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Nutanix looks to move beyond hyperconverged with new software release

February 16, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nutanix looks to move beyond hyperconverged with new software release
Nutanix’s 4.6 software release enables key features to its platform announced last summer, as part of their longer-run strategy to be an Amazon-like infrastructure for the enterprise cloud.

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Cloud

New products and plan in place: Avaya now needs to execute

February 3, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on New products and plan in place: Avaya now needs to execute
After a long restructuring, Avaya now has its two core next-gen offerings available, and has a systematic and well thought out plan to take them to market, leveraging both its channel and internal resources better than in the past. They still have to execute on these better than in the past however.

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Data Centre

Pivot3 looks to rule hyperconverged space with NexGen acquisition

January 28, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pivot3 looks to rule hyperconverged space with NexGen acquisition
The combination of the two companies give them what they believe are enormous synergies that can propel them to a leadership role in the hyperconverged space that neither company remotely aspired to when they were separate.

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Cloud

Cloud management startup CliQr making channel push in 2016

January 26, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cloud management startup CliQr making channel push in 2016
CliQr has been cautious in developing a channel, but is now expanding its go-to-market strategy with both resellers and technology partners.

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Data Centre

Plexistor’s software-defined memory platform reaches the market

January 26, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Plexistor’s software-defined memory platform reaches the market
Plexistor’s Software Defined Memory architecture converges memory and storage technologies to drastically reduce latency and significantly improve performance of data-intensive applications.

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Data Centre

Commvault extends Nutanix partnership with support for Acropolis hypervisor

January 20, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Commvault extends Nutanix partnership with support for Acropolis hypervisor
Commvault becomes the first data protection vendor to offer support for Nutanix’s own hypervisor, improving the capabilities of their customers and partners in the Nutanix environment.

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Cloud

Citrix advice to partners: Follow the apps!

January 12, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Citrix advice to partners: Follow the apps!
While Citrix did not unveil any new technology products at its Summit event, it did talk extensively about its product strategy.

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Channel Programs

New mid-market success kits, partner services opportunities highlight Citrix channel changes

January 12, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on New mid-market success kits, partner services opportunities highlight Citrix channel changes
Citrix channel chief Kimberly Martin was brought into the company last fall to restructure and improve the company’s channel operations. She discusses her mission, the changes that she announced at her first Citrix Summit, and what remains on the drawing board.

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Data Centre

Atlantis unveils two node hyperconverged appliance for ROBO market

January 12, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Atlantis unveils two node hyperconverged appliance for ROBO market
Atlantis also announced a new relationship with Dell, the only major OEM for whom its software was not customized when the first Atlantis hyperconverged products were announced last year.

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Computers

Mary Ann Yule to come from CDW Canada to run HP Canada Co.

January 7, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Mary Ann Yule to come from CDW Canada to run HP Canada Co.
HP names a well-known Canadian channel veteran as the replacement for Lloyd Bryant in Canada.

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Cloud

Dell looks to drive innovation in networking

January 6, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell looks to drive innovation in networking
Dell is sending a message to its Canadian partners and customers that it intends to double down on innovation notwithstanding its growing even larger with the pending acquisition of EMC.

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Cloud

HPE debuts composable infrastructure lineup

December 8, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off on HPE debuts composable infrastructure lineup
HPE shows off the first members of its Synergy family of systems that pool compute, storage, and networking for a more cloud-like data centre.

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Data Centre

Stratoscale targets test-dev market with launch of software-defined architecture

December 8, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Stratoscale targets test-dev market with launch of software-defined architecture
The hyperconverged startup emphasizes the end product, a highly scalable out-of-the-box private cloud initially focused on development and testing environments, rather than the hyperconverged label itself, which they think has been somewhat overused.

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Data Centre

Scale Computing ramps up Canadian staff, resources for big 2016 push

November 17, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Scale Computing ramps up Canadian staff, resources for big 2016 push
Scale, which is distinct among the hyperconverged vendors with its SMB focus, is not new to Canada, but they have added new staff and resources here, and developed new relationships with key DMRs to take their Canadian business to the next level.

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Data Centre

Nutanix adds another big strategic partnership with Lenovo deal

November 4, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nutanix adds another big strategic partnership with Lenovo deal
Nutanix sees the Lenovo deal as equal in importance to the Dell one inked last year and said its announcement shortly after Dell’s purchase of EMC is a coincidence. The plan is to get jointly branded products to market through Lenovo in Q1 of 2016.

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Data Centre

Dell lays out aggressive strategy to partners for North America expansion

October 20, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell lays out aggressive strategy to partners for North America expansion
Dell’s North American head Bill Rodrigues laid out Dell’s plans for growth to partners at Dell’s PartnerDirect Summit at Dell World.

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Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell
Cloud

Dell snaps up EMC in $67B US mega-deal

October 13, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Dell snaps up EMC in $67B US mega-deal
Dell and EMC execs say the combined company will be an IT powerhouse from the SMB to the largest enterprise.

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Greg Myers, senior vice president of sales and marketing at Tech Data Canada.
Data Centre

SimpliVity signs on Tech Data Canada as exclusive distributor

October 7, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off on SimpliVity signs on Tech Data Canada as exclusive distributor
Hyper-converged vendor SimpliVity will seek to grow its market in Canada with an exclusive distribution pact with Tech Data Canada.

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Data Centre

Nutanix aggressively claiming mantle of ‘only true hyperconverged player’

September 10, 2015 Mark Cox 1
At a customer event in Toronto Wednesday, Nutanix presented the audience with a full-throated positioning of themselves as well ahead of their competition, and also gave an update on their progress in Canada

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Raghu Raghuram, software-defined data centre chief at VMWare.
Data Centre

VMware continues its hyper-converged journey with EVO SDDC

September 4, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off on VMware continues its hyper-converged journey with EVO SDDC
VMware’s new Evo SDDC spec takes its converged architecture play into the high end, aiming to simply create software-defined data centres.

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