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Today’s headline news for Canadian IT solution providers: Hewlett Packard Enterprise expands software channel push: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is doubling its dedicated sales team to drive its Hybrid CloudOps software portfolio through the channel. According to CRN, Rocco Lavista, vice president and general manager of worldwide Hybrid CloudOps software sales at HPE, noted that rising global memory prices and the resulting hardware cost pressures are actively driving demand for virtualization alternatives like VM Essentials. For Canadian MSPs and VARs grappling with supply chain volatility and tightening server margins, the vendor’s expanded software push offers a potential pivot point to maintain profitability through higher-margin recurring revenue streams. AvePoint and Omdia research highlights AI governance gap: AvePoint and Omdia have released new global research indicating that governance and compliance, rather than technical capability, represent the primary barrier to AI monetization. Based on a survey of over 300 MSPs, 51 percent cited governance as the main obstacle to customer AI adoption. The report highlights a significant execution gap: while 94 percent of respondents are committed to AI readiness, only 43 percent report high maturity in their service delivery. As Canadian solution providers face increasing data sovereignty requirements, the research suggests that packaging AI governance as a standalone service is a viable path to capturing a share of a market Omdia projects will reach $276 billion by 2030. ESET tracks cyber insurance influence on the channel: Security vendor ESET has published its 2026 SMB Cyber Readiness Index, highlighting the growing influence of cyber insurance underwriters on the managed services landscape. The report found that 78 percent of Canadian small and medium-sized businesses now carry cyber insurance, with insurers increasingly mandating specific security controls. Among Canadian SMBs that outsource their security, 27 percent are now bypassing traditional providers to use a cyber insurer offering Managed Detection and Response (MDR) services. For the Canadian channel, the data underscores a critical shift: insurers are setting the baseline, and MSPs must integrate advanced monitoring capabilities to prevent clients from migrating to insurer-provided solutions. Read Full Transcript Welcome to The Buzz from ChannelBuzz.ca, I’m Robert Dutt, today is Thursday, April 23, 2026, and here’s what’s happening in the channel today. Hewlett Packard Enterprise is doubling its dedicated sales team to drive its Hybrid CloudOps software portfolio through the channel. According to Rocco Lavista, vice president and general manager of worldwide Hybrid CloudOps software sales at HPE, the vendor is actively working to accelerate partner attach rates for its software suite. Lavista recently noted that rising global memory prices and the resulting hardware cost pressures are actively driving demand for virtualization alternatives like VM Essentials. For Canadian MSPs and VARs grappling with supply chain volatility and tightening server margins, the vendor’s expanded software push offers a potential pivot point to maintain profitability through higher-margin recurring revenue streams. AvePoint and Omdia have released new global research indicating that governance and compliance, rather than technical capability, represent the primary barrier to AI monetization for managed service providers. Based on a survey of over three hundred MSPs, fifty-one percent cited governance as the main obstacle to customer AI adoption. The report highlights a significant execution gap: while ninety-four percent of respondents are committed to AI readiness, only forty-three percent report high maturity in their actual service delivery. As Canadian solution providers face increasing data sovereignty and privacy requirements, the research suggests that packaging AI governance as a distinct, standalone service may be the most viable path to capturing a share of a market Omdia projects will reach two hundred and seventy-six billion dollars by 2030. Security vendor ESET has published its 2026 SMB Cyber Readiness Index, highlighting the growing influence of cyber insurance underwriters on the managed services landscape. The report found that seventy-eight percent of Canadian small and medium-sized businesses now carry cyber insurance, with underwriters increasingly mandating specific security controls as a condition of coverage. Among Canadian SMBs that outsource their security, twenty-seven percent are now bypassing traditional providers to use a cyber insurer offering Managed Detection and Response services, while thirty-eight percent remain with a traditional MSP. For the Canadian channel, the data underscores a critical shift: insurers are actively setting the security baseline, and MSPs must integrate advanced monitoring capabilities to prevent clients from migrating to insurer-provided solutions. Later today on In The Channel, my conversation with Eric Arcese, vice president of global partner marketing at Dell Technologies, discussing the AI Factory, VxRail’s evolution, and what’s ahead. And if you haven’t heard it yet, be sure to check out yesterday’s chat with Rewst founder Aharon Chernin on building the automated MSP. That’s how we’re seeing the headlines today. I’m Robert Dutt for ChannelBuzz.ca, thanks for listening.

