EMC

Data Centre

What Dell going public again means – HINT – very little

July 2, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on What Dell going public again means – HINT – very little
The announcement of a stock swap that will return Dell Technologies to public trading appears to conflict with everything Michael Dell has said for years about the benefits of being private versus being public. That may not be the case, however.

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Software

Catalogic Software reaches out to Pure Storage partners

June 19, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Catalogic Software reaches out to Pure Storage partners
Catalogic, which makes ‘in place’ copy data management software, had strong results at last week’s Pure Accelerate event.

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Storage

Nexsan expands Unity portfolio with archiving box, desktop client

February 22, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nexsan expands Unity portfolio with archiving box, desktop client
Nexsan’s new Unity Active Archive is expected to have a much larger market than Nexsan’s Assureon archiving product, because of its ease of use and deployment, broader use cases, and attractive pricing.

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Big Data

Canadian companies score poorly in Dell Technologies digital maturity study

October 17, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Canadian companies score poorly in Dell Technologies digital maturity study
A relative lack of competition compared to other geos is cited as a key reason why Canada is a laggard in the embrace of digital transformation.

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Frank Vitagliano, vice president of global channel strategy at Dell
Channel Programs

Dell sets course for integrated partner program

September 14, 2016 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Dell sets course for integrated partner program
Global and Canadian channel executives from Dell share the company’s plans for integrating the EMC partner program, offer guidance to partners.

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Computers

Dell Technologies pledges to lead next industrial revolution as new company gets underway

September 7, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell Technologies pledges to lead next industrial revolution as new company gets underway
Dell promises massive innovation and change in technology, while pledging minimal disruptive changes to the old Dell and EMC product lines.

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Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell
Data Centre

Independent but accelerated: Gelsinger, Dell discuss post-merger place for VMware

August 30, 2016 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Independent but accelerated: Gelsinger, Dell discuss post-merger place for VMware
Michael Dell and Pat Gelsinger weigh in on the benefits of VMware as part of the post-merger Dell family, stress ecossytem scale and downplay conflicts.

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Cloud

RSA introduces comprehensive SecurID identity access options with new SecurID Suite

August 5, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on RSA introduces comprehensive SecurID identity access options with new SecurID Suite
The Suite complements SecurID’s traditional two-factor authentication with identity governance and identity lifecycle management, to create a broad solution the company says defies easy classification.

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Data Centre

Dell’s Futuresville 2.0 office looks into crystal ball

June 2, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell’s Futuresville 2.0 office looks into crystal ball
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.

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Channel Programs

EMC sees multiple pluses for Canada market in Dell deal

May 4, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on EMC sees multiple pluses for Canada market in Dell deal
EMC Canada channel chief Michael Kerr gives a specifically Canadian take on the pending merger with Dell, as well as initial partner reaction to some of the new product announcements from EMC World.

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Channel Programs

Quebec-based ESI Information technologies is EMC Canada Partner of the Year

May 4, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Quebec-based ESI Information technologies is EMC Canada Partner of the Year
Canadian channel chief Michael Kerr acknowledged that getting partners to commit to EMC as the partners are transitioning their businesses to add cloud capabilities and cutting-edge technologies to their practice is often a challenge. It’s also one factor in recognition as a top EMC partner.

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Cloud

EMC LEAP looks to revolutionize ECM, take Documentum downmarket

May 4, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on EMC LEAP looks to revolutionize ECM, take Documentum downmarket
Project Horizon officially comes to market as EMC LEAP, next-gen cloud-native content apps sold on a SaaS model. While available free through a Loyalty Program to existing Documentum customers, the intent here is to greatly expand the customer base downmarket, with the aid of an expanded channel.

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Channel Programs

Dell and EMC look to pull off stunningly swift channel integration

May 3, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell and EMC look to pull off stunningly swift channel integration
The imminent close of the Dell-EMC deal brings with it new opportunities and change for the two companies’ channels. EMC channel chief Gregg Ambulos outlines the new company’s channel plans.

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Cloud

New Neutrino Nodes give VCE VxRack System 1000 Cloud Native capacity

May 3, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on New Neutrino Nodes give VCE VxRack System 1000 Cloud Native capacity
The new nodes equip VxRack to support OpenStack, and by next year, will support Hadoop and the VMware Photon Platform as well. They also have the effect of being able to turn Pivotal Cloud Foundry into an end-to-end solution for developers.

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Cloud

EMC refines enterprise cloud strategy with Virtustream Storage Cloud

May 3, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on EMC refines enterprise cloud strategy with Virtustream Storage Cloud
The new Web-scale object storage platform will extend on-prem EMC storage and backup applications into the cloud, and continue the trend of requiring the assistance of more channel partners than had been the case when Virtustream was acquired.

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Computers

Dell, EMC provide update on integration process

May 2, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell, EMC provide update on integration process
Many details still have not yet been determined, or cannot be made public, but at EMC World, Dell and EMC indicated some additional information about what the massive new organization would look like, and be called, once the merger is complete.

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Storage

EMC says new Unity all-flash arrays will do big volume in Dell distribution channel

May 2, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on EMC says new Unity all-flash arrays will do big volume in Dell distribution channel
Unity is aimed at the mid-market all-flash segment of the market, under XtremIO, and EMC believes that unlike the VNXe family, this will be a truly successful volume product.

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Software

Syncplicity to simplify content migration to its Sync and Share platform with new tool

April 28, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Syncplicity to simplify content migration to its Sync and Share platform with new tool
Business has been booming at enterprise Sync and Share vendor Syncplicity since they were spun out of EMC last year. Now they are unveiling a new content migration tool to simplify and automate migrations to their platform, and which the customer can also license to maintain permanent birectional access.

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Cloud

Dell cloud strategy to be enhanced significantly when EMC comes aboard

April 13, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell cloud strategy to be enhanced significantly when EMC comes aboard
Dell sees the imminent acquisition of EMC as significantly driving its cloud strategy, building on an advantage the company already claims as an early mover in the hybrid cloud, and bringing strong benefits to partners with a stake in the hybrid cloud.

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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.

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