The TOUGHBOOK 40 is a major upgrade of the old TOUGHBOOK 31, with the addition of new features like eight new modular areas.
Hardware, Mobility
Panasonic unveils new fully rugged clamshell TOUGHBOOK 40
by Mark Cox •
Hardware
Artificial Intelligence, Hardware, Software
Intel unveils new hardware, software and services at inaugural Intel Vision 2022 event
by Mark Cox •
Intel also provided updates on several important projects and other future items, which are still some distance on the horizon.
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Hardware, Software
Intel top brass discuss strategy going forward with media at Intel Vision
by Mark Cox •
Intel CEO Gelsinger and his lieutenants acknowledged that Intel had fallen off in execution in recent years, but has taken aggressive steps, including internal reorganization of the company and building out its supply chain, to make these non-issues going forward.
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Channel Programs, Digital Signage, Hardware
Hybrid work, education drive very strong ViewSonic Canada first quarter
by Mark Cox •
The gains were similar to those in the U.S, which is impressive because the Interactive Flat Panel business is more advanced in the U.S. than in Canada.
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Hardware, Hyper-converged, Servers, Storage
Dell hardware sales through partners help propel record setting Q4 and 2021
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Dell’s hardware business benefited greatly from organizations, at this stage of their tech rebuild, needing to refresh a hardware base in data centres that was at least two years old, and generally older than that.
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Cloud, Hardware
Despite rise of cloud, hardware remains largest component of IT budgets
by Mark Cox •
A new global study by Spiceworks Ziff Davis into the state of server and client computing devices has found that despite the rise of the cloud, computer hardware still accounts for the largest portion of overall tech spending, at 30% of overall IT budgets.
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Hardware
Gamers biggest (but not only) winners with newly added 12th Gen Intel Core mobile and desktop processors
by Mark Cox •
The expanded 12th Gen Intel Core Desktop Processor family adds 22 new SKUs, while the new H series mobile CPUs are aimed at content creators as well as gamers and enthusiasts, and the new 12th Gen Intel Core U- and P-series mobile processors are aimed at the more conventional thin and light market.
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Hardware, Servers, Storage
Lenovo expands TruScale as-a-Service to encompass entire portfolio
by Mark Cox •
The expansion of TruScale into a company-wide offering was part of a major series of announcements, that included the related Hitachi Brain AI service and the Project Unity wireless connectivity framework.
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Hardware, Storage
Western Digital launches new OptiNAND technology which combines flask and HDD in new architecture
by Mark Cox •
WDD is also emphasizing that OptiNAND is not another hybrid architecture, but a new type of technology that enhances the HDD with flash to improve the drive’s aerial density, performance and reliability.
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Intel announces its biggest architectural shifts in a generation
by Mark Cox •
Intel’s 2021 Architecture Day previewed multiple upcoming products, with the likely highlight being the Alder Lake CPUs, which rethinks multi-core architecture by offering both efficient and performance cores, with a new Intel Thread Director selecting the optimal one to be used.
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Computers, Data Centre, Hardware
Intel announces detailed process and packaging roadmaps to drive innovation
by Mark Cox •
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.
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Channel Programs, Hardware
ViewSonic moves on from Finch Club with refreshed ViewSonic Partner Program
by Mark Cox •
The main feature of the new program is a new partner portal, which is integrated with Salesforce and provides much quicker access to materials and response times from ViewSonic than was the case in the past.
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Hardware, Storage
Consumer and gaming tech highlights news at Western Digital Flash event, but nuggets still there for partners
by Mark Cox •
Some major gaming announcements will have implications for resellers and integrators who work that market, as will a new embedded flash platform for Universal Flash Storage 3.1, while a partnership with Percona around their MySQL Server will be of interest in the enterprise.
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Distribution, Hardware
D&H sees Canada as good market for its newly established gaming and Esports unit
by Mark Cox •
D&H has established a new Business Unit around their gaming components and Esports business, and while Esports has been much stronger in the U.S. then Canada to date, they see strong prospects in Canada as well.
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Artificial Intelligence, Hardware, Partnerships
Lenovo targets growing AI market in mainstream enterprises with five new ready to deploy AI solutions
by Mark Cox •
The emphasis with the five new offerings, using technology from Addfor, Everseen, cnvrg.io, SAS and NetApp, is on the solutions’ ease of deployment, removing a barrier that has stymied many enterprises from getting AI products into production.
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Hardware, Servers
AMD looks to continue momentum vs Intel with new 3rd Gen EPYC ‘Milan’
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AMD’s 2nd generation EPYC chips, Rome, made AMD’s big push in the data centre, and now with more third-party server vendors on board than ever before, they are looking to extend that edge with Milan.
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Artificial Intelligence, Channel Programs, Cloud, Hardware, Internet of Things
COVID’s impact on the Channel in Canada: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
by Mark Cox •
A study commissioned by Intel specifically in Canada found that most channel partners have suffered from the pandemic. There was a fair amount of optimism for the year ahead however, although many partners said they need help to realize emerging opportunities in the cloud, IoT and AI.
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Hardware, Managed Services, Software
ScalePad offers partners bullish outlook, new incents at first big partner event since rebranding
by Mark Cox •
ScalePad’s introductory free trial of their Software Asset Management ends December 31, but the company announced new measures to replace it at their virtual conference for their MSPs on Monday.
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Computers, Hardware
Dell enters ultra-small form factor workstation market with new Precision 3240 Compact
by Mark Cox •
The Dell Precision 3240 Compact will compete with the HP Mini and the Lenovo Tiny, at a new low price point – unless a customer opts for the high end NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 option, which will be available in October.
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Third Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors highlight broad Intel product announcements
by Mark Cox •
The new Cooper Lake processors, and the other components of the Intel announcement, all share a focus on improving AI-related capabilities.
