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Antonio Neri, executive vice president of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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HPE debuts first IoT devices

December 2, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off on HPE debuts first IoT devices
HPE’s first IoT offerings include Edgeline devices that bring compute to the network edge, and an Aruba offering for managing location-based services.

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Inside SAP Anywhere

November 24, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Inside SAP Anywhere
SAP’s new HANA-powered CRM solution for SMBs, which will hit general availability in both the U.S. and Canada in 2016, is drawing lots of interest. ChannelBuzz takes a look at why.

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HPE beefs up IoT strategy with new business unit, Intel partnership

November 20, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE beefs up IoT strategy with new business unit, Intel partnership
The Intel partnership will generate both three global IoT solutions labs for customers, with the North American one being in Houston, as well as a roadmap of jointly HPE-Intel developed IoT solutions.

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EMC’s shift in Data Lake strategy opens up new partner opportunities

November 13, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on EMC’s shift in Data Lake strategy opens up new partner opportunities
EMC’s Data Lake 2.0 significantly enhances the original core-focused Data Lake strategy by extending it to the edge and the cloud, as well as strengthening the core. This is also likely to expand partner opportunities somewhat beyond the very limited involvement thought likely when the original Data lake was announced.

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Dell introduces first purpose-built Internet of Things gateway

October 26, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell introduces first purpose-built Internet of Things gateway
Dell also announced its Statistica data analytics package has been expanded to include middleware on gateways, and announced a contest for IoT solutions built on Dell gateways, which will have 16 winners, and runs until March 31, 2016.

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Redefining Cisco as a Big Data/analytics company

October 9, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Redefining Cisco as a Big Data/analytics company
Big Data and analytics haven’t been important in Cisco’s past, but they are critical to its future, and the company has stepped up its efforts in the space.

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Cisco gears up Internet of Things strategy

October 9, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cisco gears up Internet of Things strategy
Cisco announces several new IoT solutions, and talks about its strategy and partner opportunities in the space.

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Moving Cisco forward from its core

October 6, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Moving Cisco forward from its core
Five months into the job, Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins laid out his vision of where the IT economy is headed and what Cisco needs to do to lead the changes. It’s a vision that will fundamentally change Cisco from a hardware-focused maker of networking gear.

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Dell broadens Big Data market, cuts customer costs, with new reference architecture

September 24, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell broadens Big Data market, cuts customer costs, with new reference architecture
A reference architecture co-designed with vendor partners Cloudera and Syncsort simplifies Big Data and analytics processes for new Hadoop users, and chops the expense of data transformation jobs.

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Dell steps up channel marketing activities

September 17, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell steps up channel marketing activities
At their Canadian partner event on Wednesday, Dell stressed their emphasis on driving more channel marketing activities, sour economy notwithstanding, and emphasized their building of the Future-Ready Enterprise brand with partners.