The three pillars to acceleration in the data center are GPUs, flash storage and high-speed networking, says Sumit Gupta, IBM's vice president of higher-performance computing and data analytics.
Avnet has named interim CEO and former Lenovo leader Bill Amelio as its permanent CEO as the distributor looks to accelerate adoption of emerging technologies.
IBM Vice President Michelle Stern discusses how the vendor has helped its partners through the difficult transition to recurring revenue business through cloud, SaaS and embedded technology solutions.
Dell appeared on-stage with VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger at the opening of the VMworld 2016 conference to assure VMware customers and partners that his company thinks keeping VMware open is the best way to ensure future growth.
VMware Cloud Foundation packages vSphere, VSAN, and NSX software-defined technologies into a software-defined data center that can be run across on-premise and public clouds with any workload.
Arrow Electronics has joined forces with crowdfunding platform Indiegogo to offer up to $50,000 in prototyping and manufacturing benefits to Internet of Things-focused innovators.
Arrow Electronics has joined forces with crowdfunding platform Indiegogo to offer up to $50,000 in prototyping and manufacturing benefits to Internet of Things-focused innovators.
IBM's Storwize all-flash storage technology, which can virtualize multi-vendor storage capacity, will soon be available to use with different vendors' servers.
As the data integration vendor's new channel chief, Foreman will focus on transitioning to an indirect sales strategy with the goal of driving 40 percent of business through partners.
NetApp's shift toward strategic technologies such as all-flash storage led to a slight drop in revenue but growth in profits for its fiscal first quarter.
Avnet is rolling out business units with dedicated staff around data center, cloud, security, analytics, mobility and education to accelerate growth of software-driven technologies.
The new all-flash storage offering is designed for workloads that need the performance of scalable flash technology without many of the high-end features found in offerings costing more on a per-GB basis.
In other top stories from this week, Intel Q2 earnings show the company's continued transformation. Also, Azure boosts Microsoft earnings with tremendous growth.
AT&T and IBM are partnering to help developers and partners create fully baked IoT solutions using a common set of tools. The partnership combines IBM's IoT developer tools and cloud and analytics services, with AT&T's IoT platforms and global network.
Partners hope that making ex-Lenovo CEO Bill Amelio Avnet's interim leader reflects a commitment to cloud and the Internet of Things, but they also said the company needs to improve at reaching out and listening to partners.
