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Dell EMC tinkers with cloud-enabled infrastructure solutions portfolio

August 28, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell EMC tinkers with cloud-enabled infrastructure solutions portfolio
There were few – actually no – major Dell EMC new product announcements made around their cloud infrastructure portfolio at VMworld. There were a lot of little ones, however, as well as some overarching messaging about focus and strategy.

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Data Centre

Dell EMC strengthens their Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI offering

July 16, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell EMC strengthens their Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI offering
A new flexible consumption model for partners to sell is the big channel play here, although the product enhancements, including a new all-flash configuration option are also significant.

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Storage

Dell EMC upgrades VxRail, VxRack in push towards VMware-based Clouds

May 2, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell EMC upgrades VxRail, VxRack in push towards VMware-based Clouds
Technology from the latest 14th generation PowerEdge servers significantly beefs up both the new Vxrail and VxRack offerings.

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Servers

‘Old news’ of NetApp HCI solution availability still the big INSIGHT highlight to NetApp channel

October 4, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on ‘Old news’ of NetApp HCI solution availability still the big INSIGHT highlight to NetApp channel
The first-ever NetApp HCI solution, announced in June, will be available in October, and that, rather than the shinier and newer announcements at INSIGHT, was what had solution providers buzzing.

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Big Data

Dell EMC launches packaged solutions with Splunk for both SMB and enterprise

October 2, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell EMC launches packaged solutions with Splunk for both SMB and enterprise
The new Dell EMC Ready solutions are not channel-only offerings, but they are well-suited for the channel.

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Backup

Dell EMC announces hyper-converged, hybrid cloud upgrades

August 28, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell EMC announces hyper-converged, hybrid cloud upgrades
In addition to upgrades to VxRail, VxRack SDDC, both their Enterprise and Native hybrid clouds, and new turnkey VMware Ready Systems for ‘do it yourself’ cloud deployments, Dell EMC also announced GA for XtemIO X2 and an upgrade of their Dell Data Protection Suite for Applications.

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Tech Data adapts VMware plug-ins to enhance Dell EMC hyper-converged solutions

May 10, 2017 Mark Cox 1
Tech Data is now using cloud services it acquired with Avnet Technology Solutions that were created for VMware vRealize to enhance automation for VxRail and VxRack environments.

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