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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.