Intel

Mobility

Dell brings Vostro SMB notebooks back to North America

April 21, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell brings Vostro SMB notebooks back to North America
Dell reverses an earlier decision to make the Latitude its SMB notebook product in North America, and responds to customer demand with new 14 and 15 inch models.

Computers

HP announces next-gen workstation Ultrabooks

January 5, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on HP announces next-gen workstation Ultrabooks
The Zbook 15u checks in at 6.3 lbs compared to 4.23 for the HP Zbook 14, while both have 5th-generation Intel Core processors, up to 16 GB of memory and up to 1.25 TB of storage.

Lisa Matherly, vice president of worldwide partner programs, marketing, and operations at Intel Security
Channel Programs

Intel Security renames, revamps McAfee Partner Program

October 27, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Intel Security renames, revamps McAfee Partner Program
McAfee rebrands partner program under the Intel Security name, announces new names for partner tiers and evolving certification and training requirements.

Gavin Struthers, senior vice president of global channel and indirect go-to-market operations at Intel Security.
Security

McAfee channel chief points partners towards services

October 27, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off on McAfee channel chief points partners towards services
McAfee’s Gavin Struthers urges partners to double down on building out their own services, points to growing managed security services opportunities.

Servers

HP adds new cartridges to Moonshot portfolio

October 23, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on HP adds new cartridges to Moonshot portfolio
New Moonshot apps for application delivery, video transcoding, and a Web infrastructure-in-a-box solution for Web hosters, allow HP to target more custom markets with Moonshot.

Dale Degen, senior worldwide marketing manager for HP Storage
Storage

HP, Intel seed market for software-defined storage

October 21, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off on HP, Intel seed market for software-defined storage
HP is working with Intel to make 1 TB of StoreVirtual VSA storage available to all purchases of servers with Intel’s latest Xeon processors.

HP's Jim Zafarana shows off the company's new workstation lineup
Computers

HP revamps workstation lineup

September 8, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off on HP revamps workstation lineup
The big and beefy get bigger and beefier as HP updates its workstations to include the latest Haswell processors, greater RAM and storage density.

Hardware

Lenovo unveils three next-gen enterprise servers

September 8, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Lenovo unveils three next-gen enterprise servers
Lenovo is emphasizing these new enterprise-ready server products have overcome limitations of Lenovo servers in the enterprise in the past.

Manal Guirguis, director of endpoint solutions at Tech Data Canada.
Distribution

Tech Data Canada adds McAfee SaaS

September 5, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Tech Data Canada adds McAfee SaaS
Distributor Tech Data Canada expands its growing software-as-a-service lineup, adding security wares from McAfee to its SaaS linecard.

Data Centre

HP announces its ProLiant Gen9 servers

August 28, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on HP announces its ProLiant Gen9 servers
Feeds and speeds of individual servers await later rollouts, but HP is promising three times the compute power of Gen8 servers, and a focus server strategy for the modern data centre.