CRN Data Center News

For HP And HPE partners, there's no question who is responsible one of the all-time great turnarounds in corporate history - Meg Whitman.

The new Equinix Cloud Exchange Fabric, consolidating ECX and IX, enables customers to rapidly deploy connections to major cloud providers, enterprise partners and customers.

"The fuel for the Internet of Things, digital transformation, artificial intelligence, machine learning, is the data," said Dell CEO Michael Dell, during an event on Tuesday in Boston.

While vendors are innovating at the edge with new products and services, customers remain confused about how they can take advantage of and drive value from edge computing -- and that's where channel partners can step in.

Ingram Micro will bring the EcoStruxure offering from APC parent company Schneider Electric to the channel as a suite able to collect and analyze information from all smart devices in and around the data center.

HPE President Antonio Neri, who takes the CEO post effective Feb. 1, spoke with CRN about the company's ability to deliver public cloud economics on prem with OneSphere multicloud management, the next-generation Synergy private cloud and why the company's 'channel first' model will never change.

Solution providers say they are ecstatic that HPE President Antonio Neri, a 22-year HPE veteran and longtime 'friend' to the channel, is the choice of HPE CEO Meg Whitman and the board of directors to be the company's next CEO.

HPE President Antonio Neri, who will take over as CEO Feb. 1, must honor the relationships that have been long established between the resellers and HPE: "Partners are betting their business on HPE," says one partner.