"We need to get [storage] going and growing in the right direction," said Dell Vice Chairman Jeff Clarke, during the company's fourth quarter earnings call on Thursday.
Noting that it is a 'complex calculation,' Dell Technologies CFO Tom Sweet said the company generated a net benefit of $316 million from federal tax reform during its fourth fiscal quarter 2018.
At XChange Solution Provider 2018, NetApp executive Jeremy Hall talks about how customers are willing to give up features and better performance of converged infrastructure in favor of simpler hyper-converged solutions.
Frank Wiacek, who previously worked at Berkshire Computer and EMC, says Red8 will meet customer requirements whether on-premises, in the cloud, or everywhere in between.
"In some of these instances you have to have a few examples that people look at and say, 'Oh God, these people are serious,'" said Dell EMC President Marius Haas.
Among the keys to a tighter alignment will be potential credit for training in a VMware program and synergies on the hyper-converged front with VxRail, Dell EMC executives tell CRN.
"Certifications have always been primarily product-based, but our new certifications are in many areas product agnostic," said Dell EMC's Charles Atkins.
Sakac, who was considering new roles inside and outside of Dell Technologies after his former Converged Platforms and Solutions Division was dissolved in January, decided to lead a small team focused on Pivotal Container Service, or PKS, and integration with other parts of Dell.
"If we can make it easy for partners to actually learn about, understand, package up and sell our broader portfolio, there's nothing stopping us," said Dell EMC Channel Chief Joyce Mullen.
"So we have a saying internally, 'Our say-to-do ratio needs to be extremely high on the do side.' So where they were examples of inappropriate behavior we just said, 'No more,'" said Dell EMC President and COO Marius Haas.
Carbonite said that Mozy's huge customer base benefited from that company's endpoint data protection capabilities, but is ripe for Carbonite's channel partners to bring a wider portfolio of business-oriented disaster recovery, availability, and other services.
Dell Technologies is letting go of its Mozy business unit as the company continues to search for ways to restructure, including possibly filing for an IPO or merging with VMware.
Dell EMC's new VxBlock 1000 increases server scalability by 56 percent, supports up to ten storage arrays and can reduce time for lifecycle management by 75 percent.
Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell said "partners believe in what we're doing" with channel sales increasing double-digits in the first half of fiscal year 2018.
Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell said "partners believe in what we're doing" with channel sales increasing double-digits in the first half of fiscal year 2018.
Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell said "partners believe in what we're doing" with channel sales increasing double-digits in the first half of fiscal year 2018.
