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Dell Technologies refreshes PowerEdge servers, software, for edge environments
by Mark Cox •
Servers
Channel Programs, Servers, Storage
Dell Technologies sees pluses for partners in internal restructuring efforts
by Mark Cox •
Dell’s channel delivered good performance numbers in their now-completed Q2, but the big news for the channel in the quarter may be a pair of management changes at Dell that are related to larger organizational restructuring.
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Channel Programs, Networking, Servers, Storage
Supermicro tweaks partner program with new website, marketing and training resources
by Mark Cox •
Supermicro also wants partners to make more use of Centres of Excellence to demonstrate POCs to customers.
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Dell Technologies rolls out new AMD Rome-powered PowerEdge servers
by Mark Cox •
In addition to the five new servers, which combine the high performance of the new AMD chips with Dell’s own IP, Dell is also announcing related management integrations and new Ready Solutions for HPC on these servers.
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Data Centre, Servers
Lenovo sees strong channel opportunity in new single-socket AMD EPYC servers
by Mark Cox •
The first generation of AMD’s EPYC server processors re-established the company in that market, but was mainly a hyperscaler play. The market for the next-generation will be much broader, and a significant opportunity for Lenovo’s channel.
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Servers, Small Business, Storage
HPE upgrades HPE Small Business Solutions portfolio
by Mark Cox •
HPE enhances six of their SMB solutions, to provide more customer choice and provide additional performance and capacity.
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Intel Canada channel chief Phil Vokins sees big impact for new Xeon launch in Canada
by Mark Cox •
Phil Vokins, Intel Channel Manager in Canada, emphasized that the new 2nd-Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors will greatly expand the ability of Canadian customers to use applications requiring dense memory.
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Intel emphasizes data-centric transformation of company at new Xeon launch
by Mark Cox •
While highlighting its new product, including the new Cascade Lake processors and Optane persistent memory, Intel focused on the way it highlights what they said was a fundamental transformation of the company.
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Dell EMC emphasizes synergies between newly-launched Intel processors and its OpenManage software enhancements
by Mark Cox •
While the sizzle in the new Intel server processors is the new Optane persistent memory, Dell EMC is emphasizing that new systems management software enhancements will optimize its potential over competitive servers.
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Lenovo shipping new Cascade Lake-enabled servers and appliances
by Mark Cox •
Lenovo is announcing, and shipping, 15 new ThinkSystem servers and 5 ThinkAgile appliances, which are both optimized to work with Intel’s new Second Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, and add some additional wrinkles of their own.
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Supermicro unveils huge roster of market-ready Cascade Lake SKUs at Intel launch
by Mark Cox •
While its large portfolio of SKUs for any and all use cases has always been a key part of Supermicro’s value proposition to the channel, they are emphasizing their Resource Saving Architecture’s power and saving capabilities in the refreshed models.
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Why hyperconverged won’t slow down in 2019: Dell EMC
by Mark Cox •
Chad Dunn, who runs HCI product management at Dell EMC, thinks the stars are aligned for hyperconverged to continue its breakneck growth rates this year
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Cloud, Data Centre, Servers
Nutanix, Intel announce first formal go-to-market partnership around Intel Data Center Block hardware platforms
by Mark Cox •
Nutanix broadens the server platforms on which its software is available with a new deal with Intel, which will see authorized Nutanix partners be able to brand and personalize the Intel server block platforms.
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HPE SMB leader Tim Peters lays out the business unit strategy, with storage being the next target
by Mark Cox •
HPE made a big play in 2018 around servers in the SMB space, followed up by solutions related to hybrid cloud. While those will continue in 2019, the company is also looking to roll out similar initiatives around simplification around storage and hyper-converged solutions for SMBs.
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HPE extends hybrid cloud composable strategy with HPE Composable Cloud
by Mark Cox •
The big announcement is that the composable capabilities of HPE Synergy has now been extended to rack server environments, but there are several other related goodies, including the expansion of the InfoSight predictive analytics from HPE Nimble beyond storage to all of the infrastructure.
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Western Digital enters in-memory computing segment with software-defined Memory Extension Drive
by Mark Cox •
The first Western Digital offering for this space is the Ultrastar DC ME200 Memory Extension Drive, which augments physical DRAM with between 4x-8x in memory capacity. It will be available to all WD channel partners.
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Supermicro releases new entry level UP servers with Intel Xeon E-2100 chips
by Mark Cox •
Supermicro believes that the new Xeon chips will allow partners to do more with entry level servers than they have in the past.
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Networking, Servers, Small Business
HPE unveils new SMB hybrid cloud solutions around new ProLiant Gen 10 ML30 and DL20 servers
by Mark Cox •
The new solutions include the last two HPE ProLiant servers to be refreshed with Gen 10 technology, as well as software developed in collaboration with Microsoft, which includes new HPE Rapid Setup Software that HPE says will slash partner install times by up to 70 per cent.
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Server, storage success in Q2 show continued Dell EMC progress on integration journey
by Mark Cox •
Kevin Connolly, President of Commercial Sales at Dell EMC Canada gives his take on why the company had another strong quarter, what’s happening in the market, and where Dell EMC still has room for substantial growth in Canada.
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Supermicro ships top-performing 1U all-flash storage server optimized for Samsung NF1 NVMe storage
by Mark Cox •
Supermicro and Samsung will jointly promote the new server aggressively because of its specific customization for the new Samsung SSDs.
