UCS

Hitachi Vantara, Cisco extend partnership around converged infrastructure

March 7, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off

The new Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for Converged Infrastructure will go to market through a select number of channel partners, building on the channel focus of the recent VSP Pro solutions.

Pure Storage plays to packed house in Toronto stop on Live tour

October 10, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

Brent Allen, Pure Storage’s Canadian country manager, was at the Pure//Live event and discussed the company’s progress in Canada with ChannelBuzz.

Nirav Sheth, vice president of global sales in Cisco’s Global Partner Organization

Cisco announces new partner incents

March 28, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

Cisco kicked off its Partner Connection event by announcing new incents designed to put more money in partner pockets. One of them won’t, however, be available right away outside the U.S.

Nutanix expands customer choice in server platforms, validating its software on Cisco UCS

August 18, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

The interesting thing here is that Nutanix has expanded the Cisco support on its own, without Cisco being involved in the validation process. That supports the two companies’ earlier stated position that no partnership where Nutanix would be sold on UCS was in the works. This move may, however, indicate that Nutanix is trying to create momentum towards it.

Cisco chief eyes telling a fuller story

March 4, 2016 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins on why the company needs to connect the dots better, what his channel background brings to the CEO spot, and new partners.

Cisco, Nimble Storage extend partnership with new SmartStack offerings

December 2, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

Two of the three new reference architectures are Cisco Validated Design-backed, a first for the SmartStack solutions, which Nimble expects will help partners in several ways.

Greg Myers, senior vice president of sales and marketing at Tech Data Canada.

SimpliVity signs on Tech Data Canada as exclusive distributor

October 7, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Hyper-converged vendor SimpliVity will seek to grow its market in Canada with an exclusive distribution pact with Tech Data Canada.

John Chambers makes his case for digitization at his final Cisco Live as CEO.

Go digital or perish, Chambers says in swansong

June 9, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off

John Chambers delivers a stark warning to Cisco Live in his final keynote as CEO – while many will try to go digital, most won’t change enough to succeed.