May 31, 2011 7:17 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Cisco,
EMC,
IT channel products and services,
IT channel products and technologies,
the VCE Company,
Vblock,
VMwareOur good buddies at The Virtual Computing Environment Co., last week added four distributors -- Arrow, Avnet, Ingram Micro and Magirus--to its channel roster. that means a VCE VAR selling Vblocks can source all the...
January 20, 2011 9:35 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
channel conflict,
Cisco,
EMC,
IT channel products and services,
IT channel products and technologies,
the VCE Company,
VCE Coalition,
VMwareLookie here, the VCE Company is finally official after an extremely long birthing process reported here. And
December 14, 2010 7:33 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Cisco,
EMC,
IT channel products and technologies,
the VCE Company,
VCE Coalition,
VMwareSo, today the VCE coalition became the VCE Company. Or at least that's the second-hand reports coming out of a series of conference calls hosted Tuesday by VCE, the consortium formed last year...
December 9, 2010 4:27 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Cisco,
EMC,
IT channel products and services,
IT channel products and technologies,
Vblock,
VCE Coalition,
VMware
Data center VARs really want the VCE Coalition to get its sales act together soon and some hope for news along those lines Dec. 14 when coalition execs will talk about what's going on with the VCE Partner Program, go-to-market plans and training.
November 16, 2010 12:58 PM
Posted by: badarrow
3Par,
Barbara Darrow,
EMC,
Hewlett-Packard,
Isilon,
IT channel products and technologies,
StorageThe big get bigger as storage kingpin EMC agreed to buy Isilon for about $2.25 billion (or $33.85 per share) in cash. The news was announced early Tuesday.
Isilon specializes in what it calls scale-out network attached...
November 10, 2010 2:54 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Assureon,
Barbara Darrow,
data archiving,
EMC,
IT channel products and technologies,
Nexsan,
Storage,
Sun storageEvery once in awhile you talk to a VAR who's really excited about a vendor, its products and its partner program. I know, shocker, right!?
Lately Nexsan's hit the radar screen in this respect. Nexsan is seeing phenomenal success recruiting new VARs...
October 25, 2010 6:19 PM
Posted by: Heather Clancy
Cisco,
data center,
EMC,
Heather Clancy,
IT channel products and services,
Microsoft,
NetApp,
Oracle,
SAP,
Virtualization,
VMware,
Westcon,
Westcon GroupData center technology distributor Westcon Group has opened its first LEAP Center in the United States. LEAP is an acronym that stands for Learn, Experience, Architect and Plan. As you might expect, the intention behind these facilities is to help IT solution provider test, train on, and experiment...
November 4, 2009 9:42 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Cisco,
data center,
EMC,
HP,
IT channel products and technologies,
VMwareThe HP vs. Cisco/EMC/VMware hype fight this week re-emphasized that Cisco and EMC (and its subsidiary VMware) are joined at the hip in their aggressive grab for data center share.
Recurring...
October 13, 2009 4:01 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Cisco,
converged hardware,
Dave Donatelli,
EMC,
HP,
IT channel products and technologiesInquiring minds really want to know when HP will add storage to its converged hardware offering.
The answer appears to be as soon after Jan. 2, 2010 as possible.
