The distributor expands its relationship with Lenovo to include its Infrastructure Solutions Group, and will look to get solutions providers selling Lenovo PCs to expand their horizons into the data centre.
Last year, Dell Technologies World saw the company lay out its plan for its AI future. This year, the company made considerable progress, translating concepts into product, building out a much more detailed road map and rendering some things introduced last year obsolete.
Intel CEO announced the creation of Intel Foundry, which with Intel Products now becomes two symbiotic parts of Intel, and also announced a new partnership with Arm, which Intel said is now their most important.
The new offering adds an Opinionated AI stack and related services to Nutanix’s infrastructure and storage stacks, and the company believes it will find a good reception from the SMB to the enterprise.
Dell both expands its roster of multi-cloud services around Azure and announces a new category of subscription-based services that provide modern workforce services.
Leaseweb Canada, formed earlier this year when Dutch firm Leaseweb bought Montreal hoster iWeb, has been actively investing in IT in their Canadian operation since then.
The new MT2 International Business Exchange data centre will also have energy efficiency advantages that will let temperatures be maintained at 27 Celsius, instead of the much cooler temperatures of the past.
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.
