Servers

Dell rides channel to exceptionally strong quarter

Dell’s third quarter improved on its already strong first half, with its channel business doing particularly well in core legacy areas like its server and client businesses.

Windows Server Explained Power by Intel® Xeon® Series: ROKing Windows Server with Lenovo

In this edition of the podcast, Kirk and Devlin are joined by Louis Brunetto and Aaron Rothfuss of Lenovo to discuss how Windows Server, Xeon processors and Lenovo servers bring opportunity to partners.

Lenovo expands TruScale as-a-Service to encompass entire portfolio

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.

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.

Western Digital unveils new Ultrastar Edge server family

Two versions of the new AI and machine learning-heavy servers for edge environments were announced, a balanced commercial version and a more rugged military spec version, but different versions for more specific use cases are likely going forward.

Dell Technologies builds out edge strategy with new and enhanced edge solutions

The new offering is the first of what will be a family of Dell Technologies manufacturing edge solutions, while the upgraded one is a new version of the Dell EMC Streaming Data Platform.

New HPE Canada President Mike Hilton sees Canada ripe for GreenLake as-a-service offerings

Almost everything in HPE’s portfolio is already available as a service, and while Canadian customers have been somewhat slow to warm to the new model, Hilton says that’s changing in a big way.

Lenovo announces ThinkSystem servers with new Intel processors

Lenovo is unveiling eight new servers using the just-announced Intel Ice Lake processors, with four of them representing specialized use cases, and expanding the portfolio of Lenovo servers with Neptune liquid cooling.

Lenovo makes new edge, datacentre and services-related HCI announcements

These include an industry first 4U 8-socket platform for large HANA deployments that has been certified by SAP and VMware, and  their ThinkAgile HX1021, which extends last year’s edge enhancements for Lenovo’s Microsoft platform to the Nutanix stack.

AMD looks to continue momentum vs Intel with new 3rd Gen EPYC ‘Milan’

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.

Mike Sharun to retire from Dell Canada in the spring, with Pam Pelletier named as successor

Big changes afoot at Dell Technologies in Canada, with Mike Sharun, who had spent the last 23 years at Dell and EMC, announcing he will retire in the spring, with Pam Pelletier named as his replacement.

NVIDIA introduces NVIDIA-Certified Systems program to identify systems validated on accelerated AI workloads

The first 13 systems from five OEMs to be certified have been announced, but NVIDIA expects that before long, about 70 systems from 15 OEMs will meet their engineering requirements for certification.

Dell focuses on protecting supply chain with new security enhancements

Dell has unveiled multiple security enhancements which the company is stressing continues improvements being embedded into their technology, with an emphasis here on validating security throughout the supply chain.

Cohesity introduces new I/O Boost technology around joint all-flash solutions with Cisco and HPE

The partnerships around Cisco and HPE all-flash servers  are backed by Joint selling and marketing programs, in what is a major initiative for all the companies involved.

Dell decouples OneFS software from hardware and puts it in servers with PowerScale brand

The new PowerScale OneFS operating system introduces new software capabilities, including DataIQ, which complements CloudIQ by extending insights to data and making them more broadly accessible.

Dell unveils new Dell EMC Ready solutions to spur AI in VMware environments

The channel will be the primary seller of these new solutions, which leverage the Bitfusion technology VMware acquired last year, and which has now been incorporated into vSphere.

Lenovo adds new infrastructure for Microsoft Azure environments

The Lenovo ThinkAgile MX1021 is a turnkey HCI appliance designed around the Microsoft Azure Stack for edge use cases, while the ThinkSystem DM7100 is an NVMe-powered unified storage array whose tiering capabilities are well suited to hybrid cloud strategies.