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Cloud

Lenovo adds new infrastructure for Microsoft Azure environments

April 6, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on 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.

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Servers

HPE unveils three new ProLiant Gen10 Plus MicroServer Small Business/ ROBO solutions

March 12, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE unveils three new ProLiant Gen10 Plus MicroServer Small Business/ ROBO solutions
The new solutions are based on the newly released Microserver Gen10 Plus HPE released in February, which is half the size of its predecessor, with significantly greater performance.

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Servers

Dell Technologies refreshes PowerEdge servers, software, for edge environments

February 18, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell Technologies refreshes PowerEdge servers, software, for edge environments
Brand new hardware edge solutions begin with the Dell EMC PowerEdge XE2420 server, and the refridgerator-sized Modular Data CenterMicro 415.

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Channel Programs

Dell Technologies sees pluses for partners in internal restructuring efforts

October 18, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell Technologies sees pluses for partners in internal restructuring efforts
Dell’s channel delivered good performance numbers in their now-completed Q2, but the big news for the channel in the quarter may be a pair of management changes at Dell that are related to larger organizational restructuring.

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Channel Programs

Supermicro tweaks partner program with new website, marketing and training resources

October 15, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Supermicro tweaks partner program with new website, marketing and training resources
Supermicro also wants partners to make more use of Centres of Excellence to demonstrate POCs to customers.

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Servers

Dell Technologies rolls out new AMD Rome-powered PowerEdge servers

September 17, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell Technologies rolls out new AMD Rome-powered PowerEdge servers
In addition to the five new servers, which combine the high performance of the new AMD chips with Dell’s own IP, Dell is also announcing related management integrations and new Ready Solutions for HPC on these servers.

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Data Centre

Lenovo sees strong channel opportunity in new single-socket AMD EPYC servers

August 12, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Lenovo sees strong channel opportunity in new single-socket AMD EPYC servers
The first generation of AMD’s EPYC server processors re-established the company in that market, but was mainly a hyperscaler play. The market for the next-generation will be much broader, and a significant opportunity for Lenovo’s channel.

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Servers

HPE upgrades HPE Small Business Solutions portfolio

May 29, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE upgrades HPE Small Business Solutions portfolio
HPE enhances six of their SMB solutions, to provide more customer choice and provide additional performance and capacity.

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Servers

Intel Canada channel chief Phil Vokins sees big impact for new Xeon launch in Canada

April 4, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Intel Canada channel chief Phil Vokins sees big impact for new Xeon launch in Canada
Phil Vokins, Intel Channel Manager in Canada, emphasized that the new 2nd-Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors will greatly expand the ability of Canadian customers to use applications requiring dense memory.

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Servers

Intel emphasizes data-centric transformation of company at new Xeon launch

April 3, 2019 Mark Cox 1
While highlighting its new product, including the new Cascade Lake processors and Optane persistent memory, Intel focused on the way it highlights what they said was a fundamental  transformation of the company.

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Servers

Dell EMC emphasizes synergies between newly-launched Intel processors and its OpenManage software enhancements

April 2, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell EMC emphasizes synergies between newly-launched Intel processors and its OpenManage software enhancements
While the sizzle in the new Intel server processors is the new Optane persistent memory, Dell EMC is emphasizing that new systems management software enhancements will optimize its potential over competitive servers.

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Servers

Lenovo shipping new Cascade Lake-enabled servers and appliances

April 2, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Lenovo shipping new Cascade Lake-enabled servers and appliances
Lenovo  is announcing, and shipping, 15 new ThinkSystem servers and 5 ThinkAgile appliances, which are both optimized to work with Intel’s new Second Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, and add some additional wrinkles of their own.

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Servers

Supermicro unveils huge roster of market-ready Cascade Lake SKUs at Intel launch

April 2, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Supermicro unveils huge roster of market-ready Cascade Lake SKUs at Intel launch
While its large portfolio of SKUs for any and all use cases has always been a key part of Supermicro’s value proposition to the channel, they are emphasizing their Resource Saving Architecture’s power and saving capabilities in the refreshed models.

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Data Centre

Why hyperconverged won’t slow down in 2019: Dell EMC

February 22, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Why hyperconverged won’t slow down in 2019: Dell EMC
Chad Dunn, who runs HCI product management at Dell EMC, thinks the stars are aligned for hyperconverged to continue its breakneck growth rates this year

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Cloud

Nutanix, Intel announce first formal go-to-market partnership around Intel Data Center Block hardware platforms

December 10, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nutanix, Intel announce first formal go-to-market partnership around Intel Data Center Block hardware platforms
Nutanix broadens the server platforms on which its software is available with a new deal with Intel, which will see authorized Nutanix partners be able to brand and personalize the Intel server block platforms.

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Cloud

HPE SMB leader Tim Peters lays out the business unit strategy, with storage being the next target

November 29, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE SMB leader Tim Peters lays out the business unit strategy, with storage being the next target
HPE made a big play in 2018 around servers in the SMB space, followed up by solutions related to hybrid cloud. While those will continue in 2019, the company is also looking to roll out similar initiatives around simplification around storage and hyper-converged solutions for SMBs.

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Cloud

HPE extends hybrid cloud composable strategy with HPE Composable Cloud

November 26, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE extends hybrid cloud composable strategy with HPE Composable Cloud
The big announcement is that the composable capabilities of HPE Synergy has now been extended to rack server environments, but there are several other related goodies, including the expansion of the InfoSight predictive analytics from HPE Nimble beyond storage to all of the infrastructure.

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Servers

Western Digital enters in-memory computing segment with software-defined Memory Extension Drive

November 12, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Western Digital enters in-memory computing segment with software-defined Memory Extension Drive
The first Western Digital offering for this space is the Ultrastar DC ME200 Memory Extension Drive, which augments physical DRAM with between 4x-8x in memory capacity. It will be available to all WD channel partners.

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Servers

Supermicro releases new entry level UP servers with Intel Xeon E-2100 chips

November 5, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Supermicro releases new entry level UP servers with Intel Xeon E-2100 chips
Supermicro believes that the new Xeon chips will allow partners to do more with entry level servers than they have in the past.

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Networking

HPE unveils new SMB hybrid cloud solutions around new ProLiant Gen 10 ML30 and DL20 servers

October 9, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE unveils new SMB hybrid cloud solutions around new ProLiant Gen 10 ML30 and DL20 servers
The new solutions include the last two HPE ProLiant servers to be refreshed with Gen 10 technology, as well as software developed in collaboration with Microsoft, which includes new HPE Rapid Setup Software that HPE says will slash partner install times by up to 70 per cent.

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