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EMC-VMware VxRail appliance upgrades VSPEX Blue in VCE hyper-converged lineup

February 18, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

VxRail has the same concept as last year’s unsuccessful EMC first foray into hyperconverged, but is designed to be much more flexible and modular, and benefits greatly from an improved software stack. It will also be available through all EMC partners, not just ones certified on VCE.

EMC VSPEX portfolio being expanded into the enterprise

May 5, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

The channel-exclusive VSPEX solutions, which have been targeted at mid-market and SMB customers, are being expanded to the enterprise with the addition of the EMC VMAX 100K enterprise data services platform.

Lenovo announces broad range of enterprise servers

May 5, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

The new offerings include new four and eight socket X6 systems, Lenovo Flex System X6 Compute Nodes, and both Lenovo X6 and joint Lenovo-EMC solutions optimized for SAP HANA.

New VCE VxRack designed to bring appliance simplicity to datacentre

May 4, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

EMC sees this as a new category of product, which provides the same benefits as hyperconverged appliances provide, but to the datacentre, where the appliances do not scale well.

Steve Kaplan, vice president of channel and strategic sales at Nutanix.

Nutanix adds Canadian channel sales director

February 19, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Frank Czyz, new Canadian channel chief at Nutanix, looks to replicate the hyperconverged vendor’s U.S. success in getting closer to top partners.

EMC partners with Ottawa’s CloudLink on integrated RecoverPoint cloud solution

September 30, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off

The joint offering with EMC, available through EMC and its channel, is designed to provide a secure Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service offering that is less expensive and less complex to deploy than existing DR solutions.

EMC adds RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines

August 26, 2014 Mark Cox 1

The biggest attraction for the channel here is likely to be its integration with VSPEX, when that is available in Q4.

Jeremy Burton, president of EMC's Information Infrastructure group.

EMC programs look to allay customer flash fears

July 8, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off

EMC announces a trio of programs to address customer concerns with flash storage, including a guarantee that XtremIO products will last at least 7 years.

Chris Sullivan, vice president of channel and investor alliances for VCE

Cisco, EMC close ranks for new VCE partner program

May 1, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off

VCE, Cisco, and EMC come together for their first joint partner program, aiming to get partners to elevate the conversation around converged infrastructure.