Month: May 2015

Hardware

Designing Dell: Dell’s Industrial Design team talks turkey with media

May 29, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Designing Dell: Dell’s Industrial Design team talks turkey with media
Dell’s hardware designers explain their original mandate, to turn Dell from a follower to a leader in product innovation, and discuss their design philosophy and principles that underlay the large degree of success they have in this area now compared to a decade ago.

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Cloud

Avaya buys Richmond Hill’s Esna to easily integrate multi-vendor communications into cloud apps

May 29, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Avaya buys Richmond Hill’s Esna to easily integrate multi-vendor communications into cloud apps
Esna will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Avaya, with Avaya ‘planning to adopt’ Esna’s over 200 active channel partners. Avaya also said the deal will provide existing Avaya partners with significant new opportunities.

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Cloud

Virtustream acquired by EMC, to become separate EMC Federation business

May 26, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Virtustream acquired by EMC, to become separate EMC Federation business
Virtustream will form the basis of EMC’s managed cloud services business, and will be sold both direct and through service provider and integrator partners.

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Incoming Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins
Networking

Cisco Canada chief: Robbins will drive execution

May 26, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Cisco Canada chief: Robbins will drive execution
Bernadette Wightman calls incoming Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins “an execution engine” arriving at a time when pace of change is accelerating.

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Channel Programs

Xirrus completely recrafts channel program with new Xirrus Xcellerate

May 26, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Xirrus completely recrafts channel program with new Xirrus Xcellerate
The changes reflect the wireless networking vendor’s transition in the last several years from a direct seller to a company that sells entirely through the channel, where the internal sales force now works to drum up business for partners.

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Distribution

Video: Inside Tech Data Canada’s Business Builder Tour

May 25, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Video: Inside Tech Data Canada’s Business Builder Tour
ChannelBuzz.ca catches up with Tech Data Canada’s Ed Galasso and HP Canada’s Phil Smith from the distributor’s Toronto Business Builder Tour stop.

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Cheryl Neal, vice president of supplier business management for security and networking solutions with Avnet Technology Solutions in the Americas.
Networking

Increase your business opportunity in SDN by asking these 8 questions

May 25, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Increase your business opportunity in SDN by asking these 8 questions
Cheryl Neal of Avnet Technology Solutions offers solution providers eight questions that can maximize their software-defined networking (SDN) business.

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Virtualization

Dell continues VDI appliance push with VMware EVO:RAIL Horizon Edition appliance

May 22, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell continues VDI appliance push with VMware EVO:RAIL Horizon Edition appliance
Dell becomes the first vendor to offer a hyper-converged end-to-end VDI appliance for EVO:RAIL, which becomes its fifth different VDI appliance in five months, as the company intensifies its emphasis on the space

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Solution Provider News

Partnering leads to acquisition as Winnipeg’s Powerland buys FACT Computers

May 22, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Partnering leads to acquisition as Winnipeg’s Powerland buys FACT Computers
The deal takes a previous partnering relationship one step further, expands Powerland’s presence in Saskatchewan, and gives them complete control of FACT’s comparatively large pool of technical people, who complement Powerland’s previous shortage of feet on the street in Saskatchewan.

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Servers

Hungry Lenovo ramping up server channel efforts in drive for top spot

May 21, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Hungry Lenovo ramping up server channel efforts in drive for top spot
The company has put measures in place to drive North American server sales through the channel, and while it is still a distant fourth in server revenues, they are eager to make up ground this year.

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