Articles by Mark Cox

Software

EMC defines open source strategy, opens ScaleIO to freemium model

May 5, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on EMC defines open source strategy, opens ScaleIO to freemium model
EMC’s announcements indicate that EMC’s open source strategy is becoming much more critical, something the company says is good news for their channel partners.

Hardware

Lenovo announces broad range of enterprise servers

May 5, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Lenovo announces broad range of enterprise servers
The new offerings include new four and eight socket X6 systems, Lenovo Flex System X6 Compute Nodes, and both Lenovo X6 and joint Lenovo-EMC solutions optimized for SAP HANA.

Small Business

Dell announces new Wyse VDI appliance for sub 350 seat users

May 5, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell announces new Wyse VDI appliance for sub 350 seat users
Unlike two recently announced Dell VDI appliances, this one is aimed at the smaller market, and attractively priced for it, although by design it has very limited scalability beyond the 350 seat point.

Data Centre

Atlantis Computing enters hyperconverged market with low-cost, high performance appliance

May 5, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Atlantis Computing enters hyperconverged market with low-cost, high performance appliance
Atlantis is adapting its high-performance USX software defined storage platform into a hyperconverged appliance that is easy to deploy and use, and is much less expensive than existing competitive offerings.

Channel Programs

Arcserve announces new and simplified partner program

May 5, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Arcserve announces new and simplified partner program
The new program replaces the legacy one Arcserve brought with it from its days as part of CA, and leverages Ingram Micro’s business intelligence capabilities in several respects.

Channel Programs

Connected Data unveils partner program to support Transporter appliances

May 5, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Connected Data unveils partner program to support Transporter appliances
While the sync and share market is hot, cloud-based offerings have limited revenue potential for the channel, something that the Transporter private cloud appliances are designed to address.

Data Centre

New VCE VxRack designed to bring appliance simplicity to datacentre

May 4, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on New VCE VxRack designed to bring appliance simplicity to datacentre
EMC sees this as a new category of product, which provides the same benefits as hyperconverged appliances provide, but to the datacentre, where the appliances do not scale well.

Cloud

SAP Anywhere SMB front office suite to debut in China market

May 4, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on SAP Anywhere SMB front office suite to debut in China market
SAP is describing SAP as a new type of product, which allows SMBs to manage front office applications using real time analytics, and which has been built and priced specifically for this market.

Big Data

SYNNEX execs outline where they are placing their bets

May 1, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on SYNNEX execs outline where they are placing their bets
In two wide-ranging executive panels at Varnex, SYNNEX’s top executives indicated where they see the industry heading, what SYNNEX is doing to capitalize, and how solution providers can best leverage both the changes and the distributor.

Managed Services

New cloud and MPS offerings are channel highlight in Xerox workflow automation announcements

April 30, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on New cloud and MPS offerings are channel highlight in Xerox workflow automation announcements
While new workforce automation solutions were the highlight of this week’s Xerox announcements, their limited channel relevance makes some less showy cloud and MPS solutions and tools the big takeaway for partners.