Lenovo Upgrades Servers, Expands EMC, SAP Relationships
Lenovo is adding SAP HANA to the VSPEX reference architecture that combines Lenovo Flex Systems servers with EMC storage.
EMC News From CRN
The Great OpenStack Debate: A Powerful Platform That Will Revolutionize The Data Center? Or A Dud?
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.
Infinidat Unveils $150M Funding, Intros Advanced Unified Storage Solution
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.
EMC Acquires Hybrid Cloud Encryption Company
EMC's acquisition of CloudLink brings technology that will be integrated into the storage vendor's Federation Enterprise Hybrid Cloud.
EMC VAR Angst: New Channel Program Drops Many Partners From Top Levels
The new EMC Business Partner Program, which went live in January, has resulted in many EMC channel partners losing their top status despite all the certifications and specializations they earned.
While Investors Push Breakup, EMC Expects More Acquisitions
While a large group of EMC's investors continue to hope that EMC will sell parts of itself to create more clear valuation for them, EMC is likely heading in the opposite direction by considering more acquisitions, according to a top analyst.
Startup Qumulo Opens Kimono On Data-Aware Scale-Out NAS Solution
Qumulo, founded by much of the same team that started scale-out NAS provider Isilon, has entered the market with a new solution to manage millions of files.
Rubrik Exits Stealth With $10M And Plans To Simplify Data Protection
A-list storage celebrities back the Rubrik Converged Data Management Platform, an appliance-based data protection solution; software vendor Veeam says there's nothing really new here.
EMC Federation Bolsters Big Data Playbook With New Data Lakes Solution
EMC unveils its first data lakes analytics solution aimed at giving partners and businesses the ability to collect, house and analyze data.
Channel Madness Tournament Of Chiefs: Round 1 Matchup Breakdowns
CRN's first-ever Channel Madness Tournament Of Chiefs kicks off Thursday, with Round 1 pitting a handful of channel stalwarts against the top channel execs at some of the industry's hottest young companies.
EMC's Decision To Cut Storage Ties With Ingram Has Distribution Rivals In Full-On Recruitment Mode
Avnet, Tech Data and Arrow are stepping up their game to woo solution providers who had sourced their EMC storage products through Ingram Micro.
The History (So Far) Of The EMC Federation
The dispute between EMC and investors over the fate of the EMC Federation may be new, but it is a product of more than a decade of acquisitions.
EMC CEO Tucci Says Still No Time Frame For Retirement, VMware Won't Be Spun Off
EMC Chairman and CEO Joe Tucci is currently working without a contract as the company looks for his successor, and he's still not shedding any light into how that search is going.
EMC's Chris Riley Steps Back Into The Limelight As HP Noncompete Expires
Chris Riley, who returned to EMC last year but stayed low until his one-year noncompete agreement with HP expired, is now running EMC's global alliances and looking to put an EMC Federation spin on solutions.
EMC Will Keep VMware, For Now At Least
EMC is resisting investor pressure to break up the company, and will keep its stake in VMware, according to Reuters.
Datalink's Bear Data Acquisition: A Drag On Earnings Now, But Future Growth Driver
On its recent earnings call, Datalink's CEO says the acquisition of Bear Data didn't bring in quite as much revenue as expected but its huge networking business makes Cisco a bigger partner.
NetApp Fiscal Q3: Disappointing, But Services, Software Show Path Forward
NetApp will be counting on partners to engage in more professional services as a key part of its ability to grow its business in the face of weak growth in storage product sales.
HP Enterprise Group Reorganization: Blades, Converged Infrastructure Businesses Combined
CRN has learned that HP will combine its server and its converged infrastructure business units into a single Converged Data Center Infrastructure organization to be headed by a longtime HP server executive.
IBM Hires Violin Memory's Herzog In Big Flash Storage Marketing Push
Eric Herzog has left Violin Memory to join IBM just as Big Blue gets ready for a new assault on the all-flash storage array market.
Growing List Of Security Partners Trigger Bit9 Carbon Black Growth
Bit9 Carbon Black executives say the channel is responsible for much of the significant growth behind the company's detection and prevention platform. Eighty percent of the business is driven through the channel.
