Futuresville 2 – Dell’s Chief Technology Office for Enterprise – discussed their work in identifying key trends and co-ordinating responses within Dell, and talked about some of those trends they deem vitally important going forward.
Dell also announced an expansion of their open source networking initiatives, as well as two new in-rack systems for the data centre.
Over the last two years, Red Hat Canada has transformed from a primarily-direct organization to one where the channel increasingly leads the way.
Red Hat wants to grow its business dramatically over next five years, including tripling revenues through channel partners.
The Hitachi Hyper Scale-Out Platform, a new, next-generation technology, leverages technology acquired with Pentaho last year to provide an appliance that is aimed at Big Data, Data Lake and Internet of Things use cases now, and at broader use cases once an all-flash version is available later this year.
Syncsort says the results from a recent survey dovetail with what they are seeing from their own customers — that customers are increasingly moving to Hadoop, and that while much of this to date has been for operational use cases, they expect to see more transformative uses that drive new business opportunities.
EMC’s announcements indicate that EMC’s open source strategy is becoming much more critical, something the company says is good news for their channel partners.
Red Hat has built out its storage portfolio over the last year, and now the company’s storage chief says it’s time to take the technology to the channel.
Red Hat Canada country leader Luc Villeneuve and John Beimfohr of Avnet’s main global integration hub join us for this edition of the ChanneBuza.ca Podcast.
Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst tells troops there’s a massive shortage of skills to deliver OpenStack cloud solutions and the company’s OpenShift PaaS offering.
“Don’t miss this wave,” Mark Enzweiler tells partners as Red Hat prepares to invest in helping partners sell open source as innovation, not commoditization.
The long-time cloud backup solution’s new features include Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service enablement, open infrastructure support for FreeBSD on ZFS and CentOS, and integration with Linear Tape File System for archiving.
Cisco has followed up momentum from the acquisition of Sourcefire, adding new capabilities and services and greatly strengthening Cisco Canada’s security team.
Backup software vendor Asigra builds an open-source stack that it says can cut MSP’s storage costs on backup-as-a-service in half
HP Canada introduces new partner programs for cloud builders, and those who seek to resell HP’s public and managed cloud offerings.
HP Helion brand will include two OpenStack distributions, its CloudSystem converged infrastructure offering, a development platform and professional services.
Open source giant Red Hat has found its new North American channel sales leader in former Cisco and VCE channel exec D. Martin.
HP introduces its first cloud-managed WiFi offering, pitching SMB on ease of management and simplicity.
The maturing open source software vendor would benefit from a veteran channel chief to replace Roger Egan, a top Red Hat Canada partner says.
Solution providers looking to place bets in cloud efforts should consider the nature of the community over the nature of its technology, Jim Whitehust says.
