RackWare is not yet using distribution in North America, but distributors growing role as cloud aggregators or brokers means they will likely look at this next year.
October 1, 2014Mark CoxComments Off on Plantronics unveils new family of headsets for contact centre market
Plantronics says their new family of lightweight headsets with noise cancelling technology are designed to change what headsets provide to an organization.
September 16, 2014Mark CoxComments Off on Permabit unveils appliance to let large storage OEMs strike back at hyperscale upstarts
Permabit’s SANblox appliance is the software vendor’s first hardware product, requested by the big storage OEMs to help them fend off competition from the new hyperscale vendors.
September 16, 2014Mark CoxComments Off on New A3CUBE hyperconverged system gives in-memory direct acceleration to applications
A3Cube uses enhanced PCIe architecture to provide in-memory direct acceleration to existing applications, is compatible with the big storage OEMs rather than competitive with them. and goes to market entirely through channel partners.
September 16, 2014Mark CoxComments Off on Dimension Data rolls out globally standardized managed services for data centres
The solution provider looks to capitalize on a trend where 70 per cent of private cloud adopters will utilize third parties to manage their environments.
In certain sectors, a Canadian cloud data centre is now a de facto requirement, especially in the public sector, health care and financial services, because while it may not be a regulatory requirement, it has become mandatory in many RFPs.
With new funding and new markets to tap, Nutanix sees the debut of VMware’s Evo family of products as evidence for further convergence of infrastructure.
Feeds and speeds of individual servers await later rollouts, but HP is promising three times the compute power of Gen8 servers, and a focus server strategy for the modern data centre.
VMware sees growth in cloud and end user computing, and tells partners it has to shift its sales motion as it becomes much more than a one-product company.