Internet of Things

Distribution

Hitachi Vantara expands Internet of Things relationship with Tech Data in North America

March 5, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Hitachi Vantara expands Internet of Things relationship with Tech Data in North America
Hitachi Vantara will leverage Tech Data’s Internet of Things’ capabilities to a greater extent than before, which is critically important in Canada, where new analytics-focused partners need to be recruited, and Tech Data is the sole Hitachi Vantara distributor.

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Big Data

Splunk announces enhanced partner benefits at Global Partner Summit

February 28, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Splunk announces enhanced partner benefits at Global Partner Summit
Last year’s refocus on the channel saw Splunk more than double the size of their partner base. This year they are looking to drive further by enhancing the existing partner tracks and formalizing two new ones.

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Channel Programs

New Hitachi Vantara channel chief pledges change with upcoming IoT-focused partner program

February 15, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on New Hitachi Vantara channel chief pledges change with upcoming IoT-focused partner program
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.

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Cloud

Dell Technologies forecasts big jump in impact of emerging technologies

January 26, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell Technologies forecasts big jump in impact of emerging technologies
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.

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Cloud

AWS poised to capitalize on exponential Internet of Things growth with new services

November 30, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on AWS poised to capitalize on exponential Internet of Things growth with new services
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.

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Internet of Things

Rebuilding the BlackBerry brand

November 15, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Rebuilding the BlackBerry brand
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.

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Internet of Things

New owners to expand Comodo CA presence in enterprise and IoT digital certificate space

November 1, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on New owners to expand Comodo CA presence in enterprise and IoT digital certificate space
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.

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Internet of Things

Tempered Networks announces identity-based industrial IoT gateway

October 24, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Tempered Networks announces identity-based industrial IoT gateway
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.

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Big Data

Tech Data looks to drive channel cloud analytics adoption with 30 Day Program

October 13, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Tech Data looks to drive channel cloud analytics adoption with 30 Day Program
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.

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Internet of Things

Dell announces new IoT organization to improve ‘IQT’ co-ordination among Dell companies

October 10, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell announces new IoT organization to improve ‘IQT’ co-ordination among Dell companies
Dell doubles down on the Internet of Things, announcing a new organization, enhanced funding and a road map for future innovation.

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Internet of Things

Hitachi unveils roadmap to the future

October 2, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Hitachi unveils roadmap to the future
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.

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Internet of Things

Hitachi investment in Internet of Things well-timed for Canada

October 2, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Hitachi investment in Internet of Things well-timed for Canada
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.

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Channel Programs

Hitachi shift in focus to Internet of Things likely to be major plus for channel

September 22, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Hitachi shift in focus to Internet of Things likely to be major plus for channel
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.

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Internet of Things

Hitachi intensifies focus on Internet of Things at inaugural customer event

September 22, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Hitachi intensifies focus on Internet of Things at inaugural customer event
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.

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Data Centre

Hitachi unites three companies into Hitachi Vantara to drive digital change

September 19, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Hitachi unites three companies into Hitachi Vantara to drive digital change
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.

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Channel Programs

ServiceChannel seeks partners to add asset management, IOT to services automation platform

August 30, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on ServiceChannel seeks partners to add asset management, IOT to services automation platform
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.

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VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger at VMworld 2014.
Internet of Things

VMware’s Gelsinger seeks to do the ‘boring, hard’ parts of IOT

July 11, 2017 Robert Dutt Comments Off on VMware’s Gelsinger seeks to do the ‘boring, hard’ parts of IOT
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.”

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Internet of Things

Pure Storage leverages Internet of Things with new Pure1 META AI platform

June 14, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pure Storage leverages Internet of Things with new Pure1 META AI platform
The first product of this technology, designed to understand complex workload relationships with machine learning, is the Pure1 Workload Planner.

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eerti Melkote, senior vice president and general manager of Aruba
Big Data

HPE: Want to succeed in IoT? Figure out the security first

April 19, 2017 Robert Dutt 2
“Without a good security story, companies simply won’t adopt [IoT]. There’s too much at risk,” HPE Aruba’s Keerti Melkote says.

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Internet of Things

Hitachi deepens IoT play with new Hitachi Video Analytics

February 10, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Hitachi deepens IoT play with new Hitachi Video Analytics
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.

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