Dell beefs up a PCaaS offering that existed long before its formal announcement in May, to provide more differentiation from their competitors in what is a tiny market today, but which they think is poised to grow significantly.
8GB memory is now standard, up from 4 GB, with the high end model moving from 8GB to 15 GB. The keyboard is now backlit with red rather than white for better nighttime use.
HP further refines its device-as-a-service offering, and starts the march towards moving PCs from transactional to contractual engagements.
Michael Sharun and Kevin Connolly, who run the two divisions of the Dell EMC business in Canada, review the year’s achievements from a Canadian perspective.
Dell is stressing that its recent workstations announcement is far more than just the latest feeds and speeds, but is part of a strategy to give customers the massive capabilities, immersive computing, and virtual reality of an AI-driven future that has already started.
Connolly acknowledges he will need to work hard to assure Dell EMC Canada customers, partners and staff that a guy coming from the EMC side of the house gets the commercial business, which is mainly legacy Dell.
Myers’ retirement from Tech Data last month turns out to be an extended vacation, as the veteran distributor moves into Stefan Bockhop’s old position at Lenovo Canada.
The new NComputing RH-HDX thin client boasts enterprise device management and dual monitor support capabilities, addressing two key enterprise concerns where Raspberry Pi 3 had been lacking.
Dell Technologies’ CEO took questions on a myriad of topics, ranging from the wisdom of doubling down on PCs when the segment is in decline, to why a traditional hardware company believes it to be well positioned for the cloud era.
Like the ProDeploy Enterprise Suite introduced a little over a year ago, the Dell EMC ProDeploy Client Suite offers three levels of service offerings, designed in a way to make it easy for partners to resell or co-deliver.
HP Canada president and CEO Mary Ann Yule and channel chief John Cammalleri discuss the year that was 2016 and offer their predictions for 2017.
Lenovo Canada director of channels Stefan Bockhop on the company’s 2016 campaign to build its datacentre story, and a look ahead to its 2017 partner program.
These machines, targeted mainly at standard retail outlets, have met with a strong initial response, selling more units before launch than other Zebra phones typically sell in 3-5 months.
Dell EMC has made a restructuring in Canada into Enterprise and Commercial Sections, which are very close to pre-combination EMC and Dell respectively. They are crediting this as a key reason for strong performance over the last nine weeks.
Mary Ann Yule believes the message of the new HP has strong resonance in Canada, particularly with the emphasis she has made since taking over of having HP’s Canadian staff be more empathetic to partners.
Weisler also discussed HP’s billion dollar acquisition of Samsung’s printer business, and how it will make HP a power in the A3 market.
Dell promises massive innovation and change in technology, while pledging minimal disruptive changes to the old Dell and EMC product lines.
Sammy Kinlaw reviews Lenovo’s recently concluded quarter in North America and indicates their initiatives going forward, including a new distribution agreement for the Motorola products.
Many details still have not yet been determined, or cannot be made public, but at EMC World, Dell and EMC indicated some additional information about what the massive new organization would look like, and be called, once the merger is complete.
The Z1 G3 also has additional features and storage. What may be a negative for some – and a plus for others – is the reduction of the display size, from 27 inches to 24. HP also announced new receiver software, which will give Apple Mac OS X users access to HP Z workstations.
