Servers

SalesBuzz

Selling Dell: Bill Rodrigues, North American President, talks strategy

September 17, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Selling Dell: Bill Rodrigues, North American President, talks strategy
Dell pledges that the changes made to internal sales and its relationship to the channel will continue, because they have invested so much in it that major change would be foolish.

Data Centre

Lenovo expands hyperconverged portfolio with SimpliVity alliance

August 20, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Lenovo expands hyperconverged portfolio with SimpliVity alliance
Lenovo announces its second hyperconverged partnership this week, which like the first is focused primarily on the SMB space, where Lenovo is initially focusing with its hyperconverged strategy.

Data Centre

Lenovo, StorMagic partner on hyperconverged low cost ROBO solutions

August 17, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Lenovo, StorMagic partner on hyperconverged low cost ROBO solutions
Lenovo teams up with software-defined storage vendor StorMagic to offer three new hyperconverged offerings. They are unlikely to be their last.

Servers

HP announces second generation of hyperconverged StoreVirtual appliances

August 4, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on HP announces second generation of hyperconverged StoreVirtual appliances
The new CS 250 is a much-enhanced followup to the appliance HP first announced in December at HP Discover, and which came to market earlier this year.

Hardware

Savage IO relaunches with new converged hardware storage solution

July 28, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Savage IO relaunches with new converged hardware storage solution
The company’s new SavageStor architecture features 12 SAS lanes with 25 GB/s throughput, part of a design intended to completely remove bottlenecks inside the server and address needs of customers who require high performance and throughput.

Channel Programs

Dell reports solid channel growth in Q1

June 8, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell reports solid channel growth in Q1
Dell indicated good progress on their green fields discount initiative, overall commercial business, and partner education efforts. While the number of partners using Dell financing jumped considerably in Q1, the company wants more participation there. Plus, still no firm date on when Dell will team up with SYNNEX in Canada.

Hardware

Designing Dell: Dell’s Industrial Design team talks turkey with media

May 29, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Designing Dell: Dell’s Industrial Design team talks turkey with media
Dell’s hardware designers explain their original mandate, to turn Dell from a follower to a leader in product innovation, and discuss their design philosophy and principles that underlay the large degree of success they have in this area now compared to a decade ago.

Servers

Hungry Lenovo ramping up server channel efforts in drive for top spot

May 21, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Hungry Lenovo ramping up server channel efforts in drive for top spot
The company has put measures in place to drive North American server sales through the channel, and while it is still a distant fourth in server revenues, they are eager to make up ground this year.

Data Centre

Hyperconverged startup Stratoscale gears up for late summer product release

May 15, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Hyperconverged startup Stratoscale gears up for late summer product release
Stratoscale emerged from stealth late last year with some powerful vendor investors, a unique hyperconverged value proposition and a 100 per cent channel strategy. The plan is for the product to be available this summer.

Big Data

Dell unveils new top of line PowerEdge R930 server

April 28, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell unveils new top of line PowerEdge R930 server
Dell says its new 4U, 4 socket rack offering will offer a much better price-performance alternative to legacy RISC-based systems, and one that should appeal to partners who serve the Big Data analytics market.