Data Centre

Atlantis unveils two node hyperconverged appliance for ROBO market

January 12, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

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.

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

January 7, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

HP names a well-known Canadian channel veteran as the replacement for Lloyd Bryant in Canada.

Dell looks to drive innovation in networking

January 6, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

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.

HPE debuts composable infrastructure lineup

December 8, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off

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.

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

December 8, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

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.

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

November 17, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

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.

Nutanix adds another big strategic partnership with Lenovo deal

November 4, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

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.