Data Center Services

Hyper-Converged Market Leaders: Forrester Scores 11 Top Providers

by Mark Haranas
CRN breaks down Forrester's hyper-converged scorecards and rankings on the leading HCI software providers including VMware, Pivot3, Cisco, NetApp, HPE and Nutanix.
The 2018 Tech Innovator Awards

by Kyle Alspach
The ability to help solution providers differentiate themselves and grow their businesses is the crowning achievement of CRN’s Tech Innovator winners and finalists.
CRN Exclusive: HPE Stepping Up Its Partner Services Offensive

by Joseph F. Kovar
HPE's Pointnext services arm for now expanding the data center services it brings to clients, but starting in January will aggressively court its channel partners with a new single-SKU Datacenter Care Services Starter Pack to make it easier for them to bring to clients.
5 New Dell EMC VMware Product Integrations You Need To Know About

by Mark Haranas
CRN breaks down five new Dell EMC and VMware integrations that channel partners need to know about.
Veeam Co-Founder Ratmir Timashev On Strategic Growth, And Co-CEO Peter McKay's Departure

by Matt Brown
Veeam co-founder Ratmir Timashev says his company has a 100 percent channel sales strategy and several powerful alliances with top hardware vendors.
CRN Exclusive: Commvault CEO Hammer On CEO Succession, Regaining Mindshare, And Increasing Competition

by Joseph F. Kovar
Robert Hammer tells CRN that he is participating in the search for a new CEO, and that he wants to make it clear that Commvault is once again a powerhouse in the data protection market no matter how much noise the smaller startup competitors make.
HPE CEO Antonio Neri On Data Management, Teaming With VMware, And Why Competitors Are Going To Hit A Hardware Wall

by Steven Burke
‘You're going to see going forward a tremendous shift in the way we think about data management. And, by the way, the services piece of this is huge,’ said Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Antonio Neri at The Channel Company’s 2018 Best of Breed Conference.
5 New Dell EMC Partner Program Incentives And Enhancements You Need To Know

by Mark Haranas
Dell EMC launches several new incentive programs and channel enhancements that all solution providers should know about.
Michael Dell On The Impact of China Tariffs, Public Cloud Backlash And VMware Synergies

by Mark Haranas
"As much as 80 percent of the customers across all segments – small, medium, large – are reporting that they're repatriating workloads back to on-premise systems because of cost, performance and security," said Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell in an interview with CRN.
Top 5 Best-Selling Server Brands In Q2 2018

by Mark Haranas
HPE, Dell and Cisco sold the most server units in the second quarter of 2018 through distributors and resellers, according to The NPD Group.
Lenovo's Kirk Skaugen: 'Our Channel Momentum Is Stronger Than Ever'

by Mark Haranas
"We're going to be the most channel-friendly storage company on the planet," said Kirk Skaugen, President of Lenovo's Data Center Group an in interview with CRN.
Lenovo CEO Yang Yuanqing’s 5 Boldest Statements From Transform 2.0

by Mark Haranas
Lenovo CEO Yang Yuanqing talks computing power, artificial intelligence and data technology driving digital transformation at the company’s Transform 2.0 event.
5 Things To Know About Lenovo-NetApp's Strategic Partnership

by Mark Haranas
Here are the five biggest highlights of Lenovo and NetApp's new strategic partnership unveiled today at Lenovo Transform 2.0 event.
The 7 Most Important Things To Know About Cisco's New AI-Focused UCS Server

by Matt Brown
The C480ML is the second new server model Cisco has rolled out since late May, and the new Nvidia GPU-loaded model is intended for customers seeking to harness the data they create to drive favorable business outcomes.
Dell Investor Relations Roadshow: 4 Reasons Dell-VMware Is A Winning Hand

by Mark Haranas
Dell Technologies is hitting the road to convince VMware tracking stock shareholders to agree to a buyout. Here are four reasons why Dell believes the deal is a winning hand for VMware tracking stock shareholders.