with NVIDIA live with three separate solution bundles
by Mark Cox •
The new solutions involve a joint Generative AI validated design and Dell Professional Services in collaboration with NVIDIA, all of which are also available through channel partners.
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Splunk CEO says they are not the old Splunk and pledges more innovation and better partner support
by Mark Cox •
At Splunk’s Global Partner Summit Monday, the company made several announcements of special relevance to partners, including OT-focused Splunk Edge Hub, the launch of Splunk on Azure Marketplace, and a major extension of their partnership with SAP.
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VAST Data announces partnership with Commvault at HPE Discover
by Mark Cox •
The extended partnership with Commvault follows up a major one with HPE early last year.
