Data Centre

HPE extends software-defined storage strategy

June 7, 2016 Mark Cox 1

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.

Dell announces breakthrough in liquid cooling technology

June 2, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

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.

Dell’s Futuresville 2.0 office looks into crystal ball

June 2, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

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.

Microsoft puts a data centre in every Canadian channel partner’s pocket

May 13, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

The going live this week of Microsoft’s two Canadian data centres opens up significant opportunities for both Microsoft – and its channel partners.

New Neutrino Nodes give VCE VxRack System 1000 Cloud Native capacity

May 3, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

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.

Dell, EMC provide update on integration process

May 2, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

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.

New Nutanix Canada country manager Robert Yelenich promises aggressive expansion

April 12, 2016 Mark Cox 1

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.

Riverbed responding to fundamental shift in deployment of IT services

April 7, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

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.

Riverbed moving into mainstream computing to disrupt the world: CEO Kennelly

April 6, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

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.