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Equinix makes major investment in upgrading services for Canadian markets

August 16, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Equinix makes major investment in upgrading services for Canadian markets
The new services, one of which is unique to Canada in North America, will provide new opportunities for Equinix channel partners.

Cloud

Equinix leverages expanding HPE partnership as part of growing channel initiative

June 30, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Equinix leverages expanding HPE partnership as part of growing channel initiative
The launch of HPE GreenLake in Canada in particular, because it coincided with Equinix’s physical expansion in the purchase of additional Canadian data centres, has been an important factor in Equinix’s growth in Canada.

Cloud

Addition of Aruba to GreenLake, new cloud services, highlight flurry of HPE GreenLake enhancements

March 22, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Addition of Aruba to GreenLake, new cloud services, highlight flurry of HPE GreenLake enhancements
Twelve new GreenLake services were introduced, eight of which are modular channel-friendly services from HPE Aruba, two of which are brand new GreenLake services, and the final two are upgrades of services announced last year.

Channel Programs

Solarwinds reorienting Go-to-Market around partners as they expand subscription and move into end-to-end observability

February 22, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Solarwinds reorienting Go-to-Market around partners as they expand subscription and move into end-to-end observability
Solarwinds has not had a full global partner program in the past, but new global channel leader Jeff McCullough is working on one, for the second half of this year.

Cloud

Vultr formally launches partner program with higher margins than offered by big hyperscalers

February 8, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Vultr formally launches partner program with higher margins than offered by big hyperscalers
Vultr competes with the big cloud providers, focusing on core compute, storage and networking services, and offering customers lower prices and partners higher margins.

Cloud

Dell unveils new edge, telecom solutions

October 13, 2021 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell unveils new edge, telecom solutions
The announcements being made today at this year’s Dell Summit all revolve around the company’s newer edge and telecom businesses.

Computers

Intel announces detailed process and packaging roadmaps to drive innovation

July 27, 2021 Mark Cox Comments Off on Intel announces detailed process and packaging roadmaps to drive innovation
Intel presented a roadmap of process and packaging innovations to power their next wave of products through 2025, which they said will get back to process performance parity – and then leadership.

Artificial Intelligence

HPE CEO Neri ties vision into new product announcements at HPE Discover

June 23, 2021 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE CEO Neri ties vision into new product announcements at HPE Discover
HPE’s CEO discussed how the new announcements around HPE Lighthouse, Project Aurora, Silicon on-Demand and compute as-a-service drives HPE’s vision forward, and also commented on their just announced acquisition of DeterminedAI.

Cloud

HPE GreenLake is focal point for HPE Discover announcements

June 22, 2021 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE GreenLake is focal point for HPE Discover announcements
HPE kicked off its Discover event with a flurry of announcements around HPE GreenLake, including GreenLake Lighthouse, Project Aurora, Silicon-on-Demand, a new Compute Cloud Console – and eight new services.

Channel Programs

Place to be is the channel as channel momentum is on fire: Dell channel chief Dagher

June 15, 2021 Mark Cox Comments Off on Place to be is the channel as channel momentum is on fire: Dell channel chief Dagher
Dell’s global channel chief Rola Dagher talked with ChannelBuzz about the state of the Dell channel today, and the priorities for the rest of the year ahead.