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Data Centre

New Nutanix Canada country manager Robert Yelenich promises aggressive expansion

April 12, 2016 Mark Cox 1
A month ago, Robert Yelenich moved from country manager of Commvault in Canada over to Nutanix, replacing Anton Granic, who had been promoted. Yelenich recently sat down with ChannelBuzz to discuss Nutanix’s Canadian plans for 2016.

Data Centre

Dell strengthens EMC-VMware presence in its hyper-converged portfolio

April 5, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell strengthens EMC-VMware presence in its hyper-converged portfolio
Beefing up the offerings owned by organizations soon likely to be owned by Dell comes as no surprise, but the vendor also strongly restated its support for its Nutanix-based XC line, while beefing it up as well, and said it’s not going anywhere.

Servers

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

April 4, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell announces both Intel-related and internal improvements to their PowerEdge servers
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.

Channel Programs

Dell rolls out new partner incents announced at Dell World

March 2, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell rolls out new partner incents announced at Dell World
Some new incent programs have gone live, and other partner offerings announced at Dell World last October are now available.

Security

New Dell SonicWALL Threat Protection Service to be major channel play

March 1, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on New Dell SonicWALL Threat Protection Service to be major channel play
The new service combines one sandbox Dell has used internally, and being productized for the first time, with two licensed third party sandboxes, on the principle that modern threats that try and evade sandboxes won’t be able to evade three different ones at the same time.

Digital Signage

Dell strengthens IoT push with its first Embedded PCs [Updated]

February 29, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell strengthens IoT push with its first Embedded PCs [Updated]
Dell believes its configure-to-order embedded PCs will do well in a market dominated by smaller manufacturers doing custom orders, and whose machines lack the software, manageability and support options Dell can offer.

Managed Services

Softchoice becomes first Dell partner to offer a custom managed service for Dell servers

January 29, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Softchoice becomes first Dell partner to offer a custom managed service for Dell servers
Softchoice adds Dell to their Keystone Managed Services portfolio, to provide a complementary wrap to Dell’s own ProSupport services.

Networking

Dell opens up networking base software with OS10

January 21, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell opens up networking base software with OS10
The new Dell networking OS is initially aimed only at large data centres, with the current campus OS6 and data centre OS9 continuing, but longer term, OS 10 will become the core system for all of Dell networking.

Virtualization

Dell reaches into midmarket with new Dell Appliance for Wyse — Citrix

January 13, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell reaches into midmarket with new Dell Appliance for Wyse — Citrix
An appliance originally designed to bring Citrix into the low end of the market has had its scalability increased more than tenfold, now supporting up to 5000 users. Dell also announced its new ThinOS software, which now supports Skype for Business, and is backwards compatible into the existing install base.