Data Centre

New VCE VxRack designed to bring appliance simplicity to datacentre

May 4, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

EMC sees this as a new category of product, which provides the same benefits as hyperconverged appliances provide, but to the datacentre, where the appliances do not scale well.

Canadian channel needs to step up on hybrid cloud: EMC’s Kerr

April 17, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

The rapid rise of mobility, and the user expectations it has created, plus the very real promise of integrated analytics, have changed the universe where solution providers operate, and they need to adjust or lose major opportunities.

Paul Wilkinson, director of product management at Tech Data Canada

CyberPower expands Tech Data relationship to Canada

April 16, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Distributor Tech Data will add CyberPower Systems’ power management solutions to its Advanced Infrastructure Systems lineup.

Why heresy is good business strategy: Dell’s Armughan Ahmad

April 10, 2015 Mark Cox 1

Digital disruption is intensifying IT democratization, and Dell is responding with a datacentre strategy which some competitors likely consider heresy, but which Dell believes is the wave of the future.

EMC Federation Business Data Lake to be strong play for top partners

March 23, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

The Federation Business Data Lake greatly expands EMC’s converged Big Data offerings, and while only EMC’s more sophisticated partners will likely be able to sell it, it will be available to them.

Dell announces next generation of XC series converged appliances with Nutanix software

February 25, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

The new offerings benefit from the thirteenth generation of Dell servers, but also have new configurability and support flexibility options which can bring down the price point significantly.

Scale Computing enhances hyperconverged platform interface for SMBs in 6.0 release

February 24, 2015 Mark Cox 1

Scale is placing its bet on the SMB space, and the latest changes to its platform bring more of the simplicity that market wants.

Amazon, IBM, Microsoft top Canadian cloud provider market

February 23, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

IBM and Microsoft enter the Leaders category in cloud in Canada for the first time, while eight companies classified as Major Players are closely grouped.