Ingram Micro Canada will help Big Blue drive its Power architecture into the midmarket through the channel via an expanded partnership.
Cloud, Data Centre, Distribution
Ingram Micro Canada adds Power to IBM lineup
by Robert Dutt •
Data Centre
Data Centre, Servers, Software
HPE, Docker look to future with major strategic alliance
by Mark Cox •
The two companies announced a broad range of Docker ready HP servers, which will be available in Q4, and a broad range of Docker integrations and other solutions for HPE, which are available now.
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Data Centre, Storage
HPE extends software-defined storage strategy
by Mark Cox •
The company has announced more details about its composable data fabric strategy, made possible by extending its StoreVirtual technology across all its form factors, to serve as the basis of its strategy for making software-defined ubiquitous in the date centre.
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Dell announces breakthrough in liquid cooling technology
by Mark Cox •
Dell’s new Triton technology, which came out of a special project its ESI [Extreme Scale Infrastructure] group did for eBay, is still far from being a commercially available product. Nevertheless, it represents an important advance in liquid cooling.
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Dell’s Futuresville 2.0 office looks into crystal ball
by Mark Cox •
Futuresville 2 – Dell’s Chief Technology Office for Enterprise – discussed their work in identifying key trends and co-ordinating responses within Dell, and talked about some of those trends they deem vitally important going forward.
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Cloud, Data Centre
Microsoft puts a data centre in every Canadian channel partner’s pocket
by Mark Cox •
The going live this week of Microsoft’s two Canadian data centres opens up significant opportunities for both Microsoft – and its channel partners.
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Cloud, Data Centre
New Neutrino Nodes give VCE VxRack System 1000 Cloud Native capacity
by Mark Cox •
The new nodes equip VxRack to support OpenStack, and by next year, will support Hadoop and the VMware Photon Platform as well. They also have the effect of being able to turn Pivotal Cloud Foundry into an end-to-end solution for developers.
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Computers, Data Centre, Storage
Dell, EMC provide update on integration process
by Mark Cox •
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.
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Data Centre, Networking, Servers, Storage
New Nutanix Canada country manager Robert Yelenich promises aggressive expansion
by Mark Cox •
A month ago, Robert Yelenich moved from country manager of Commvault in Canada over to Nutanix, replacing Anton Granic, who had been promoted. Yelenich recently sat down with ChannelBuzz to discuss Nutanix’s Canadian plans for 2016.
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Data Centre, Networking
Riverbed responding to fundamental shift in deployment of IT services
by Mark Cox •
At Riverbed’s partner event, their Chief Strategy Officer outlined a complex and model-driven paradigm of how modern IT services are being transformed digitally, and his view of how the company and its partners need to respond. Interestingly, partners seemed to get it.
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Data Centre, Networking
Riverbed moving into mainstream computing to disrupt the world: CEO Kennelly
by Mark Cox •
Riverbed CEO Jerry Kennelly kicked off Riverbed’s partner event with a forceful keynote in which he stated that Riverbed’s move into SD-WAN will move the company into mainstream networking and create a massive new market opportunity for both Riverbed and its partners, who are their entire route to market.
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Channel Programs, Data Centre, Software
Red Hat boss sets sights on $5B
by Robert Dutt •
Red Hat wants to grow its business dramatically over next five years, including tripling revenues through channel partners.
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Data Centre, Distribution, Software
Stratoscale announces Ingram Micro deal in U.S. and imminent signing of deal for Canada
by Mark Cox •
Stratoscale, which emphasizes its ability to deliver cloud economics to the data centre – rather than the hyperconverged nature of its technology – also made the formal announcement of its PartnerFirst Program for its channel, which is its sole route to market.
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Data Centre, Servers, Storage, Virtualization
Dell strengthens EMC-VMware presence in its hyper-converged portfolio
by Mark Cox •
Beefing up the offerings owned by organizations soon likely to be owned by Dell comes as no surprise, but the vendor also strongly restated its support for its Nutanix-based XC line, while beefing it up as well, and said it’s not going anywhere.
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Cloud, Data Centre, Virtualization
Customers still in early stages in digital business transformation: EMC-VMware study
by Mark Cox •
A new report from EMC and VMware has data on enterprise digital transformation that, except in virtualization, shows customers are far, far short of where they want to be. The sunny side of the story is that many are taking moves to get there.
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Channel Programs, Cloud, Data Centre
Equinix adds first partner training programs as company restructures to strengthen channel
by Mark Cox •
Ex-Rackspace channel chief Chris Rajiah also indicated that following a broad recruitment effort last year, which included mainly agents and referral partners, Equinix is focusing on adding key resellers this year, especially top Microsoft partners.
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Data Centre, Storage, Virtualization
HPE stresses simplicity with new hyper-converged system for the midmarket
by Mark Cox •
The new appliance, built on the ProLiant DL 380, brings a new interface to HPE hyper-converged products, which the company says is extremely user-friendly and easy to use.
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Data Centre, Storage, Virtualization
Nutanix displaces need for separate NAS with Acropolis File Services
by Mark Cox •
Nutanix sees its native file serving solution on the Nutanix Distributed File Storage Fabric as opening up a large new market for it displacing NAS servers, and bringing disruption to a NAS market they say has been ready for it for a while.
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Cloud, Data Centre, Storage
NetApp CEO says new tech trends aid NetApp
by Mark Cox •
At a customer event in Toronto on Wednesday, NetApp CEO George Kurian laid out the company’s case to key customers and partners why the storage pioneer is well positioned for the new age of IT.
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Data Centre, Networking, Servers
New Lenovo, Juniper Networks strategic partnership to have broad channel play
by Mark Cox •
Juniper becomes Lenovo’s strategic networking partner, to build out new data centre solutions and strengthen Lenovo’s growing hyper-converged and converged presence. Lenovo also says the deal will have a strong channel play, and won’t be limited to Lenovo’s highest-end partners.