Eric Arcese, vice president of global partner marketing at Dell Technologies Dell Technologies vice president of global partner marketing Eric Arcese joins In The Channel ahead of Dell Technologies World, and his central message for Canadian partners is worth sitting with: the AI Factory is Dell’s story, but the seams around it belong to the channel. Arcese describes looking at the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA topology slide at a recent Dell Tech World and seeing the “gaps, the seams” – the services, the data work, the outcome-level integration – as the real opportunity for partners. As enterprise AI adoption moves beyond hyperscaler buildouts into mid-market and commercial customers, those gaps are where Canadian MSPs and VARs have natural advantages: proximity to the customer, industry intimacy, and the ability to make the technology real. On the VxRail-to-Dell Private Cloud transition, Arcese frames the shift around the economics of AI – disaggregated infrastructure lets customers independently scale GPUs, storage, and networking for specific workloads. Hypervisor choice is preserved across Red Hat, Microsoft, VMware, and others, and partners building Dell Private Cloud practices can access up to 10% incremental incentives. The AI PC conversation moves past the usual productivity pitch. With over 500 million PCs still running Windows 10 and enterprise fleets averaging three to five years old, the refresh is as much a security imperative as a performance one – a stronger entry point for MSPs already in the endpoint security conversation with their customers. The episode closes with a preview of the Global Partner Summit at Dell Technologies World, May 18-21 in Las Vegas. Demand signals replacing traditional leads, AI-assisted quoting and deal registration, a “modern partner-centric transaction ecosystem” – the “simple, predictable, profitable” mantra is getting operational substance. The details come in May. Read Full Transcript Hello and welcome to In The Channel from ChannelBuzz.ca, bringing news and information to the Canadian IT channel community for the last 16 years. I’m Robert Dutt, editor of ChannelBuzz.ca, and your host for the show. Dell Technologies World is coming up in May, and for the Dell partner community, it’s the biggest event on the calendar – the place where the direction for the partner program gets set for the year ahead. As we head toward that, there’s a lot for Canadian resellers and MSPs to be thinking about. The partner program has been evolving. The shift from VxRail to Dell Private Cloud is still very much unfolding. The AI infrastructure opportunity is reshaping what customers expect and what partners are expected to deliver. The question of where a Canadian MSP or VAR actually fits into all of that – that’s a real and pressing one. To help me make sense of it, I sat down with Eric Arcese, Vice President of Global Partner Marketing at Dell Technologies. Eric’s been in the industry for over 25 years, with roots going back to the EMC era, so he’s been watching and shaping how the Dell partner ecosystem operates for a long time. We talked about where partners fit in the AI story, the VxRail transition, the AI PC refresh, and what you can expect from the Global Partner Summit in May. Let’s get right into it, my chat with Eric Arcese. Robert Dutt: Eric, thanks for taking the time. I appreciate it. Eric Arcese: Thanks, Robert, for having me. Robert Dutt: You’re the Vice President of Global Partner Marketing at Dell. Can you give me a sense of what that actually means day-to-day? What are you responsible for, and what does the Dell partner community look like from where you’re sitting? Eric Arcese: Well, the partner community has been a tremendous growth engine and a critical and existential part of our go-to-market in everything that we do. We have partners around the world, we have some of our very best in Canada, and our partners really bring our technology to life with our shared customers around the world. We can’t do what we do in the market without the phenomenal partners that we have. In my role leading global partner marketing, that is to make sure that our story resonates, that we’re bringing that value proposition to life for our partners. They have choices, just like customers do, each and every day – who they’re going to invest in, who they’re going to work with, what they’re going to focus on learning, how they’re going to enable their sellers, their pre-sales folks. And we want to make sure that our partners feel really good about working with us, building businesses with us, developing practices with us, and ultimately growing with us in the markets that they serve for the customers that we collectively support. I love what I do. I’ve been in tech for over 25 years, here at Dell for over 25 years as well, and I could not think of a place I would rather be. Supporting our very best partners in Canada and around the world, and all that we do – that’s a little bit about what I do. I work very closely with my team around the world, and with our regional marketing folks as well, to make sure that that last mile of what we deliver for partners is well-aligned and adds value to partners in the ecosystem. So that’s a little bit about what I do, Robert. Robert Dutt: I feel like 2026 is a bit of an inflection point for the partner community writ large, and the definition of a Dell partner seems broader than it’s ever been. You’ve talked about partners moving beyond reselling into being architects, advisors, ecosystem builders – all that kind of good