Big Data

Big Data

Talend emphasizes more creative, flexible training in partner program changes

March 26, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Talend emphasizes more creative, flexible training in partner program changes
Talend is looking to make it easier for their Big Data and cloud-focused partners to build the new and complex integrations now required when delivering Talend in projects.

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Big Data

Hitachi Vantara improves time-to-value for data scientists with new machine learning model management

March 7, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Hitachi Vantara improves time-to-value for data scientists with new machine learning model management
Pentaho machine learning capabilities have been extended with new model management functionality that reduces the amount of time data scientists need to spend manually rewriting algorithms.

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Storage

Dell EMC rethinks converged infrastructure with next-gen VxBlock System 1000

February 13, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell EMC rethinks converged infrastructure with next-gen VxBlock System 1000
While in the old Dell EMC converged lineup, a System 1000 would have been a new high-end model, the new VXBlock completely restructures the approach, and integrates all storage types in one offering. It makes this a single-model family with additional flexibility, greater cost efficiencies and simplified lifecycle management.

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Cloud

Seeing 2020 – A Vision of the Future for Channel Partners

February 12, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Seeing 2020 – A Vision of the Future for Channel Partners
Nancy Teixeira, Vice President of Scale-up & Enterprise at Sage discusses the 4th Industrial revolution and the biggest trends already impacting channel partners

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Servers

Dell EMC brings AMD back to the enterprise with new servers aimed at edge, IoT and HPC use cases

February 6, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell EMC brings AMD back to the enterprise with new servers aimed at edge, IoT and HPC use cases
The new AMD EPYC processors, which were announced last June, make their first appearance in three new Dell EMC 14th Gen servers aimed at more demanding use cases.

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Cloud

Dell Technologies forecasts big jump in impact of emerging technologies

January 26, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell Technologies forecasts big jump in impact of emerging technologies
From big picture developments like the emergence of fully orchestrated capabilities to manage workloads across public clouds, to more focused things like the growth of Augmented Reality headsets in business, Dell Technologies takes a stab at projecting the near-term adoption of futuristic technologies.

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Big Data

Adobe steps up Experience Cloud Big Data support with Hadoop support

January 19, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Adobe steps up Experience Cloud Big Data support with Hadoop support
Extension of Federated Data Access connectors to Hadoop will be significant in the high end of the market, and for Adobe channel partners who work in that space.

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Big Data

Accelerite broadens Big Data analytics platform beyond developers with ShareInsights 2.0

December 12, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Accelerite broadens Big Data analytics platform beyond developers with ShareInsights 2.0
The Accelerite BI analytics program has undergone a major revamp since its original version to make it easier to use, which in turn will broaden its usage and make it easier to collaborate.

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Cloud

New AWS services resonate with Canadian customers, channel partners

December 7, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on New AWS services resonate with Canadian customers, channel partners
AWS made such a flurry of announcements at last week’s re:Invent event that it was sometimes difficult to keep track. Canadian partners and customers at the event did, however, have pretty clear ideas about what they liked.

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Cloud

AWS looks to make developers as creative as musicians with new services

November 30, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on AWS looks to make developers as creative as musicians with new services
AWS CEO Andy Jassy used his keynote presentation at AWS re:Invent to announce a flood of new services intended to empower developers and make them more creative.

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