The new Riverbed-Ready program is for ISVs partners, and is designed to spur new and more full featured solutions which cover all the elements of Riverbed’s Application Performance Platform, but solution provider partners are also expected to benefit significantly.
Monday is the kickoff for both the launch in Canada of the full StreamOne e-business platform in Canada and the internal realignment of Tech Data Canada’s sales division along the same lines as the AIS in the U.S.
A new survey commissioned by Microsoft found under 5 per cent of Canadian C level execs understand what the cloud is, but the reality is somewhat different.
The completion of the acquisition of Motorola Mobility will allow Lenovo to provide North American partners with smartphones for the first time. But don’t look for them to provide BlackBerry devices any time soon.
Pure sees OpenStack as providing a great services opportunity to help customers adapt OpenStack for private clouds, since it is necessary to help them adapt OpenStack to different customer circumstances.
In addition to being lightweight and energy efficient, the new skyhawk FS offers price parity with HDD systems “without tricks”, at $2.99 per GB.
Circuit brings together voice, video, screen sharing, messaging, and file sharing within a single interface, with extreme simplicity of use.
The enhancements to Hitachi Unified Compute Platform which streamline and accelerate the process of building and managing cloud are the big news here for most HDS partners.
AVG’s commercial market strategy is now based around MSPs, who the company thinks are well positioned to handle the additional management tasks that the Internet of Things is bringing.
New Moonshot apps for application delivery, video transcoding, and a Web infrastructure-in-a-box solution for Web hosters, allow HP to target more custom markets with Moonshot.
McAfee has retooled its SMB offerings, with three new suites which feature McAfee’s next-generation anti-malware technology, which is being deployed for the first time in these solutions.
Transporter Genesis becomes the company’s first non-Drobo product to be a strong channel offering, and will heavily leverage the Drobo channel to go to market.
The new switch becomes Extreme’s highest performance Gigabit edge model, while the new AP is aimed at more cost-conscious buyers.
The agreement, which went into effect October 1, covers only the server products acquired from IBM, but Avnet is assessing whether to carry the rest of the Lenovo server portfolio as well.
Last year rumours surfaced that SAP was shutting Business ByDesign down, but instead it has moved it to the HANA platform, given it its own general manager, and changed its go-to-market model to better leverage partners.
Dell’s top security partners still have concerns and issues about their relationship with Dell, So what is the vendor doing about them?
The 9800 is the first entry in the SuperMassive 9000 series to be branded solely as Dell, without SonicWALL on the bezel, reflecting the company’s increased focus on the Dell brand.
Dell’s CEO gave advice to partners on how to improve their businesses and indicated more channel enhancements will be announced at Dell World next month.
Dell’s NFV platform is targeted at the carrier market, giving Dell its first solid solution for this high-end space. It brings software-defined networking and compute infrastructure virtualization, which started in the enterprise and midmarket, into the carrier space.
Dell kicks off its security event in Orlando, impressing upon SonicWALL partners, some of whom still have concerns about Dell as a vendor, that Dell’s channel commitment is 100% genuine and will continue to improve.
