HPE

Greg Peterson, vice president of Avnet’s HPE solutions business in the Americas
Distribution

Inside Avnet’s HPE business [Video]

June 23, 2016 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Inside Avnet’s HPE business [Video]
Greg Peterson and Ty Tobin of Avnet Technology Solutions discuss the distributor’s long-standing business with Hewlett Packard Enterprise, where they see opportunities with HPE for the channel, and what they’re doing to help solution providers realize those opportunities.

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

Tech Data Canada adds Aruba

June 21, 2016 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Tech Data Canada adds Aruba
Tech Data Canada adds HPE’s Aruba wireless networking to its Advanced Infrastructure Solutions linecard, sees growing opportunities for networks built for mobile apps.

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Greg Peterson, vice president of Avnet’s HPE solutions business in the Americas
Data Centre

Avnet preps services around HPE Synergy

June 14, 2016 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Avnet preps services around HPE Synergy
Avnet Technology Solutions announces resources, training and support around HPE’s soon-to-debut Synergy composable infrastructure technology.

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Cloud

New Helion Cloud Suite highlights cloud announcements at HPE Discover

June 9, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on New Helion Cloud Suite highlights cloud announcements at HPE Discover
HPE’s cloud announcements at its Discover event had a decidedly multi-cloud texture, as the company announced four new and refreshed cloud solutions.

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Partnerships

Next-gen VDI vendor Workspot sees new HPE partnership as match made in heaven

June 9, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Next-gen VDI vendor Workspot sees new HPE partnership as match made in heaven
Workspot makes a native cloud-based VDI solution which is simple to install and use. Hyper-converged vendors are one of their routes to market, and this new agreement makes available a reference configuration for Workspot VDI on the HPE HyperConverged 380.

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Internet of Things

HPE creates new product category with two converged Internet of Things systems

June 8, 2016 Mark Cox 1
In what is likely the most exciting of the announcements so far at HPE Discover, HPE announces two converged EdgeLine devices, as well as the ability to use their Vertica Big Data solution and functionality from their Aruba secure wi-fi system in IoT devices. New IoT partnerships and IoT Innovation Labs were also announced.

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Data Centre

HPE, Docker look to future with major strategic alliance

June 8, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE, Docker look to future with major strategic alliance
The two companies announced a broad range of Docker ready HP servers, which will be available in Q4, and a broad range of Docker integrations and other solutions for HPE, which are available now.

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Data Centre

HPE extends software-defined storage strategy

June 7, 2016 Mark Cox 1
The company has announced more details about its composable data fabric strategy, made possible by extending its StoreVirtual technology across all its form factors, to serve as the basis of its strategy for making software-defined ubiquitous in the date centre.

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Storage

Expanded drive, container support highlight HPE 3PAR all-flash upgrades

June 7, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Expanded drive, container support highlight HPE 3PAR all-flash upgrades
All-flash has been a many-faceted boon to the channel, and HPE’s new announcements will add some new opportunities for the company’s partners

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Managed Services

HPE releases hybrid compute managed service for small business/ROBO market

April 13, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE releases hybrid compute managed service for small business/ROBO market
The HPE ProLiant Easy Connect Managed Hybrid solution is a subscription based offering for small businesses and ROBO environments. But while American partners get access to it in a couple weeks, Canadian ones will have to wait a while – like until Q4.

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Data Centre

HPE stresses simplicity with new hyper-converged system for the midmarket

March 15, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE stresses simplicity with new hyper-converged system for the midmarket
The new appliance, built on the ProLiant DL 380, brings a new interface to HPE hyper-converged products, which the company says is extremely user-friendly and easy to use.

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Security

Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise introduce new bundle for enterprise and midmarket

March 3, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise introduce new bundle for enterprise and midmarket
The bundle enhances interoperability between Fortinet’s FortiGate Network Security Platform and the HPE Security Logger products, and will initially be piloted exclusively through Arrow to a limited number of partners, before being opened up later this year.

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Small Business

HPE enhances entry level MSA 1040 and StoreEasy storage

February 9, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE enhances entry level MSA 1040 and StoreEasy storage
The addition of SSD support to the HPE MSA 1040 also enables software enhancements which have been available on the flagship MSA 2040, and removes much of the feature gap between the two models.

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Big Data

IT security making poor use of analytics, Big Data: HPE

January 21, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on IT security making poor use of analytics, Big Data: HPE
Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s third annual State of Security Operations Report finds that while security organizations are investing in analytics and Big Data, many are making preventable errors that give them a poor return on their investment.

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Antonio Neri, executive vice president of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Big Data

HPE debuts first IoT devices

December 2, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off on HPE debuts first IoT devices
HPE’s first IoT offerings include Edgeline devices that bring compute to the network edge, and an Aruba offering for managing location-based services.

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Bill Hilf, general manager, cloud business unit, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise
Cloud

Microsoft, HPE partner on cloud integration

December 1, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Microsoft, HPE partner on cloud integration
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and Microsoft announce a cloud deal that will see the two “prefer” each other’s hybrid cloud offerings and more.

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Big Data

HPE beefs up IoT strategy with new business unit, Intel partnership

November 20, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE beefs up IoT strategy with new business unit, Intel partnership
The Intel partnership will generate both three global IoT solutions labs for customers, with the North American one being in Houston, as well as a roadmap of jointly HPE-Intel developed IoT solutions.

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Storage

HPE announces flurry of 3PAR announcements

November 16, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE announces flurry of 3PAR announcements
Net-new offerings include 3PAR Flash Acceleration for Oracle and the 3PAR StoreServ 8200 Converged File and Block Starter Kit.

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Channel Communities

Hewlett Packard Enterprise stresses SMB, channel commitment with new releases

November 12, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Hewlett Packard Enterprise stresses SMB, channel commitment with new releases
For partners, the most interesting thing here may be the Small Business Marketplace e-commerce platform, an explicitly channel-focused online site, rather than a direct-to-customer site that competes with partners. It’s in pilot now in the U.S., but when it will be in Canada is not yet clear.

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