stuff. What do you see as the state of the Dell partner community right now, and how have you seen that picture change over recent months, and I guess the last year or two? Eric Arcese: Robert, you and I have both been in tech for the last couple of decades, and there have been different chapters, different inflection points. What we’re seeing now is a moment like we’ve never seen before. This is obviously all driven by AI, but it puts infrastructure, solutions, integrations, and outcomes at the forefront of everything that our partners deliver and everything our customers are demanding. So we’re in this moment that’s existential in tech and everything that we do, where we need to accelerate time to value with infrastructure. And when it really dawned on me, Robert – it was a couple of years ago, at a Dell Technologies World; you might have been there too. We had this announcement, and we called it the AI Factory with NVIDIA. And we had a picture on a slide – like so many of you have seen, with a chevron – data coming in on one side, use cases and business outcomes on the other, but layered through all of that, you had services, AI, software, infrastructure. And there were gaps when I saw this slide, and I was thinking to myself: the gaps, the seams, that’s where the opportunity lies for our partners around the world. Dell is the infrastructure provider of choice. We are the leader in everything that we provide – right from commercial PCs, to storage, to servers, AI servers – and stitching it all together through the topology upon which we develop those outcomes creates a huge opportunity for our partners. So that’s what gets me really excited about the moment. We’re meeting the moment. Our technology is meeting the moment, our partners are meeting the moment, and we’re working each and every day with those partners to deliver real AI-driven outcomes around the world. And some customers get it – and those that don’t, won’t be here very long. So there is this urgency, and we see that in our demand across the board. And I won’t go into earnings from last year, but you’ve probably seen that the year that we just posted, we’re seeing that come to life in every market. We’re seeing that in Canada, no doubt about it as well. It’s hard not to get excited about it. This is a very special time indeed. Robert Dutt: So the AI Factory – definitely been a centrepiece of the story for the last couple of years, as you point out. When I look at it from the perspective of my audience – from the MSP or the VAR serving mid-market and SMB customers – the massive GPU cluster buildouts feel like they’re kind of happening somewhere else. Can you help me fill in the story for the regional partner who isn’t doing hyperscale deployments and where they fit into the AI infrastructure story at this point? Eric Arcese: It’s a great question. I think that’s a little bit of the elephant in the room, right? The first couple of years, it’s like – yeah, you’re reading about these multi-billion-dollar deals, but where are they happening? And those deals were happening at the hyperscale level. The next question is: when is there enterprise AI adoption? When does a traditional enterprise customer really start embracing AI at every level? And you know what? We’re seeing that now. The trajectory of that growth is accelerating, and it’s terrific to see. To your point, Robert, those first couple of quarters, first year or two – the question was: what about enterprise adoption? And that’s where our partners are incredibly well positioned to make it real. What are the outcomes? What are the use cases? What are the business processes we’re going to focus on to bring that infrastructure to a place where it’s adding real value? The people in that workflow who make that real – that’s our partners. Dell’s partners. Because our partners in Canada are incredibly intimate with the industry, the customer, the use cases, the business priorities – whether it’s in the public or private sector. We’re providing that infrastructure at Dell Technologies, but our partners are making it real because they have that intimacy. They’re pressing the flesh, they’re working with customers each and every day, they know what those priorities are, and they can reconcile where those investments need to be made to help accelerate time to value. So with all of that comes a massive services and consulting opportunity. It’s not just the infrastructure – it’s the value-added services that our partners are building upon that infrastructure. And we’re seeing some terrific practices getting built with our partners around the world. When we work together, we win together, and we’re seeing that each and every day. Robert Dutt: Can you make that just a little bit more concrete for me? What are the consulting-type services you see partners bringing to bear right now – especially for that partner serving, let’s say, a 500-person financial services firm? Just to set an example of a mid-market-type opportunity where there may be an AI Factory angle, but it’s not the hyperscale wheelhouse. Eric Arcese: You know, if you think about it – four or five years ago, you and I would be having this conversation and it would be about a cloud-first model, and then we’d probably evolve into hybrid cloud, using public or private cloud based on the right workload. Now the way we think about it, it’s not a cloud-first model. It’s more around data. It’s the data model. Making sure we have the right data on the right workload, because if you plug an LLM