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
Data Centre, Servers, Storage
Why hyperconverged won’t slow down in 2019: Dell EMC
by Mark Cox •
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Data Centre, Storage, Virtualization
Pivot3 creates new U.S. sales head position to expand leadership team
by Mark Cox •
While undergoing the hiring process for a new head of sales that landed Rance Poehler, Pivot3 found they also liked the skillset of Dan Flood, so they made an additional hire, and created the position of VP of U.S. sales for him, as part of a more aggressive strategy to expand in the enterprise.
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Distribution, Podcasts, Sponsored Content
New Year’s Podcast Series: Ed Galasso of Tech Data Canada
by Robert Dutt •
Tech Data Canada boss Ed Galasso joins the ChannelBuzz.ca Podcast to discuss the distributor’s highlights of the year 2018 and offer his thoughts for what’s to come in 2019.
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Backup
Commvault, Cisco extend partnership with integration around Cisco HyperFlex HCI systems
by Mark Cox •
The new integration extends ScaleProtect with Cisco UCS to Cisco’s HyperFlex hyperconverged products, and validates Commvault’s IntelliSnap snapshot technology with them.
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Networking, Partnerships
Lenovo adds open source networking portfolio through new partnership with Cumulus Networks
by Mark Cox •
Lenovo is the last major infrastructure vendor to join the roster of Cumulus partners. They will offer three ThinkSystem RackSwitch models with support for Cumulus Linux out of the gate, with more coming in 2019.
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Artificial Intelligence, Data Centre, Storage
HCI vendor Maxta deepens analytics capabilities with new MxIQ analytics-insight platform
by Mark Cox •
Maxta provided analytics previously, but it was limited to data on an individual cluster, MxIQ broadens this to add metrics from additional clusters and additional data, to provide a greater degree of visibility and insight.
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Cloud, Storage
NetApp CEO Kurian lays out four principles for leading in a data-driven world
by Mark Cox •
While digital transformation has become a motherhood term in the tech industry, NetApp CEO George Kurian kicked off the opening keynote at NetApp Insight by saying NetApp is now emphasizing that successful digital transformation requires adherence to four core principles.
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Cloud, Storage
Major new Azure integration highlights NetApp cloud announcements
by Mark Cox •
NetApp is touting the new Azure NetApp Files as a huge extension of their Microsoft relationship, which gives them a level of integration with their Azure cloud that Microsoft has not done before with anyone. Other announcements include the General Availability of NetApp Cloud Insights, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, and new ONTAP support for NetApp HCI.
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Artificial Intelligence, Big Data
Splunk CEO Merritt: Splunk opportunities riding the crest of a technology explosion
by Mark Cox •
Doug Merritt, Splunk’s President and CEO, kicked off the Splunk .conf18 event in Orlando by emphasizing the congruence between the company’s greatest wave of innovation ever, and the time in the market when the pace of change and the ability to tap into the monstrous mess that is contemporary data are at their peak of importance.
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Data Centre, Storage
Hitachi Vantara adds agility to data centre portfolio with hyperconverged, converged portfolio upgrades
by Mark Cox •
The HCI part of the portfolio introduces the first NVMe offering, while new support on the CI side was announced that will support very large deployments, and a refresh of the Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Advisor’s management and orchestration software was announced.
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Data Centre
Hitachi Vantara expands cloud services with Smart Data Center enhancements
by Mark Cox •
The upgrades to Smart Data Center follow up a new solution for modern policing, Hitachi Digital Evidence Management.
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Cloud, Data Centre
Nutanix completes SAP HANA certification process by meeting criteria for HANA production deployments
by Mark Cox •
Nutanix follows up their certification on SAP HANA non-production environments in June with the expected – but still very important – announcement that they have now been certified for SAP HANA production environments as well.
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Cloud, Data Centre, Security
VMware rolls security into core with vSphere Platinum
by Robert Dutt •
VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger declares security broken, and says the company’s new approach is to reduce the threat surface by intelligently locking down the behaviour of the virtual and cloud infrastructure it manages.LAS VEGAS — Pat Gelsinger does not have a lot nice to say about the state of security. In his VMworld 2018 keynote…
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Data Centre, Networking, Servers, Storage
Dell EMC builds PowerEdge bridge to next-gen workloads with modular PowerEdge MX architecture
by Mark Cox •
Dell EMC will launch their new modular PowerEdge MX platform September 12, promising to remake data centre architecture with technology that will support both traditional and next-gen applications within a composable computing framework that pays much more attention to memory than earlier iterations of that technology.
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Networking
Dell EMC bringing new 100GbE 64-port fabric switch to market
by Mark Cox •
The Dell EMC Z9264F-ON is the new version of the company’s core and aggregation switch, replacing the Z9100, and has twice the number of ports of its predecessor.
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Mobility, Security
Check Point adds threat prevention to mobile security, and intros new high-end gateway to prevent today’s threats
by Mark Cox •
SandBlast Mobile 3.0 extends the parameters of smartphone protection by adding the ability to prevent threats as well as detect them, while the new 23900 security gateway adds a new very high end data centre appliance for Check Point customers who don’t need the scalability of a chassis.
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Channel Programs, Data Centre
Canada comes through for Dell EMC channel business
by Mark Cox •
Dell EMC Canadian channel chief Deanna Thomson discusses the Canadian channel, and why its performance in Q1 was even better than overall Dell EMC numbers.
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Data Centre, Storage
Western Digital looks to remake both its own image – and the data centre of the future
by Mark Cox •
Western Digital is looking to drive massive change on two fronts. They are emphasizing their strong enterprise data centres today, and that the company is about far more than low-cost JBODs and consumer drives. They are also emphasizing their ability to play a key role in driving the technology of he data centre of the future.
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Cloud, Operating Systems, Software
NetApp adapting storage and software business unit to Cloud First requirements
by Mark Cox •
All-flash led NetApp’s climb back from the brink to profitability, and all-flash remains one of NetApp’s strategic priorities this year. However, while Joel Reich’s business unit delivers most NetApp revenue, its development priorities have transitioned to the new Cloud First approach
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Mobility, Networking, Security
Aruba announces first SD-WAN branch solution
by Mark Cox •
Aruba extends their software-defined architecture to the branch, with the new Cloud Managed 7000 Series Branch Gateways, as well as new Aruba Central abilities to manage them.
