Data Center Services

VMware’s Tom Gillis On NSX vs. Cisco ACI, And AWS Outposts Future

by Mark Haranas
‘Cisco products are really good at hardware switching, at fabric management, but where VMware is really good is at software-defined networking,’ says Tom Gillis, senior vice president and general manager for VMware’s Networking and Security business.
IDC Server Market Share Leaders: Dell, HPE, IBM Battle It Out

by Mark Haranas
CRN breaks down the top five server market share leaders in the world during the fourth quarter 2018, according to new data from IDC.
CEO Jeff Ready On Scale Computing Vs. VMware’s vTax And Nutanix

by Mark Haranas
‘The cost of vTax is big, but the real cost is in the ongoing administration of those systems. Over 50 percent of every IT budget is humans. That’s the real cost. To that extent, Nutanix doesn’t solve that problem,’ says Scale Computing CEO Jeff Ready.
HPE CEO Antonio Neri On HPE Versus Cisco’s Edge Computing Strategies

by Steven Burke
HPE CEO Antonio Neri says the HPE edge computing strategy is ‘solution-driven’ versus Cisco's ‘product- driven’ edge strategy.
Lenovo TruScale For Data Centers: 5 Things Partners Need To Know

by Mark Haranas
‘We can enable partners with a base offering, then they can customize it, layer on their own services and make it something unique,’ says Matthew Horne, general manager of TruScale Services for Lenovo’s Data Center Group.
Cumulus And Nutanix Hyper-Converged Partnership: 5 Things To Know

by Mark Haranas
CRN breaks down five things partners and customers need to know about the Nutanix and Cumulus Networks’ new hyper-converged infrastructure partnership.
Global IT Spending To Hit $3.88T By 2020, Gartner Says: 5 Things To Know

by Joseph F. Kovar
Spending will be up from 2018's total global IT spending of $3.65 trillion, but flat spending on data center systems and anemic growth in spending on communications services and IT devices trumps the good growth expected for enterprise software and IT services.
The Best Of The Best: CRN's 2018 Annual Report Card Awards

by Rick Whiting
HPE Aruba, Sophos and Fortinet were among the companies taking top honors at XChange 2018 in the 33rd consecutive Annual Report Card awards.
5 Key Products Inside Dell EMC's New PowerEdge Modular Infrastructure

by Mark Haranas
Here are the five key networking, storage, computing, software and chassis products that make up Dell EMC's new PowerEdge MX modular infrastructure.
5 Things To Know About The New Public Dell And Dell's Stock

by Mark Haranas
Here are five things customers and partners need to know about the new public Dell Technologies after the company hit the New York Stock Exchange on Dec. 28, 2018.
Holiday Gift Guide 2018: 25 Gadgets That Make Great Gifts For Techies

by Kyle Alspach
Wearables, smart speakers and tablets are among the CRN-recommended gifts for this holiday season.
The 10 Biggest Data Center News Stories Of 2018

by Mark Haranas
CRN breaks down the biggest news stories of 2018 from the rise of software-defined data centers and hyper-converged infrastructure to innovations from Dell Technologies and Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
Dell CFO Tom Sweet On Why Going Public Will 'Catapult' Dell Forward

by Mark Haranas
‘From a channel perspective, [going public] should open up additional velocity as we think about how do we more effectively go to market and position integrated solutions,’ says Dell Technologies CFO Tom Sweet in an exclusive interview with CRN.
Michael Dell On Dell Going Public And Its 'Best Year Ever'

by Mark Haranas
‘We think the demand is going to continue to be very strong in 2019. The momentum we have in the channel is quite strong. It's a very different company than it was five or 10 years ago,’ Dell founder and CEO Michael Dell tells CRN in an exclusive interview.
CRN's 2018 Products Of The Year

by Kyle Alspach
CRN editors looked at the best new products and major updates of 2018 and then turned to solution providers to choose the winners based on technology, revenue and profit opportunities, and customer demand.