or any AI-driven workload or a GPU behind suboptimal data, you’re going to get suboptimal outcomes. So when we think about where a partner is going to focus – irrespective of the industry, whether it’s public sector, banking, telco, manufacturing – I think starting with a real inventory of what that data topology looks like, and what the business outcome is that we’re looking to achieve. And no matter what industry the customer is from, one quickly realizes they’re all in the data business. Our partners can, number one, do a great assessment of where that critical data is and where it’s living. And number two, marry that data to the right business outcome in terms of what they’re trying to deploy. So I think it really starts with the data, and building practices that understand the workload, the industry, the vertical, and the data – that is key. And that creates a lot of opportunity. We talk about servers, storage, client, PCs, and networking all the time, but that is where that data is going to live, and we’re going to build that AI practice off of it. That initial assessment – where an AI practice starts – all begins with data, Robert. It’s really having that data-informed conversation. And then a lot of this is a change in mindset, in terms of what you’re doing with that data and what the expectations are. Robert Dutt: All right. From one reference architecture to another – talk about the transition from VxRail to Dell Private Cloud. Michael Dell’s been pretty direct about the direction. And I know you have roots going back to EMC, so it might be a bit personal. But for a partner who’s built a real practice, a real business, around VxRail over the last decade – what does that transition actually look like, and where do you see the services opportunity opening up as customers make that move? Eric Arcese: Robert, it’s such a great question. Because for years we talked about converged infrastructure, hyperconverged infrastructure – packaging, which made a lot of sense. You package a pre-architected and engineered system and you deliver it, to drive an accelerated business outcome. Time to value of infrastructure. The industry, with our partners, built a multi-billion-dollar business and a new market that was very well received. Then you wake up a couple of years later and now we’re talking about disaggregated infrastructure with Dell Private Cloud. And one may wonder: wait a second – we thought it was all about putting it all together and delivering it with speed. What’s changed? And I had to ask myself the same question, Robert. What’s changed? Well, the economics of AI have changed. The centre of gravity in terms of what is needed for these AI outcomes has been driven by a huge development – and that development is the GPU. The GPU is the accelerator of all the processing. And sometimes you need more GPU investment than you would need in storage, than you would need in client. You still need them across the board. So when you think about that economic backdrop of AI, the economics lend themselves to a more disaggregated infrastructure where you can dial up storage, server, networking, depending on what is needed for that specific workload, LLM, or AI platform that you’re rolling out. Also – customers want choice. They don’t want to be locked into one hypervisor. Maybe they want to work with Red Hat. Maybe they want to work with Microsoft. Maybe they want to work with VMware – they’re a VMware shop. Maybe they want to work with Nutanix. Allowing customers to have that choice empowers them, but it also creates opportunity for our partners, to your point, Robert. Because our partners are ultimately going to help our shared customers navigate those choices and reconcile those priorities from a hypervisor perspective, to optimize whatever application they’re rolling out. So it’s really about customer choice. And for me, the coolest thing to see is how quickly this has evolved. We’re doubling down on customer choice. Partners earn up to 10% incremental incentives. We’ve really built a program to drive profitable practices around Dell Private Cloud and strengthen and deepen those relationships. So we’re seeing this real shift from pre-packaged hyperconverged infrastructure to disaggregated infrastructure that’s truly optimized and tailored to Dell Private Cloud. Very exciting to see, Robert. Robert Dutt: Pivoting to the device side of things – the AI PC refresh is a significant cycle for the channel right now. For the Canadian VAR or even an MSP selling into the commercial market, what’s the marketing story that you’re giving them to make that conversation land? Especially with customers who are already stretched on IT budgets and might be looking at that three-year-old PC and saying, “good enough to get me through another year.” Eric Arcese: It might be. But it probably isn’t. And it’s not just the productivity benefits you’re going to see with an AI PC – it’s the security requirements that we’re all going to need. Because AI is terrific for the good, but it has also empowered the bad actors to get to where we work every day. Last year was all about the tech refresh from Windows 10 to Windows 11. We still have over 500 million PCs running Windows 10, and enterprise fleets averaging three to five years of age. So customers definitely need to act on that – to bring that AI capability to the edge, but also to meet the security requirements we need to protect that edge from reaching into the core. We started naturally in the data centre in our conversation