RSA believes being part of Dell will accelerate their initiative to move lower in the enterprise and into the mid-market, and will also facilitate desirable acquisitions.
Dell EMC has made a restructuring in Canada into Enterprise and Commercial Sections, which are very close to pre-combination EMC and Dell respectively. They are crediting this as a key reason for strong performance over the last nine weeks.
Synnex Canada president Mitchell Martin believes his company can become a player in the enterprise, but it has to sign a few major holdout vendors first.
Dell EMC has announced a new data protection bundle which at this point is basically an unintegrated sales bundle with multiple consoles. They are already working on plans to change that however, and bring more technically integrated solutions cutting across multiple brands to market.
Tech Data Canada President Rick Reid talks about what they have been doing with Dell and where they will be going in the future as the new Dell EMC overhauls its distribution strategy.
Dell EMC World this year has seen the integration of support from legacy Dell products like PowerEdge servers for EMC solutions. This particular integration goes the other way, with support from legacy EMC storage management and data protection products being announced for the mid-range SC line.
What was formerly Project Nitro will hit the streets in 2017, with a single 4U Isilon Scale-Out system reaching a maximum of 924TB of capacity, 250,000 IOPS and up to 15GB/s of aggregate bandwidth in a 4-node cluster.
Dell EMC has announced upgrades to its hyper-converged VxRail and VxRack offerings, with hardware improvement stemming both from Intel Broadwell processors and optimization with PowerEdge servers. Many more configurations will be available, including a 3 node VxRail offering that drops the entry price by a quarter.
At this stage, the new Dell EMC program is still in the formative stages, but the company indicated the general principles. Details will be coming in December, with the launch to take place in February.
Pure has announced an expansion of its relationship with Cisco, and its new (very high) Net Promoter Score, and sees a strong outlook both in Canada and its business generally.
Dell EMC releases ScaleIO software from EMC integrated with PowerEdge servers, and thinks it will be a strong channel offering.
Leaders for the former Dell Canada and EMC Canada come together to bring their combined message to the channel.
Dell promises massive innovation and change in technology, while pledging minimal disruptive changes to the old Dell and EMC product lines.
