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Greg Peterson, vice president of Avnet’s HPE solutions business in the Americas

Avnet preps services around HPE Synergy

June 14, 2016 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Avnet Technology Solutions announces resources, training and support around HPE’s soon-to-debut Synergy composable infrastructure technology.

Dave Mason, vice president of advanced solutions at Ingram Micro Canada

Ingram Micro Canada adds Power to IBM lineup

June 13, 2016 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Ingram Micro Canada will help Big Blue drive its Power architecture into the midmarket through the channel via an expanded partnership.

Rocco Seyboth, vice president of marketing at BitTitan

BitTitan seeking Canadian expansion after landing first external funding

June 13, 2016 Robert Dutt Comments Off

BitTitan’s 15 million (U.S.) in series A financing arrives just as the vendor feels cloud expansion is about to explode in Canada and around the world.

HPE creates new product category with two converged Internet of Things systems

June 8, 2016 Mark Cox 1

In what is likely the most exciting of the announcements so far at HPE Discover, HPE announces two converged EdgeLine devices, as well as the ability to use their Vertica Big Data solution and functionality from their Aruba secure wi-fi system in IoT devices. New IoT partnerships and IoT Innovation Labs were also announced.

HPE extends software-defined storage strategy

June 7, 2016 Mark Cox 1

The company has announced more details about its composable data fabric strategy, made possible by extending its StoreVirtual technology across all its form factors, to serve as the basis of its strategy for making software-defined ubiquitous in the date centre.

Expanded drive, container support highlight HPE 3PAR all-flash upgrades

June 7, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

All-flash has been a many-faceted boon to the channel, and HPE’s new announcements will add some new opportunities for the company’s partners

Auvik adds NetFlow analysis

June 7, 2016 Robert Dutt 1

Networking RMM vendor partners with Kentik to bring AuvikFlow NetFlow analysis to help MSPs answer common customer questions their networks.

Dell announces breakthrough in liquid cooling technology

June 2, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

Dell’s new Triton technology, which came out of a special project its ESI [Extreme Scale Infrastructure] group did for eBay, is still far from being a commercially available product. Nevertheless, it represents an important advance in liquid cooling.

Dell’s Futuresville 2.0 office looks into crystal ball

June 2, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

Futuresville 2 – Dell’s Chief Technology Office for Enterprise – discussed their work in identifying key trends and co-ordinating responses within Dell, and talked about some of those trends they deem vitally important going forward.