Enterprise

Hardware

Designing Dell: Dell’s Industrial Design team talks turkey with media

May 29, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Designing Dell: Dell’s Industrial Design team talks turkey with media
Dell’s hardware designers explain their original mandate, to turn Dell from a follower to a leader in product innovation, and discuss their design philosophy and principles that underlay the large degree of success they have in this area now compared to a decade ago.

Cloud

Virtustream acquired by EMC, to become separate EMC Federation business

May 26, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Virtustream acquired by EMC, to become separate EMC Federation business
Virtustream will form the basis of EMC’s managed cloud services business, and will be sold both direct and through service provider and integrator partners.

Channel Programs

EMC VSPEX portfolio being expanded into the enterprise

May 5, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on EMC VSPEX portfolio being expanded into the enterprise
The channel-exclusive VSPEX solutions, which have been targeted at mid-market and SMB customers, are being expanded to the enterprise with the addition of the EMC VMAX 100K enterprise data services platform.

Data Centre

New VCE VxRack designed to bring appliance simplicity to datacentre

May 4, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on New VCE VxRack designed to bring appliance simplicity to datacentre
EMC sees this as a new category of product, which provides the same benefits as hyperconverged appliances provide, but to the datacentre, where the appliances do not scale well.

Channel Programs

SanDisk creates new Enterprise partner program for Fusion-io focused channel

April 13, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on SanDisk creates new Enterprise partner program for Fusion-io focused channel
SanDisk has created a second program for its enterprise-focused products, which mainly came from Fusion-io, because their target markets, sales motions, and skill requirements are different from the SMB-focused Premier program.

Storage

Rubrik looks to redefine backup with converged scale-out platform with Apple-like experience

March 24, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Rubrik looks to redefine backup with converged scale-out platform with Apple-like experience
Rubrik sees itself as a threat to every backup vendor, with an offering that will focus on the mid-market at first, and will be sold 100 per cent through the channel.

Storage

PROMISE Technology moves into scale-out space with VSky A-Series

March 11, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on PROMISE Technology moves into scale-out space with VSky A-Series
These new scale-out offerings follow up last year’s file sync and sharing solution, as PROMISE moves beyond its traditional product lines with different types of products.

Printing and Imaging

HP unveils reinvented LaserJets

March 10, 2015 Mark Cox 1
HP says its next-gen LaserJets are the most significant innovation in laser engineering since HP introduced its first LaserJet in 1984.

Distribution

Ingram Micro to distribute Calgary’s unique SMART Technologies’ digital capture board

February 6, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Ingram Micro to distribute Calgary’s unique SMART Technologies’ digital capture board
SMART kapp is a unique electronic replacement for dry erase boards and flipcharts which will appeal to A/V resellers, but could be sold by anyone who sells into an office environment.

Security

Cisco’s Security Manifesto for the real world

January 22, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cisco’s Security Manifesto for the real world
Cisco believes security teams need to rethink strategy, to ensure that their principles assist users in resisting attacks – since the reverse is all too common now.