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Citrix rebound mirrors improved performance in Canada

May 25, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Citrix rebound mirrors improved performance in Canada
Citrix’s Canadian country manager Michael Murphy talks about the company’s turnaround, what customers in Canada are looking for, and the new opportunities he sees emerging in Canada for the company and its channel partners.

Cloud

Citrix CEO Tatarinov lays out Citrix vision, and strategy to get there

May 24, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Citrix CEO Tatarinov lays out Citrix vision, and strategy to get there
Citrix CEO Kiril Tatarinov, at his first Citrix Synergy since taking over the company helm earlier this year, outlined to the company’s customers where he plans to take the company.

Cloud

API platform vendor Apigee seeing strong results from SAP partnership

May 24, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on API platform vendor Apigee seeing strong results from SAP partnership
SAP and Apigee are both seeing good synergies from their approximately two year-old partnership, the type of ISV alliance strongly being broadly pursued by both companies.

Big Data

Sad news: SAP Anywhere launch in Canada delayed indefinitely

May 19, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Sad news: SAP Anywhere launch in Canada delayed indefinitely
SAP Anywhere formally launched in the U.S. this week. But while demand for the small business-focused CRM solution is strong, a change in SAP’s SMB applications strategy has led to the Canadian launch being put on hold for now.

Big Data

New Dell Validated System for SAP HANA Edge to bring HANA to SMBs

May 18, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on New Dell Validated System for SAP HANA Edge to bring HANA to SMBs
Other Dell SAP-related initiatives announced at SAPPHIRE NOW included ones around the Internet of Things, cloud blueprints to optimize SAP environments, and a new optimized architecture for SAP Foundation for Health.

Big Data

New HDS UCP1000 for SAP HANA to be strong mid-market partner play

May 18, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on New HDS UCP1000 for SAP HANA to be strong mid-market partner play
Hitachi Data Systems has greatly deepened its strategic relationship with SAP around HANA in the last several years, and its new announcements, which cover from the low end of the market to the high, broaden that portfolio.

Storage

Tintri launches scale-out all-flash platform for private clouds

May 17, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Tintri launches scale-out all-flash platform for private clouds
The VM-aware storage vendor also announced new predictive analytics capabilities, nine new all-flash model options, and two new cloud offerings.

Cloud

Hosted workspace vendor CloudJumper spins off from nGenx with unique licensing

May 3, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Hosted workspace vendor CloudJumper spins off from nGenx with unique licensing
CloudJumper thinks its option of a concurrent user licensing model will be particularly popular in larger enterprise accounts, because rather than a license for each named user, it requires only licenses for the maximum number using the offering at the same time.

Big Data

HDS adds full native unified capability, predictive analytics to unified VSP G series

April 26, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on HDS adds full native unified capability, predictive analytics to unified VSP G series
The enhancements to the HDS unified storage platform aimed at the enterprise and mid-market also now allow cloud tiering from the appliance itself, and new support for VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes assists performance in virtualized environments.

Big Data

Dell launches first wave of its Internet of Things Partner program for ISVs

April 19, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell launches first wave of its Internet of Things Partner program for ISVs
Dell has formally launched a program with about 25 ISVs, but also makes it clear this is a pretty basic first step. Several months down the line they say there will be more useful functionality for partners, and also a lot more of them.