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IBM announces Red Hat partnership, expands ones with Veritas and NetApp

March 20, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on IBM announces Red Hat partnership, expands ones with Veritas and NetApp
IBM’s new partnering announcements are focused on expanding opportunities for other vendors’ customers to use the IBM cloud.

Cloud

New high end Power Systems highlight IBM hybrid cloud announcements

September 20, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on New high end Power Systems highlight IBM hybrid cloud announcements
IBM also makes new z Systems announcements, and unveils several new and expanded partnerships at their Edge event.

Luc Villeneuve, country manager, Red Hat Canada
Channel Programs

Red Hat targets midmarket with Keating, Tech Data partnerships

May 5, 2016 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Red Hat targets midmarket with Keating, Tech Data partnerships
Red Hat Canada partners with Keating Technologies and Tech Data Canada to address the $500m to $1b market and more thoroughly cross-sell its technologies.

Luc Villeneuve, country manager, Red Hat Canada
Channel Programs

Red Hat Canada reports strong channel growth

April 12, 2016 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Red Hat Canada reports strong channel growth
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 CEO Jim Whitehurst
Channel Programs

Red Hat boss sets sights on $5B

April 6, 2016 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Red Hat boss sets sights on $5B
Red Hat wants to grow its business dramatically over next five years, including tripling revenues through channel partners.

Software

TmaxSoft targets Oracle databases with Red Hat partnership

February 16, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on TmaxSoft targets Oracle databases with Red Hat partnership
The company, based in Korea but with U.S. offices in Chicago, has made a major push in North America in the last year, looking to both strategic vendor and channel reseller partners to drive its Tibero databases into Oracle’s market.

Servers

Lenovo: We want to be the top OEM for hyperconverged

November 12, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Lenovo: We want to be the top OEM for hyperconverged
Lenovo sees strong momentum in its server business, with its core server business showing signs of beginning to scale growth, and its roster of hyperconverged partners offering significant potential in that space.

Ranga Rangachari, vice president and general manager for storage at Red Hat.
Storage

Red Hat readies storage for channel

April 13, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Red Hat readies storage for channel
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.

Distribution

Podcast: Red Hat Partner Conference and Avnet’s Global Solutions Center

April 9, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Podcast: Red Hat Partner Conference and Avnet’s Global Solutions Center
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
Cloud

Red Hat CEO rallies partners around OpenStack, OpenShift

April 8, 2015 Robert Dutt 1
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.