Kimberly King, who now runs the Hitachi Vantara channel, indicated that the new program will be announced in April and will be rolled out in stages after that. She also noted that it will be very different from the existing Hitachi True North program.
From big picture developments like the emergence of fully orchestrated capabilities to manage workloads across public clouds, to more focused things like the growth of Augmented Reality headsets in business, Dell Technologies takes a stab at projecting the near-term adoption of futuristic technologies.
The new AWS services include a service to get started in IoT, one to manage fleets of devices, ones for security and analytics, one for small devices without CPUs, and one to run machine learning at the edge.
BlackBerry senior executives discuss the progress of their strategy to rebuild the company and their brand, and where they are going on the road ahead.
Comodo had an extensive hoster and MSP channel before being acquired, and the new leadership team brought in by Francisco Partners will be expanding the channel, especially among enterprise resellers with vertical focus, and into the Internet of Things.
Tempered Networks’ sweet spot for their identity-based networking products has always been the industrial IoT segment, but the new HIPswitch 250 strengthens their presence there.
The program, which Tech Data sees as a differentiator for them in the market, is designed to provide a repeatable cloud data migration and integration framework that will provide a proof of value in under 30 days.
Dell doubles down on the Internet of Things, announcing a new organization, enhanced funding and a road map for future innovation.
Hitachi made multiple announcements of significance at their recent NEXT customer show, but they also gave some high level guidance about what’s coming in 2018.
Marcel Escorcio, the former head of HDS in Canada who now runs the new Hitachi Vantara company, discusses why he believes that Canada will be an exceptionally strong market for Hitachi’s increased emphasis on the Internet of Things.
Hitachi Data Systems’ former channels head in Canada, who has moved over to Vantara, and a top Canadian partner share their views on what the restructuring and Internet of Things re-emphasis will mean for the channel.
In addition to forming a new company, Vantara, to consolidate around the IoT opportunity, Hitachi rebooted their Lumada IoT platform and announced their first IoT appliance, based on Lumada. While they were never close to the top in enterprise storage, their goal is to be the leader in the IoT space.
Hitachi has merged Hitachi Data Systems, Hitachi Insight Group and Pentaho into a new company aimed at being on the cutting edge of digital innovation.
ServiceChannel has sold their SaaS service automation platform for facilities managers and contractors direct for years, but technology-related demands have led them to create a partner program to provide the skillsets to integrate with their platform.
VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger discusses how the Internet of Things will empower “a beautiful competition of business models” and why security is “a screwed-up industry.”
The first product of this technology, designed to understand complex workload relationships with machine learning, is the Pure1 Workload Planner.
“Without a good security story, companies simply won’t adopt [IoT]. There’s too much at risk,” HPE Aruba’s Keerti Melkote says.
Hitachi adds a Video Analytics solution to its Internet of Things portfolio, which also includes the Hitachi Video Management Platform and the Hitachi Visualization Suite.
Other IDC projections for the year ahead include strong partner moves into the digital transformation market, an emphasis on Customer Success programs, and changes to vendor Partner Success models.
Ingenu delivers wireless M2M connectivity using their RPMA technology, and is looking to Arrow to bundle their connectivity with Arrow’s own services offerings.
