The newly introduced Tesla K80s make possible ultra-fast computation and visualization.

In other top stories from this week, Tami Duncan left her post at IBM. Also, VMware and Carahsoft settle a civil suit with the U.S. government.

Twenty-year IBM veteran Tami Duncan has been replaced by Michele Stern, who has been with the company for 34 years and most recently was vice president of global business partner sales.

IBM Power Systems Vice President and General Manager Douglas Balog details IBM's transformation around open source.

The huge investment provides Cisco with greater visibility and a stronger presence in China to better compete against Huawei and against telecom giant ZTE as well, say solution providers.

Synnex walked away from several low-margin commodity deals in the most recent quarter, leading to a drop in sales and a nearly 10 percent decline in stock price.

While there's no play yet for partners, both companies say they will eventually adopt a channel strategy as they integrate their products and develop new ones.

IBM demonstrates its z13, which it says leaves x86 in the dust.

NetApp admits it dropped the ball on its all-flash storage array strategy, and is now moving aggressively to make up for lost time with its new AFF8000 family, which offers all the software of its FAS line and is available in a software-version for AWS clouds.

'The pivot point right now in this market is moving so fast, we're just positioned to be more agile and make that change faster than some of the other guys,' Dell channel chief Cheryl Cook tells CRN.

The Big Blue acquisition, combined with Cisco's buyout of Piston Cloud, accelerates the consolidation in the OpenStack arena.

Lenovo, which resells storage solutions from EMC and IBM, has unveiled a new line of enterprise storage solutions based on its own intellectual property.

Pushing its open-cloud initiative, Big Blue will allow public cloud users to access all the core capabilities of the OpenStack ecosystem.

The three Power Systems servers, which will be shown off this week at the Edge2015 conference, are most advanced to integrate POWER8 processors.

The all-flash Atlantis HyperScale hyper-converged infrastructure appliance, based on Atlantis Computing's software-defined storage technology, is a software stack that channel partners can use to integrate with choice of server hardware and hypervisor.

Lenovo is adding SAP HANA to the VSPEX reference architecture that combines Lenovo Flex Systems servers with EMC storage.

The demise of one of the open-source technology's hottest startups has sparked a vigorous debate over its future, and the answers are vital to the health of the channel.

Oracle or Microsoft, among others, may be looking to deal a serious blow to competitors, according to reports, by acquiring the cloud computing pioneer.

While Infinidat wasn't quite in stealth mode, it had been quietly selling its InfiniBox unified storage solution with up to 2 petabytes of capacity per standard rack, but a new funding round helped shine a light on the company's technology.

CFO Martin Schroeter tells investors Big Blue is now totally focused on hybrid cloud and other 'strategic imperatives.'