Year: 2015

Channel Communities

5 Tips on How to be a Successful Mentor

December 3, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on 5 Tips on How to be a Successful Mentor
Dell’s global channel chief lays out her suggestions on how to best mentor younger female employees.

Cloud

Ingram Micro acquisition of Odin cloud platform to bring more functionality for partners

December 2, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Ingram Micro acquisition of Odin cloud platform to bring more functionality for partners
Ingram buys the software it had been licensing since 2013, and in addition gets around 500 skilled Odin employees and greater exposure to telco and carrier channels.

Storage

Cisco, Nimble Storage extend partnership with new SmartStack offerings

December 2, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cisco, Nimble Storage extend partnership with new SmartStack offerings
Two of the three new reference architectures are Cisco Validated Design-backed, a first for the SmartStack solutions, which Nimble expects will help partners in several ways.

Antonio Neri, executive vice president of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Big Data

HPE debuts first IoT devices

December 2, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off on HPE debuts first IoT devices
HPE’s first IoT offerings include Edgeline devices that bring compute to the network edge, and an Aruba offering for managing location-based services.

Bill Hilf, general manager, cloud business unit, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise
Cloud

Microsoft, HPE partner on cloud integration

December 1, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Microsoft, HPE partner on cloud integration
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and Microsoft announce a cloud deal that will see the two “prefer” each other’s hybrid cloud offerings and more.

Security

STEALTHbits adds additional threat analytics with StealthINTERCEPT 3.4

November 25, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on STEALTHbits adds additional threat analytics with StealthINTERCEPT 3.4
Additional new capabilities include expansion of support for NetApp and EMC NAS Devices, and the ability to add Lockdown capabilities that override native Windows File System permissions.

Cathy Vankestren, vice president of Toronto-based End-to-End Networks
Channel Communities

Trust X Alliance looks to expand public reach

November 25, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Trust X Alliance looks to expand public reach
The Trust X Alliance launches a new public-facing Web site and puts increased focus on making community membership meaningful outside of the channel.

Big Data

Inside SAP Anywhere

November 24, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Inside SAP Anywhere
SAP’s new HANA-powered CRM solution for SMBs, which will hit general availability in both the U.S. and Canada in 2016, is drawing lots of interest. ChannelBuzz takes a look at why.

Printing and Imaging

Video: Inside Epson’s EcoTank printers

November 23, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Video: Inside Epson’s EcoTank printers
Epson’s new EcoTank inkjet printers flip the cost equation on printers and consumables. What does this mean to VARs and managed print provider?

Big Data

HPE beefs up IoT strategy with new business unit, Intel partnership

November 20, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE beefs up IoT strategy with new business unit, Intel partnership
The Intel partnership will generate both three global IoT solutions labs for customers, with the North American one being in Houston, as well as a roadmap of jointly HPE-Intel developed IoT solutions.