Big Data

Skyera brings second generation of dense skyHawk flash array to market

October 29, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off

In addition to being lightweight and energy efficient, the new skyhawk FS offers price parity with HDD systems “without tricks”, at $2.99 per GB.

CompTIA Canadian group rebrands, expands focus

October 15, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off

CompTIA’s Canadian IT Community eyes expanded national focus, membership drive, creation of trustmark for Canadian IT solution providers.

Damian Serjeant, general manager of Cisco Canada’s data centre business.

Cisco sees UCS Mini opening up Canadian market

September 4, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Cisco’s new UCS Mini server is designed for the remote office market, but the new entry-level offering opens up the SMB-heavy Canadian market to UCS.

Secrets of selling to the CIO

September 3, 2014 Guest Poster Comments Off

Five things to do — and five things to avoid — when trying to sell to the CIO, direct from Avnet CIO Steve Phillips.

PROMISE Technology launches FileCruiser private cloud solution

August 20, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off

The long-time maker of RAID controllers and subsystems embarks on its first venture in the cloud, and its first software application venture, with plans to expand it into a hybrid cloud offering.

SaaS BI vendor SiSense names first channel chief

August 18, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off

SiSense has a short sales cycle for BI, and is offering aggressive margins, including the same margins on renewals.

IBM CEO Virginia Rometty and Apple CEO Tim Cook strike an alliance to bring iPads and iPhones into the enterprise.

Apple, IBM partner to tackle mobile enterprise

July 16, 2014 Larry Walsh (Channelnomics) Comments Off

IBM and Apple have formed a partnership to make iPhones and iPad more valuable enterprise tools, and build a new, growth-oriented act for both companies.

IBM unveils new Big Data data management service

July 15, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off

IBM debuts Elastic Storage, a software-defined storage-as-a-service offering built on SoftLayer that can be implemented 100% cloud, or on a hybrid model.