HPE

Cloud

HPE, Atlantis kick off new hyper-converged infrastructure Citrix Ready program

January 9, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE, Atlantis kick off new hyper-converged infrastructure Citrix Ready program
Citrix has announced the Citrix Ready HCI Workspace Appliance Program, with Atlantis and HPE collaborating with Citrix on the first offering in it, the HPE Intelligent Edge Workspace. It is a turnkey virtual workspace appliance with mid-market simplicity and pricing.

Channel Programs

Veeam to deepen enterprise push with enterprise sales force to work with partners

December 2, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Veeam to deepen enterprise push with enterprise sales force to work with partners
Veeam has also introduced new bundles with HPE and with Cisco, which are now available through Ingram Micro.

Brad Parks, director of go-to-market strategy and enablement for HPE Storage
Cloud

HPE offers price-per-gig storage with Flash Now initiative

November 30, 2016 Robert Dutt Comments Off on HPE offers price-per-gig storage with Flash Now initiative
The program, from the HPE 3Par storage group, is targeted at keeping storage that may otherwise go to public cloud in the data centre.

avier Poisson, vice president of worldwide indirect digital services at HPE
Cloud

HPE expands Cloud28+ community worldwide

November 29, 2016 Robert Dutt Comments Off on HPE expands Cloud28+ community worldwide
The Cloud28+ community aims to make member cloud apps and services more readily available, while eschewing the transactional focus of cloud marketplaces.

HPE Canada managing director Charlie Atkinson
Podcasts

HPE at one year old [Podcast]

November 18, 2016 Robert Dutt Comments Off on HPE at one year old [Podcast]
HPE Canada managing director Charlie Atkinson and channel chief Jas Sahota discuss the company’s first year and set the stage for the upcoming Discover.

Managed Services

Tripling supported number of Easy Connect users highlights HPE SMB portfolio enhancements

November 17, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Tripling supported number of Easy Connect users highlights HPE SMB portfolio enhancements
HPE has also enhanced its SMB focused StoreEasy NAS family, and its HPE Flex Solutions for SQL Server.

Mitchell Martin, president of Synnex Canada.
Distribution

Synnex Canada targets enterprise growth

November 7, 2016 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Synnex Canada targets enterprise growth
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.

Channel Programs

Addition of competencies to HPE Partner Ready program highlight GPC announcements

September 12, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Addition of competencies to HPE Partner Ready program highlight GPC announcements
Other important changes include the integration of programs for other groups which used to be outside the old umbrella program and the integration of the Aruba PartnerEdge and HPE Networking channel programs into the new Partner Ready for Networking program.

Small Business

HPE unveils new StoreVirtual, MSA entry level storage arrays

August 15, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE unveils new StoreVirtual, MSA entry level storage arrays
HPE’s strategy with its new offerings is to offer strong featured hybrid-flash and software-defined offerings to the entry level at a sub-$10k price where they haven’t played before.

Cloud

ZeroStack to make its private cloud software available on Dell, HPE hardware

August 15, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on ZeroStack to make its private cloud software available on Dell, HPE hardware
ZeroStack has sold its software has to date on SuperMicro white box hardware, but requests from both partners and customers have led ZeroStack to broaden it out to Dell and HPE, with select other vendors likely on the way.