Pure says only the lack of a scale-out flash solution that is price compatible with disk has prevented the disruption of disk in the data centres, something the company says that they have now overcome with FlashBlade//E.
Aptum’s new private multi-tenanted cloud service is now available in the US, UK, and Canada, and Aptum is emphasizing how it provides a stronger level of support than their competitors.
The new metal instances fferings are available now in both Canada and Latin America, but the French-headquartered company’s products are not yet available in the U.S, although they are ramping up their presence in Canada, and the U.S. as well as APAC are on the drawing board for future expansion.
The $US 84 million of new investment will go primarily to expand their data centres in Toronto, Calgary and Kamloops, although their other five Canadian data centres will also be eligible for funds for facility expansion.
VMware’s traditional data centre solutions have been fundamentally redesigned and upgraded to make sure they remain a strong fit within the company’s broader multi-cloud strategy.
The new services, one of which is unique to Canada in North America, will provide new opportunities for Equinix channel partners.
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.
Twelve new GreenLake services were introduced, eight of which are modular channel-friendly services from HPE Aruba, two of which are brand new GreenLake services, and the final two are upgrades of services announced last year.
Solarwinds has not had a full global partner program in the past, but new global channel leader Jeff McCullough is working on one, for the second half of this year.
Vultr competes with the big cloud providers, focusing on core compute, storage and networking services, and offering customers lower prices and partners higher margins.
The announcements being made today at this year’s Dell Summit all revolve around the company’s newer edge and telecom businesses.
Intel presented a roadmap of process and packaging innovations to power their next wave of products through 2025, which they said will get back to process performance parity – and then leadership.
HPE’s CEO discussed how the new announcements around HPE Lighthouse, Project Aurora, Silicon on-Demand and compute as-a-service drives HPE’s vision forward, and also commented on their just announced acquisition of DeterminedAI.
HPE kicked off its Discover event with a flurry of announcements around HPE GreenLake, including GreenLake Lighthouse, Project Aurora, Silicon-on-Demand, a new Compute Cloud Console – and eight new services.
Dell’s global channel chief Rola Dagher talked with ChannelBuzz about the state of the Dell channel today, and the priorities for the rest of the year ahead.
Intel recently introduced new CEO Pat Gelsinger to partners at the Intel Partner Forum, together with his vision for bringing partner-centric prosperity to all. Intel also provided updates on channel issues, marketing, and core areas of the business.
Ataccama launched its Ataccama ONE Gen2 Platform into beta in November, and used its flagship customer event to highlight both its general availability and its ability to address customer concerns enumerated in a new study that was also featured at the event.
Aptum has made a strong effort since they became a standalone to be more systematic in their channel policies, and while the look of the channel changes with the colo divestiture, they pledge commitment to the same strategy around managed services.
Equinix Metal launches with integrations from hardware providers Dell and Pure storage, and with software ones from Mirantis Container Cloud and Cohesity Helios, but they expect many more beyond these early adopters.
Big changes afoot at Dell Technologies in Canada, with Mike Sharun, who had spent the last 23 years at Dell and EMC, announcing he will retire in the spring, with Pam Pelletier named as his replacement.
