Data Center Services

6 Leading HCI Vendors In The Midmarket And Their Key Differentiators

by Mark Haranas
As more midsize enterprises seek hyper-converged infrastructure solutions, here are the six vendors and their market differentiators that are winning the midmarket.
5 Keys To HPE’s Innovation-Fueled Formula 1 Partnership With Mercedes-AMG Petronas

by Steven Burke
Matt Harris, the Head of IT at the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula 1 team, says HPE innovation has given the team performance advantages from the factory to the track.
Scale Computing CEO On Sales ‘Tailwinds’ From Dell-VMware Closer Ties

by Mark Haranas
‘Those lines are far blurrier than they use to be in terms of the difference between Dell and VMware. We’re seeing partners say, ‘Look I want to offer my customers something else and I need to offer them something that’s not in that one size fits all Dell category,’” says Scale Computing CEO Jeff Ready in an interview with CRN.
Dell And HPE Fight For Server Share Dominance: Top 5 Server Leaders

by Mark Haranas
‘As long as demand for richly configured servers supports further average selling price growth, the market will offset slight declines in unit volume,’ says Sebastian Lagana, research manager, Infrastructure Platforms and Technologies at IDC.
2019 Software-Defined Data Center 50: Hot SDDC Vendors To Watch

by Mark Haranas
CRN breaks down the 50 vendors who are leading the software-defined data center evolution.
Nutanix CEO ‘Looking Forward’ To Outlasting Naysayers After Stock Drop

by Mark Haranas
‘I think we’ve been naysayed for the last 10 years,’ says Nutanix CEO Dheeraj Pandey in an exclusive interview with CRN.
Antonio Neri: 5 Innovation Advantages To Look For At HPE Discover

by Steven Burke
HPE President and CEO Antonio Neri tells partners that his company's investments in innovation will help them ‘make more money’ in areas like intelligent storage management.
Lenovo's Kevin Hooper: Our Vision Is To Be The ‘Most Trusted Data Center Partner In The Industry’

by Mark Haranas
Kevin Hooper, president of North America for Lenovo’s Data Center Group, spoke with CRN about driving deeper into enterprise and SMB accounts with his plan to attack the data center market alongside a reinvigorated channel strategy.
Dell Technologies World 2019 Preview: 5 Big Things To Expect

by Mark Haranas
CRN breaks down five important news topics that will likely be front and center at Dell Technologies World 2019 next week in Las Vegas.
Data Center Spending To Decline In 2019: 5 Reasons Behind The Fall

by Mark Haranas
Leading Gartner researcher John-David Lovelock talks about the major reasons and trends behind the projected 2.8 percent decline in data center spending in 2019.
Top 4 Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Market Share Leaders

by Mark Haranas
CRN breaks down the hyper-converged infrastructure market share leaders and HCI sales in the fourth quarter 2018 based on new data from IDC.
New HPE-Nutanix Partnership: 5 Things Partners Need To Know

by Mark Haranas
CRN breaks down the five most important channel aspects of Nutanix and Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s first-ever strategic partner around software and servers.
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.
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.