In addition to these new hyperconverged models produced with partners NVIDIA and Mellanox, Pure Storage announced FlashStack for AI, an AI-optimized version of their Cisco-focused converged offering.
IGEL unveiled its 2019 roadmap at its Disrupt event, and has high hopes that the new tech will live up to the name of their event.
Teradici, like IGEL, was originally a hardware company that transitioned into a software company as the market changed, and they are looking from big things from this, and other new partnerships as the company continues its focus on a multi-cloud strategy.
They include earlier integrations with Lakeside Software and PrinterLogic, which have been available as custom orders, but which are now part of the basic IGEL OS.
NetApp asked its partners to place bets this year on the cloud, on HCI and on all-flash, with the first two acknowledged as being a significant ask for some partners. Almost two quarters in, the company said that results so far have been good.
NVIDIA’s strong channel focus ensures that this joint offering with DDN will be completely channel-centric, although the number of partners certified on the NVIDIA DGX-1 and with DDN is fairly limited at this point.
This morning, at their Transform 2.0 event in New York City, Lenovo announced a series of new products, partnerships and solutions around the company’s ongoing Intelligent Transformation strategy. For the channel, the centrepiece was a multi-billion dollar global strategic partnership between the Lenovo Data Center Group (DCG) and NetApp. With ten new storage products, it…
Pure Storage channel chief Michael Sotnick also highlighted strong company momentum in the Canadian market.
Dell also upgrades their two tower entry level workstations, with one, the Dell Precision 3630, getting a completely new chassis to make its form factor smaller.
Just in time for SAP SAPPHIRE, several significant new SAP HANA software applications were announced, but that’s only a part of a fairly comprehensive Hitachi Vantara announcement.
The model that Pure Storage outlined as their path forward is not a net-new, as it is built on technology like last year’s FlashBlade//X and Gartner’s Shared Accelerated Storage category. It is, however, a differentiated strategy within the industry, that Pure believes will drive it to great heights.
AIRI Mini is a joint engineering initiative between Pure and NVIDIA that provides an AI-focused solution with much less compute capability than AIRI, announced in March. It thus has a much lower entry point, and the companies think it will lead to strong interactions between infrastructure teams and data scientists.
A jointly engineered ‘AI-in-a-Box,’ AIRI allows customers to cut simulation training time by 4x, in a much tinier footprint than it took before.
While eG Innovations has a broad portfolio of offerings, half of their revenues are related to Citrix, so the lion’s share of the enhancements in this release are Citrix-related as well.
Three new Dell EMC Ready bundles around machine learning and deep learning should both broaden the HPC market, and make it more channel-friendly.
The new Dell VDI announcements, like the previous day’s Dell EMC announcements at VMworld, all focus on the deepening relationship and more effective integration between Dell EMC and VMware since the merger.
Dell is stressing that its recent workstations announcement is far more than just the latest feeds and speeds, but is part of a strategy to give customers the massive capabilities, immersive computing, and virtual reality of an AI-driven future that has already started.
In addition to the performance boost from the new Intel processors, Cisco is also touting its new Cisco Workload Optimization Manager software, which comes through an OEM deal with Turbonomic.
The offering with Citrix provides the same capabilities of the latest version of a VMRail VMware solution announced at last year’s Dell EMC World, and gives Dell partners an offering for their Citrix focused customers.
Dell EMC has announced upgrades to its hyper-converged VxRail and VxRack offerings, with hardware improvement stemming both from Intel Broadwell processors and optimization with PowerEdge servers. Many more configurations will be available, including a 3 node VxRail offering that drops the entry price by a quarter.
