Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins tells partners the company and its partners will have to move faster than ever, announces new cloud strategy and hyperconverged offering.
IBM will turn to distributors to help it build custom bundles of its Power-based servers with Linux and top ISV offerings for the channel.
Nutanix’s 4.6 software release enables key features to its platform announced last summer, as part of their longer-run strategy to be an Amazon-like infrastructure for the enterprise cloud.
After a long restructuring, Avaya now has its two core next-gen offerings available, and has a systematic and well thought out plan to take them to market, leveraging both its channel and internal resources better than in the past. They still have to execute on these better than in the past however.
The combination of the two companies give them what they believe are enormous synergies that can propel them to a leadership role in the hyperconverged space that neither company remotely aspired to when they were separate.
CliQr has been cautious in developing a channel, but is now expanding its go-to-market strategy with both resellers and technology partners.
Plexistor’s Software Defined Memory architecture converges memory and storage technologies to drastically reduce latency and significantly improve performance of data-intensive applications.
Commvault becomes the first data protection vendor to offer support for Nutanix’s own hypervisor, improving the capabilities of their customers and partners in the Nutanix environment.
While Citrix did not unveil any new technology products at its Summit event, it did talk extensively about its product strategy.
Citrix channel chief Kimberly Martin was brought into the company last fall to restructure and improve the company’s channel operations. She discusses her mission, the changes that she announced at her first Citrix Summit, and what remains on the drawing board.
Atlantis also announced a new relationship with Dell, the only major OEM for whom its software was not customized when the first Atlantis hyperconverged products were announced last year.
HP names a well-known Canadian channel veteran as the replacement for Lloyd Bryant in Canada.
Dell is sending a message to its Canadian partners and customers that it intends to double down on innovation notwithstanding its growing even larger with the pending acquisition of EMC.
HPE shows off the first members of its Synergy family of systems that pool compute, storage, and networking for a more cloud-like data centre.
The hyperconverged startup emphasizes the end product, a highly scalable out-of-the-box private cloud initially focused on development and testing environments, rather than the hyperconverged label itself, which they think has been somewhat overused.
Scale, which is distinct among the hyperconverged vendors with its SMB focus, is not new to Canada, but they have added new staff and resources here, and developed new relationships with key DMRs to take their Canadian business to the next level.
Nutanix sees the Lenovo deal as equal in importance to the Dell one inked last year and said its announcement shortly after Dell’s purchase of EMC is a coincidence. The plan is to get jointly branded products to market through Lenovo in Q1 of 2016.
Dell’s North American head Bill Rodrigues laid out Dell’s plans for growth to partners at Dell’s PartnerDirect Summit at Dell World.
Dell and EMC execs say the combined company will be an IT powerhouse from the SMB to the largest enterprise.
Hyper-converged vendor SimpliVity will seek to grow its market in Canada with an exclusive distribution pact with Tech Data Canada.
