Month: April 2016

Distribution

Westcon-Comstor sees major Canada opportunity with new Oakville logistics centre

April 29, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Westcon-Comstor sees major Canada opportunity with new Oakville logistics centre
The move of the distributor’s facilities from Montreal to a facility of double the size in the Greater Toronto Area will enable more Canadian integration work, better SLAs for more customers, and improved co-ordination with the U.S. distribution facility in Indianapolis.

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Cloud

How Channel Partners Can Provide Strategic Value with the Cloud

April 29, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on How Channel Partners Can Provide Strategic Value with the Cloud
Dell Channel Chief Cheryl Cook provides some suggestions how partners can help ensure that their customer cloud deployments are successful.

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Storage

IBM fills all-flash enterprise gaps with three new arrays

April 28, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on IBM fills all-flash enterprise gaps with three new arrays
IBM says the three new all-flash models aimed at the higher end of the market will be a strong channel play.

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Software

Syncplicity to simplify content migration to its Sync and Share platform with new tool

April 28, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Syncplicity to simplify content migration to its Sync and Share platform with new tool
Business has been booming at enterprise Sync and Share vendor Syncplicity since they were spun out of EMC last year. Now they are unveiling a new content migration tool to simplify and automate migrations to their platform, and which the customer can also license to maintain permanent birectional access.

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Big Data

HDS adds full native unified capability, predictive analytics to unified VSP G series

April 26, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on HDS adds full native unified capability, predictive analytics to unified VSP G series
The enhancements to the HDS unified storage platform aimed at the enterprise and mid-market also now allow cloud tiering from the appliance itself, and new support for VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes assists performance in virtualized environments.

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Networking

Dell integrated Aerohive solution for campus highlights new networking announcements

April 26, 2016 Mark Cox 2
Dell also announced an expansion of their open source networking initiatives, as well as two new in-rack systems for the data centre.

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Networking

New Fortinet security fabric enhances intelligence, awareness

April 26, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on New Fortinet security fabric enhances intelligence, awareness
In addition to the new fabric itself, the security vendor announces two of its key components, a new 6000 level firewall and Fortinet’s new CP9 content processor for deep packet inspection.

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Storage

New Nexsan UNITY offers adds sync and share capabilities to NST Unified Storage

April 25, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on New Nexsan UNITY offers adds sync and share capabilities to NST Unified Storage
Integrating the capabilities acquired from Connected Data’s Transporter appliances gives Nexsan what they believe will be a completely differentiated unified storage offering.

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Channel Programs

Epicor reworking sales culture, channel strategy, in strategic reorientation

April 22, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Epicor reworking sales culture, channel strategy, in strategic reorientation
A key part of this is a major strengthening of the Epicor channel, including in the United States, where it has always been a small proportion of sales. Significant programmatic initiatives will be coming this fall.

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Cloud

Epicor promises both commitment and caution in move to the cloud

April 22, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Epicor promises both commitment and caution in move to the cloud
At its customer event, ERP vendor Epicor laid out its plans to become a cloud-first company, to which it asserted a strong commitment – even though the transition is greatly complicated by multiple factors.

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