Servers

Channel Programs

New Dell partner benefits kick in with new fiscal year

February 27, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on New Dell partner benefits kick in with new fiscal year
Compared to last year, the changes to Dell’s partner program as the company begins a new fiscal year are much more modest, although the extension of rebates for new business to Registered partners will cause much cheer in that quarter.

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Computers

Lenovo nearing full integration of growing server business

February 4, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Lenovo nearing full integration of growing server business
In a review of Lenovo’s North American quarter from a channel perspective, Chris Frey also talked channel growth, tablets and PCs, and why we are still waiting on the new North American mobility strategy.

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Software

New Maxta reference architectures let partners offer custom turnkey solutions

January 21, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on New Maxta reference architectures let partners offer custom turnkey solutions
Maxta has also enhanced its partner program to recognize the new offerings’ ability to better build a practice around Maxta

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Computers

‘One Lenovo’ philosophy to guide both smartphone, server integrations

November 11, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on ‘One Lenovo’ philosophy to guide both smartphone, server integrations
Lenovo’s view is that the telcos are the preferred route to market for Motorola, but Lenovo also wants to go to market with alternative routes as well, to get more devices to more people.

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Virtualization

ViewSonic, Userful roll out first joint VDI product for low-cost markets

November 10, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on ViewSonic, Userful roll out first joint VDI product for low-cost markets
ViewSonic and Calgary-based Userful announced last month that they would bundle Userful’s software and ViewSonic’s hardware into a VDI bundle, and now the first solution from this partnership has been announced.

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Distribution

Disties hail resurgent PC market

October 22, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Disties hail resurgent PC market
Distributors Tech Data Canada, Ingram Micro Canada, and D&H Canada reflect on what has been a very strong year in the PC market in this country.

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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.

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Distribution

Avnet now authorized as Lenovo distributor for x86 servers

October 20, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Avnet now authorized as Lenovo distributor for x86 servers
The agreement, which went into effect October 1, covers only the server products acquired from IBM, but Avnet is assessing whether to carry the rest of the Lenovo server portfolio as well.

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Channel Programs

Lenovo to quickly integrate IBM server business in one coverage model

September 29, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Lenovo to quickly integrate IBM server business in one coverage model
While both Lenovo and IBM used some different distributors, under Lenovo all distributors formerly used by both companies will remain, and each distributor will be able to sell any server Lenovo sells. All partners will also be able to sell all Lenovo servers.

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Data Centre

Dimension Data rolls out globally standardized managed services for data centres

September 16, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dimension Data rolls out globally standardized managed services for data centres
The solution provider looks to capitalize on a trend where 70 per cent of private cloud adopters will utilize third parties to manage their environments.

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Hardware

Dell announces 13th generation PowerEdge servers

September 8, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell announces 13th generation PowerEdge servers
Dell is emphasizing that the design and software enhancements in its 13th generation of PowerEdge servers significantly boost application performance.

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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.

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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.

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Doug Oathout, Vice President of Global Marketing, SMB & Alliances at HP.
Servers

HP, Microsoft joint initiative to capture Windows Server 2003 transition

July 14, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on HP, Microsoft joint initiative to capture Windows Server 2003 transition
With the Windows XP support deadline in the rear-view mirror, HP and Microsoft are turning their attention to the end of support for Windows Server 2003.

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IBM System X Servers
Data Centre

IBM-Lenovo server deal hits security snag

June 5, 2014 Larry Walsh (Channelnomics) Comments Off on IBM-Lenovo server deal hits security snag
IBM and Lenovo requests extension to give U.S. national security regulators more time to review the proposed sale of the IBM server unit to Lenovo.

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Lenovo North American channel chief Chris Frey
Channel Programs

Lenovo simplifies incentives with upfront rebates

May 14, 2014 Larry Walsh (Channelnomics) Comments Off on Lenovo simplifies incentives with upfront rebates
Lenovo continues to woo the channel community by providing resellers with upfront rebates, simplified purchasing and sales reporting and expedited payments.

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Dell NetVault 10
Security

Dell enhances data protection portfolio with NetVault 10, dedupe appliance

May 13, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell enhances data protection portfolio with NetVault 10, dedupe appliance
Dell has beefed up its data protection portfolio with the release of version 10 of its NetVault software, together with a new deduplication appliance.

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Susan Bailey, vice president of sales and services for the Americas at Stratus Technologies
Data Centre

Stratus signs first distie deal with Arrow

April 22, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Stratus signs first distie deal with Arrow
Stratus Technologies’ partnership with Arrow to bring fault-tolerant software to x86 servers.

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server sales are up, but revenues are not following
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Server shipments up, revenues down in 2013

March 3, 2014 Larry Walsh (Channelnomics) Comments Off on Server shipments up, revenues down in 2013
Demand for servers is strong, but value is evaporating for the basic building blocks of data centers.

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HPC servers
Featured Post

IDC Finds Server Bright Spot in Global HPC Sales

September 11, 2013 Chris Gonsalves (Channelnomics) Comments Off on IDC Finds Server Bright Spot in Global HPC Sales
Worldwide revenue for the HPC servers jumped 7.9 percent to $2.6 billion in the second quarter of 2013, up from $2.4 billion in the same period last year.

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