Recent Articles
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RackWare Brings Disaster Recovery to the Cloud
RackWare aims to address enterprise disaster recovery pain points—such as cost, flexibility and automation—with a new cloud-based DR offering that delivers server protection and failover at a lower cost than a fully replicated data center. RackWare has sold its offerings primarily through direct sales as well as cloud service and managed service providers that either…
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Tamr Taps Channel to Market Its Data Access Platform
The biggest limiting factor to big data is finding a way to make all that information accessible to the people who can make the most use of it. To help address that challenge, Tamr developed a platform that uses machine learning algorithms to identify relationships between different types of data sets. Tamr, a startup company…
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DataGravity’s New Storage Platform Bucks Tradition
One of the most tried-and-true ways of making money selling storage has been to sell a lot of management software on top of the core platform. The problem with that approach, of course, is that it can put the solution provider in the position of asking the customer to pay for the privilege of using…
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Arcserve Heads Back to the Channel Future
Back in the day, Arcserve was a leading light of the channel that rode many of those relationships into becoming a leader in the backup and recovery software market. Then Arcserve was acquired by what became CA Technologies, and it became something of a challenge for solution providers in the channel to navigate their way…
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Channel News Briefs: Week of Aug. 3
Tech Data Mobile Solutions Enhances Cloud-Based Partner Portal Tech Data Mobile Solutions has improved CellManage, its cloud-based portal that centralizes the management of mobile devices through integration with wireless carriers, enterprise mobility management (EMM) and corporate IT systems. The enhancements provide resellers with a platform to manage asset tracking, billing, deployment and procurement of mobile…
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Microsoft Sets Sights on Oracle RDBMS
Over the years, Microsoft has steadily gained market share on Oracle in the relational database management system (RDBMS) space, with the possible exception of high-end, mission-critical applications. But with the arrival of a Microsoft SQL Server 2014 offering that can run both transactional processing and analytics applications in-memory, Microsoft clearly has its sights set on…
