Month: April 2016

Mobility

Plantronics unveils new Voyager 5200 and 5200 UC headsets aimed at road warrior market

April 6, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Plantronics unveils new Voyager 5200 and 5200 UC headsets aimed at road warrior market
Plantronics’ newest member of its road warrior-focused Voyager line is aimed at people who need a headset optimized for occasional travel into especially noisy areas.

Data Centre

Dell strengthens EMC-VMware presence in its hyper-converged portfolio

April 5, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell strengthens EMC-VMware presence in its hyper-converged portfolio
Beefing up the offerings owned by organizations soon likely to be owned by Dell comes as no surprise, but the vendor also strongly restated its support for its Nutanix-based XC line, while beefing it up as well, and said it’s not going anywhere.

Security

Security startup GhangorCloud inks significant strategic partnership with Huawei

April 5, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Security startup GhangorCloud inks significant strategic partnership with Huawei
GhangorCloud sees enormous potential for expansion of its business through a deal. which will see the Chinese giant sell their security software on Huawei servers. While this will greatly assist Ghangorcloud in global markets, it will also have an impact in North America.

Notebooks

HP pushes design envelope with 10.4 mm thick Spectre

April 5, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on HP pushes design envelope with 10.4 mm thick Spectre
HP’s new Spectre is a consumer product, so won’t be sold by the channel, but it of channel interest because of some interesting design decisions made to create the world’s thinnest notebook – while still using Core i5 and i7 processors.

Storage

Veeam to add Availability Orchestrator for DR as add-on to Availability Suite

April 5, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Veeam to add Availability Orchestrator for DR as add-on to Availability Suite
The multi-hypervisor disaster recovery orchestration engine, which also works with Veeam Backup & Replication, is designed to let enterprises easily execute, test and document DR plans, and should provide partners with additional consulting opportunities.

Servers

Dell announces both Intel-related and internal improvements to their PowerEdge servers

April 4, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell announces both Intel-related and internal improvements to their PowerEdge servers
Dell has announced the availability of its 13th generation servers with significant upgrades due to Intel’s release of its new Broadwell CPUs. The company, has, however, added some of its enhancements at the same time.

Data Capture/Point of Sale

Zebra refreshes its rugged scanner lineup with new 3600 Ultra-Rugged series

April 4, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Zebra refreshes its rugged scanner lineup with new 3600 Ultra-Rugged series
The new family of twelve models will replace the 3400 and 3500 rugged scanners, and will be priced at the same point as the earlier models, while offering significantly improved quality.