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Storage

Major new NetApp partnership energizes Lenovo DCG storage at Transform 2.0

September 13, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Major new NetApp partnership energizes Lenovo DCG storage at Transform 2.0
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
Partnerships

Pure Storage highlights Cisco momentum with new Oracle Data Warehouse solution, and AIRI integrations

July 24, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pure Storage highlights Cisco momentum with new Oracle Data Warehouse solution, and AIRI integrations
Pure Storage channel chief Michael Sotnick also highlighted strong company momentum in the Canadian market.

Hardware

Dell introduces industry-first 1U rack performance workstation with entry-level Dell Precision 3930

July 20, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell introduces industry-first 1U rack performance workstation with entry-level Dell Precision 3930
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.

Big Data

Hitachi Vantara announces hardware, software enhancements to Unified Compute Platform

June 6, 2018 Mark Cox 1
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.

Storage

Pure Storage outlines data-centric storage vision and strategy at Accelerate event

May 24, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pure Storage outlines data-centric storage vision and strategy at Accelerate event
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.

Artificial Intelligence

Pure Storage unveils AIRI Mini as ‘game changer’ to democratize AI in the enterprise

May 24, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pure Storage unveils AIRI Mini as ‘game changer’ to democratize AI in the enterprise
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.

Big Data

Pure Storage, NVIDIA introduce AIRI AI-ready infrastructure

March 27, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pure Storage, NVIDIA introduce AIRI AI-ready infrastructure
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.

Cloud

eG Innovations offers native monitoring for Citrix in cloud environment in Enterprise 6.3 release

January 8, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on eG Innovations offers native monitoring for Citrix in cloud environment in Enterprise 6.3 release
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.

Big Data

Dell EMC looks to mainstream machine and deep learning with upcoming bundles

November 21, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell EMC looks to mainstream machine and deep learning with upcoming bundles
Three new Dell EMC Ready bundles around machine learning and deep learning should both broaden the HPC market, and make it more channel-friendly.

Mobility

Dell expands VDI Complete Solutions with Horizon apps, new graphics accelerators

August 29, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell expands VDI Complete Solutions with Horizon apps, new graphics accelerators
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.