Cloud
Unified Dell Technologies brand strength for Dell EMC in Canada
Michael Sharun, the President of Dell EMC Canada’s Enterprise Division, discusses recent trends in the company’s Canadian business.
Data Centre
Data Centre
Nutanix announces new software validations for HPE, Cisco servers
Nutanix also announced Nutanix Go, a program that allows acquisition of their appliances on a cloud-like purchase model, but for now, it’s only available in the U.S.
Cloud
Equinix seeking to expand partner sales with interconnect story
Equinix’s business has moved far beyond providing data centre power and space, and as their channel grows, they want it to be able to blend Equinix interconnect capabilities with their own solutions offerings.
Data Centre
Pivot3 looks to shake up hyper-converged market with multiple workload solution
The Acuity solution’s priority-aware capabilities is the fruit of last year’s acquisition by Pivot3 of NexGen and its technology.
Data Centre
Dell EMC study reveals habits of highly successful digital transforming organizations
The study found that only five per cent of the large companies surveyed are digitally transformed, but there are positive takeaways as well.
Data Centre
Cisco implores partners to capture the digital opportunity
Cisco execs emphasized to partners that while the digital opportunity is a massive opportunity, especially because it is so critical to customers, partners like Cisco itself, need to make major changes of their own to succeed with it.
Cloud
HotLink signs on Avnet as first distributor for VMware-focused cloud integration platform
Avnet will also distribute the HotLink Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service offering in the U.S., and Canada, an offering that Hotlink thinks is exceptionally well-suited to the channel.
Cloud
Big changes in data centre technology to help channel in 2017: Dell EMC
The CTO of the Dell EMC Converged Platforms & Solutions Division also stressed the continuing importance of their Nutanix partnership, emphasizing its centrality to Dell EMC’s growing relationship with Microsoft.
Data Centre
New Pivot3 Canada country manager Grant Aitken looks to raise company visibility
Pivot3’s hyper-converged Canadian business is much stronger today in the physical security space than in compute, and addressing that is one of ex-VMware Canadian country manager’s Aitken’s top priorities.
Computers
New Year’s Podcast Series: Stefan Bockhop of Lenovo Canada
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.
Computers
New Canadian organizational structure for Dell EMC accelerates successful integration
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.
Cloud
NetApp adds new threads to their data fabric
NetApp announces a series of new and enhanced data services, as well as a refresh of several solutions aimed at the hybrid cloud.
Data Centre
Michael Dell talks strategy at Dell EMC World
The Dell Technologies CEO stated his views on multiple topics in a variety of topics during Q&A sessions at the event.
Data Centre
Nutanix to lose out as expanded Dell EMC VxRail appliance line targets VMware users?
Dell EMC has announced upgrades to its hyper-converged VxRail and VxRack offerings, with hardware improvement stemming both from Intel Broadwell processors and optimization with PowerEdge servers. Many more configurations will be available, including a 3 node VxRail offering that drops the entry price by a quarter.
Data Centre
Lenovo creates new appliance-centric ThinkAgile portfolio
ThinkAgile will initially consist of three components: their existing HX offerings with Nutanix software, beefed up with Lenovo networking; the newly announced CX line from a new partnership with Nimble Storage; and new OpenStack-based offerings that will first be limited to China, and eventually roll into other geos.
Data Centre
Nimble Storage sees huge opportunity in Lenovo partnership
For Nimble, the Lenovo partnership massively expands their route to market, with a series of new appliances that combine the two companies’ technology, and which will go to market through Lenovo and its channel.
Data Centre
NetApp learns from past integration failures to leverage SolidFire
Twelve years ago, NetApp acquired scale-out NAS startup Spinnaker, and began a long and horrific series of integration problems. This year, they acquired SolidFire’s scale-out technology, and took steps to learn from the lessons of the past.
Computers
Dell Technologies pledges to lead next industrial revolution as new company gets underway
Dell promises massive innovation and change in technology, while pledging minimal disruptive changes to the old Dell and EMC product lines.
Channel Programs
Lenovo hyperconverged channel plans with Stefan Bockhop [video]
Lenovo Canada director of channels Stefan Bockhop weighs in on the vendor’s plans to enable the channel and make hyperconverged a broader play for solution providers.
Data Centre
Independent but accelerated: Gelsinger, Dell discuss post-merger place for VMware
Michael Dell and Pat Gelsinger weigh in on the benefits of VMware as part of the post-merger Dell family, stress ecossytem scale and downplay conflicts.