Storage

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  5 Companies That Came To Win This Week

  by Rick Whiting

  For the week ending July 30 CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel.

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  Commvault Metallic SaaS Tech Drives Q1 Sales, ARR Growth

  by Joseph F. Kovar

  ‘We also have inside sales and sales reps pitching Metallic to customers. Our customer renewal specialists also talk with customers about Metallic. Metallic is becoming very much entrenched in our partner community. Over 90-plus-plus percent of Metallic sales go through the channel. Metallic is almost exclusively a channel product,’ says Commvault CFO Brian Carolan.

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  Quantum Acquires HCI Pioneer Pivot3’s Video Surveillance Tech

  by Joseph F. Kovar

  ‘[Pivot3’s] technology completes our surveillance portfolio. It becomes the core now, covering SMB to mission-critical requirements including software and tape,’ says Eric Bassier, Quantum’s senior director of product marketing.

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  5 Companies That Came To Win This Week

  by Rick Whiting

  For the week ending July 16 CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel.

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  Commvault Signs Microsoft Partner SoftwareONE As First Metallic MSP

  by Joseph F. Kovar

  ‘SoftwareONE is the first to offer backup-as-a-service via white-label. It will be branded as SoftwareONE, and the value will be through SoftwareONE. We have integrated Metallic into the SoftwareONE system so customers feel it’s from SoftwareONE,’ says Manoj Nair, general manager Commvault’s Metallic business.

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  5 Companies That Came To Win This Week

  by Rick Whiting

  For the week ending July 9 CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel.

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  5 Companies That Came To Win This Week

  by Rick Whiting

  For the week ending July 2 CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel.

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  HPE CEO Neri: HPE’s $374M Zerto Buy Key To Cloud-native, Software-defined Future

  by Joseph F. Kovar

  ‘This acquisition accelerates HPE storage transformation to a cloud-native software-defined data services business. Zerto’s industry-leading disaster recovery software is proven with over 9,000 customers globally and over 350 managed service providers who power their data protection-as-a-service offering with Zerto’s software,’ says HPE CEO Antonio Neri.

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  5 Companies That Came To Win This Week

  by Rick Whiting

  For the week ending June 25, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel.

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  Dell Technologies Capital Takes Stake In Storage Startup Calamu

  by Joseph F. Kovar

  ‘Calamu is looking for bigger data platforms to integrate with. Dell’s domain expertise and enterprise technology makes them an excellent partner for our long-term vision of integrating into larger data platforms,’ says Paul Lewis, Calamu co-founder and CEO.

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  Commvault Targets ‘Growing’ Partner Base With Metallic For MSPs, Consumption Pricing Incentives

  by Joseph F. Kovar

  ‘We’re giving our partners tremendous flexibility in the hybrid cloud market,’ says John Tavares, vice president of global channel and alliances, of the SaaS-based MSP platform aimed at helping MSPs manage workloads whether on-premises or in public clouds, which will be rolled out this year.

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  NetApp CEO Kurian: ‘We Are Reaching More Customers Than Ever Before With Our Public Cloud Business’

  by Joseph F. Kovar

  ‘Over the course of fiscal year 2021, we added approximately 1,500 new-to-NetApp customers with public cloud services and grew our total cloud customer count by 137 percent from Q4 fiscal year 2020. In addition to adding new cloud customers, existing cloud customers are expanding their spend with us,’ says NetApp CEO George Kurian on the company’s financial conference call.

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  5 Companies That Came To Win This Week

  by Rick Whiting

  For the week ending May 28, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel.

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  22dot6 Exits Stealth, Promises Unlimited Storage Across Any Arrays, Clouds

  by Joseph F. Kovar

  ‘We completely abstracted storage resources regardless of what storage hardware or which clouds the data resides on. I could turn the entire world into a single disk drive. But we needed a modern architecture. So we redid the code with Valence. Now we’re ready for commercial release via integrators,’ says 22dot6 Founder and CEO Diamond Lauffin.

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  Panzura Launches Service-focused Global File System For MSPs

  by Joseph F. Kovar

  ‘With a global file system, you can use the benefits of each cloud’s characteristics. So if you like Amazon Web Services compute, but do analytics on Google and use Microsoft Azure because of the Microsoft applications, you can do it with the same data set for all the hyperscalers,’ says Glen Shok, Panzura’s vice president of strategic alliances.