Data Center

Scale Computing, APC Jointly Develop HCI-Based ‘Micro Data Center In A Box’ Offering

by Joseph F. Kovar

The offering combines Scale Computing's HC1150 hyper-converged infrastructure appliances with APC's racks, UPSs, and network management technology that is shipped fully integrated by Ingram Micro.

Lenovo And NetApp Join Forces To Take On Dell, HPE In Storage Arena

by Mark Haranas

Lenovo and NetApp unveiled new co-developed storage solutions at Lenovo Transform 2.0 on Thursday with plans to create a new joint company in China next year.

Dell Dominates Global Server Market In Q2

by Matt Brown

‘Our server business is taking off,’ says Dan Serpico, CEO of solution provider FusionStorm, ‘and it's because of Dell's superior technology, its great channel program and its complete and complementary portfolio.’

Lenovo Preps For Transform 2.0 Event, Looks To Reach Higher Into Data Center

by Joseph F. Kovar

Lenovo will be using its Transform 2.0 event to introduce new hyper-converged, server and storage capabilities as part of a push to be a bigger part of customers' and partners' data center infrastructure plans.

Dell Storage Sales Explode As Infrastructure Business Innovation Pays Off

by Mark Haranas

‘We've made a lot of changes in our primary storage business over the past year. The product line is far more competitive today,’ says Jeff Clarke, vice chairman, products and operations at Dell.

Vapor IO Secures Funding To Deploy Its Edge Computing Model Across The Nation

by Joseph Tsidulko

The startup will build out micro data centers in urban environments and offer co-location services next to users and cellular infrastructure.

VMware NSX Leader On Extending Into Azure, AWS And Kubernetes

by Mark Haranas

Tom Gillis, senior vice president and general manager of VMware's networking and security business, talks to CRN about his NSX strategy in public clouds and Kubernetes.

HPE CEO Neri: Hyper-Converged Sales Are Soaring, Hitting $1B Run Rate

by Steven Burke

‘For partners. this means they are making more money,’ Neri tells CRN after HPE posts results for its third fiscal quarter ended July 31 well above Wall Street expectations. ‘As we pivot to the new solutions in value compute, storage and intelligent edge this is all good profitable growth for our partners.’

Cisco, Veeam Create 'Game-Changer' Hyper-Converged HyperFlex Partnership

by Mark Haranas

The new Veeam High Availability data management platform will be integrated into Cisco's hyper-converged infrastructure HyperFlex.

AWS Channel Leader Terry Wise: Amazon RDS On VMware 'Creates More Opportunity' And 'Choice' For Partners

by Mark Haranas

‘We're taking native AWS services and extending it to the VMware environments. So it creates tighter integration and more opportunity for partners,’ AWS’ Wise says in an interview with CRN.

Dell EMC CTO: 'Highly Diffused And Distributed' IT Environments Are The Future

by Mark Haranas

"Five years from now, we'll be living in a highly diffused and distributed environment and code needs to be properly placed along with the data it uses to be effective," said Dell EMC's Global CTO John Roese at the 2018 Cloud Foundry Summit.

Michael Dell: Dell Has No Plans To Combine With VMware

by Mark Haranas And Steven Burke

Partners say that the decision to have VMware remain independent while still being able to closely develop products with Dell is a win-win for the channel.

Dell Channel Star VirtuIT Created Own Private Cloud To Combat AWS -- And It's Working

by Mark Haranas

"We're beating Amazon's [public cloud] price by 15 to 20 percent," said VirtuIT President Michael Murphy.

Maxta CMO On Hyper-Converged Advantage Over Nutanix

by Mark Haranas

"With an appliance model you have to essentially repurchase that software license every time you refresh. With Maxta, you can refresh as many times as you want," said Matxa CMO Barry Phillips.

Nutanix Sales Soar As Hiring Hits All-Time High With 'Renewed Focus' On Channel Partners

by Mark Haranas

"We expect a lot from the channel in the coming months and years," said Nutanix CEO Dheeraj Pandey, during the company's successful third quarter earnings report Thursday.