Media Mentions

High-end enterprise storage is one of the most foundational pieces of the enterprise data centre today, because of the enormous explosion of data – and where it needs to be stored and made available for applications and workloads. By the end of this article, you’ll be able to decide where you and your current storage supplier stand on each of these five aspects of the “great debate” defining today’s enterprise storage deployments.

For the 2026 CRN Tech Innovator Awards, CRN staff evaluated and selected product finalists and winners across a broad range of IT categories including AI software and infrastructure, AI PCs, data and information management, enterprise networking, and multiple cybersecurity categories. Here’s a look at the innovative products that have made the first round of judging.

Infinidat’s Eric Herzog and Pellera‘s Tony Petcou outlined a joint channel strategy to deliver true data immunity, defining modern cyber resilience through a three-pronged framework: absolute prevention, air-gapped immutable copies, and sub-minute system recovery.

Episode 3 of the Infinidat Red Hat TechCast, sees Eric Herzog, Chief Marketing Officer, and Mike Jochimsen, Director of Alliances, Infinidat, a Lenovo company, discuss a recent experience involving one of Red Hat and Infinidat’s joint customers.

​“Show me the money” is one of the most famous lines from the Hollywood movie Jerry Maguire, and it applies to more than just the plot of the Tom Cruise film. CIOs are very likely, in today’s era of rapid infrastructure cost increases and long-time delivery cycles, to say, “Show me the money,” too. And now when a CIO makes this plea to an IT storage administrator, there’s a very powerful answer.​

Business continuity is no longer a nice-to-have capability for enterprise organizations – it is a strategic requirement. As companies continue to modernize their IT environments and move mission-critical applications to containerized and virtualized platforms, the ability to maintain uninterrupted operations during unexpected events has become increasingly important.