Month: June 2022

Fortinet Sponsored Content

Understanding the challenges of cloud adoption

June 30, 2022 Sean Campbell, director, Canadian Channels, Fortinet Comments Off on Understanding the challenges of cloud adoption
Fortinet Canada’s Sean Campbell shares the results of the company’s 2022 Cloud Security Report on how security leaders use the cloud, their challenges, and how they respond to security threats.

Cloud

Equinix leverages expanding HPE partnership as part of growing channel initiative

June 30, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Equinix leverages expanding HPE partnership as part of growing channel initiative
The launch of HPE GreenLake in Canada in particular, because it coincided with Equinix’s physical expansion in the purchase of additional Canadian data centres, has been an important factor in Equinix’s growth in Canada.

Partnerships

SUSE supplements their HPE partnership with Rancher-focused agreements

June 30, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on SUSE supplements their HPE partnership with Rancher-focused agreements
In addition to a major announcement extending the SUSE-HPE partnership, SUSE announced that HPE has adopted SUSE Rancher K3S as their container of choice for GreenLake as-a-Service delivery, that the two companies will expand their engineering collaboration, and that SUSE Rancher and SLES Micro SKUs will be added to the HPE OEM price list in October.

Servers

Hewlett Packard Enterprise partners with Ampere to provide cloud-native silicon for service providers and cloud-focused enterprises.

June 29, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Hewlett Packard Enterprise partners with Ampere to provide cloud-native silicon for service providers and cloud-focused enterprises.
The new HPE ProLiant RL300 Gen11 server is the first in a series of HPE ProLiant RL Gen11 servers with greater compute performance stemming from a partnership with Ampere and its Ampere Altra and Ampere Altra Max cloud-native processors that generates a high density core and better power efficiency.

Barracuda MSP Sponsored Content

Key takeaways from the annual “Global MSP Day” Report

June 29, 2022 Jason Howells, VP, MSP and International Sales, Barracuda Comments Off on Key takeaways from the annual “Global MSP Day” Report
The business outlook is improving, but customer demands, security concerns, and staffing challenges lie ahead.

Cloud

HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise highlights new HPE solution announcements

June 29, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise highlights new HPE solution announcements
HPE also announced eight new services, as well as new or expanded strategic partnerships with Red Hat and SUSE.

Backup

Veeam founders launch Object First to provide Veeam-centric storage appliance

June 28, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Veeam founders launch Object First to provide Veeam-centric storage appliance
David Bennett comes over from Axcient, where he had been CEO, to take the same role at Object First.

Intel vPro Sponsored Content

Layering protection: How Intel vPro Platform helps secure enterprises

June 28, 2022 Eric Chong, Enterprise Client Technical Sales Specialist, Intel Corporation Comments Off on Layering protection: How Intel vPro Platform helps secure enterprises
Intel’s Eric Chong explains how solution providers can add the hardware security capabilities of the Intel vPro Platform to their security software and network mix to offer customers the best-possible security.

Channel Programs

HPE adds new Vantage partner program and tweaks some existing tools to better serve changing partner ecosystem

June 28, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE adds new Vantage partner program and tweaks some existing tools to better serve changing partner ecosystem
All these new HPE announcements reflect the maturity of the partner ecosystem and the desire to pivot support around business models.

Antonio Neri, executive vice president of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Channel Programs

HPE lays out better, stronger, faster strategy for channel partners

June 28, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE lays out better, stronger, faster strategy for channel partners
While HPE had some new program announcements at their Partner Growth Summit on Monday, they also reaffirmed the company’s strategy for partners, and laid out where they are headed.