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Channel Programs

HPE pledges to further ramp up channel commitment at Global Partner Summit

by Mark Cox • June 19, 2018

HPE outlined its goals for its channel for the year ahead, together with new and planned initiatives to help them get there.

StorMagic partners with Cisco, Citrix on edge appliance designed for Citrix Workspace Service

by Mark Cox • May 10, 2018

The new StorMagic appliance, leveraging its relationship with two of their strategic partners, will go to market through the Cisco channel.

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

by Mark Cox • February 13, 2018

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.

Cisco sees powerful channel opportunities in fifth generation UCS

by Mark Cox • July 17, 2017

In addition to the performance boost from the new Intel processors, Cisco is also touting its new Cisco Workload Optimization Manager software, which comes through an OEM deal with Turbonomic.

“There’s a method to the madness:” Nutanix CEO Pandey talks strategy

by Mark Cox • July 5, 2017

Nutanix founder and CEO Dheeraj Pandey talks about where the company is headed, on multiple fronts.

Dell upgrades four-socket server portfolio

by Mark Cox • June 6, 2016

The enhancements reflect the increased capacity of Intel’s new Xeon E7 and E5 v4 processor. Dell has also refreshed its PowerEdge R830 rack server, which had not been updated since 2011.

Dell announces both Intel-related and internal improvements to their PowerEdge servers

by Mark Cox • April 4, 2016

Dell has announced the availability of its 13th generation servers with significant upgrades due to Intel’s release of its new Broadwell CPUs. The company, has, however, added some of its enhancements at the same time.

Lenovo announces broad range of enterprise servers

by Mark Cox • May 5, 2015

The new offerings include new four and eight socket X6 systems, Lenovo Flex System X6 Compute Nodes, and both Lenovo X6 and joint Lenovo-EMC solutions optimized for SAP HANA.

Cisco sees UCS Mini opening up Canadian market

by Robert Dutt • September 4, 2014

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

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.

HP announces its ProLiant Gen9 servers

by Mark Cox • August 28, 2014

Feeds and speeds of individual servers await later rollouts, but HP is promising three times the compute power of Gen8 servers, and a focus server strategy for the modern data centre.

Maintenance key to IBM-Lenovo server deal

by Larry Walsh (Channelnomics) • June 26, 2014

The deal for IBM to sell its x86 server unit to Lenovo continues to slog through reviews, as government is concerned about national security implications.