data centre

Reading the EMC tea leaves at Dell World

October 21, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

While everyone at Dell World this year wants to know all about the upcoming integration with EMC, there are significant limitations on what the company can say at this point. That being said, here’s an interpretation of what they are willing to put on the record.

Cohesity’s revolutionary converged secondary storage platform hits general availability

October 14, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

Led by the original co-founder of Nutanix, Cohesity aims to disrupt the market for secondary storage the same way Nutanix disrupted primary storage.

Dell snaps up EMC in $67B US mega-deal

October 13, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Dell and EMC execs say the combined company will be an IT powerhouse from the SMB to the largest enterprise.

Greg Myers, senior vice president of sales and marketing at Tech Data Canada.

SimpliVity signs on Tech Data Canada as exclusive distributor

October 7, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Hyper-converged vendor SimpliVity will seek to grow its market in Canada with an exclusive distribution pact with Tech Data Canada.

Future-ready capability highlights new Dell campus, enterprise networking solutions

September 24, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

Dell unveils its second 100 GbE S-Series switch for the data centre, as well as a new campus architecture which has 100 GbE capacity for the future.

Podcast: Avnet’s security, storage and networking business, and Auvik Networks

September 23, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Avnet’s Cheryl Neal and Auvik Networks’ Alex Hoff on this edition of the ChannelBuzz.ca Podcast.

Jay Snyder, senior vice president of global alliances at EMC

EMC, DiData team to tackle mid-enterprise cloud

September 16, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off

The Catalyst Alliance will see EMC and Dimension Data team up to make cloud offerings more available to midsize enterprises with quicker deployments.

PernixData announces version 3.0 of flagship product, plus new Architect software platform

September 15, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

The company is also announcing a new version of its FVP Freedom software, the free version of their FVP software which they say gives away for free the same thing that hybrid vendors sell on top of their arrays.

Nutanix aggressively claiming mantle of ‘only true hyperconverged player’

September 10, 2015 Mark Cox 1

At a customer event in Toronto Wednesday, Nutanix presented the audience with a full-throated positioning of themselves as well ahead of their competition, and also gave an update on their progress in Canada