today, Robert, but that edge – where are you working every day? What are you touching every day? It’s your PC. That’s your workforce. That’s what’s in front of you, whether at work or at home. And there’s just a tremendous opportunity there for our partners. We’re the number one commercial PC provider in the world, and it starts with what’s in front of you each and every day. We’re excited about that opportunity. That hasn’t gone away. We had a terrific CES, and there’s just more greenfield opportunity for our partners in Canada to win with Dell’s PC portfolio. Robert Dutt: Bouncing around a little bit from topic to topic here – you guys made some program changes for 2026, as most vendors are wont to do from time to time. The Titanium incentives probably being the most visible of them, but there’s also this broader “simplified, predictable, profitable” philosophy underneath it. From a marketing standpoint, what’s the message you most want partners to internalize about what Dell is committing to this year? Eric Arcese: One of the things I love about partner marketing, Robert, is the work is never over. And you can appreciate that – you’ve been in the channel just as long as I have. The work of creating a simple, predictable, profitable motion for our partners really never ends, because everything we talked about just keeps evolving. We want to make sure we have a simplified motion – taking friction out of the system. We want to make sure it’s predictable: you know what you’re going to get, you know how we’re going to engage with you. And it’s profitable: you want to make sure that you’re making money working with Dell Technologies in Canada. So we’re doing a lot around demand signals – how do we accelerate what used to be a lead, which is now a demand signal, the outcome of many different predictive analytics and data points on the markets that we serve with our partners. We want to make sure we’re simplifying that lead management and fostering seamless collaboration in that motion. We also want to make sure that from a deal reg perspective, we are managing opportunities together and protecting where our Canadian partners have invested. We want to do all of that to accelerate engagement, simplify processes, and empower our Dell sellers with a smarter and streamlined motion. And then quoting and buying – we want to make sure we are priced to win across the board, and we’re building a modern, partner-centric transaction ecosystem that connects product discovery to order management in one end-to-end platform. You’re going to be hearing more and more about that in the months to come. I think you’ll be at Dell Technologies World with us, so I’m excited to share more there. That mantra of simple, predictable, profitable – that work never ends. We’re seeing the fruits of our labour here and the success we’ve had in Canada over the last couple of years. And we’re really proud of the work that we’ve done. We’re very grateful and humbled by so many amazing partners in Canada that have really doubled down on Dell across the board, across the portfolio. Because when you have a great program that rewards the right investment, and you have wonderful people – I love the alliteration of portfolio, program, people – there’s nothing you can’t do. When we work together, we truly are winning together in Canada. Robert Dutt: To your point that it never ends – it just keeps evolving. You rightly pointed out we’re not too far away from Dell Technologies World, and the Global Partner Summit is a big part of that. There’s been some preview of a new integrated partner experience that sounds like it goes beyond a typical program update. Without asking you to scoop your own announcements – although if you want to, please feel free. Eric Arcese: Ha – I’ll be good. I’ll do my best. Robert Dutt: What’s the problem you’re aiming to solve for partners with this platform approach? What’s the philosophy behind what we’re likely to see roll out in the near future? Eric Arcese: What we talked about – meeting the moment – it is a truly special time. And we want to make sure our partners have the speed to deliver what we collectively need to for our shared customers, and the scale to do it across every market, across every part of our portfolio, across every partner type. What you’ll see at Dell Technologies World – as you always do – is the product of investments we’ve made over not just the year, but over years. From a portfolio perspective, programmatically, you’re going to see how when partners invest and build their practices and businesses on Dell, they will be rewarded. And then you get to spend time with our people who support our partners in Canada and around the world. Not to mention, we have a great time in Vegas, as one always does. So it’s the place to be. We’re a couple of weeks out and we’re seeing the excitement and anticipation building. We have a lot to share at our Global Partner Summit at Dell Technologies World. Robert, I believe you’re planning on being there – we’re looking forward to seeing you and spending time with you as well. And we’re going to have a great representation not just of Canadian partners but the Canadian customers we work so hard serving each and every day. It’s going to be a blast, as it always is. Robert Dutt: You touched a while back on some of the day-to-day operational things that partners tell me they feel the most friction on – not specific to Dell, but across the industry. Deal reg, quoting, lead sharing, the need to do all of that faster at higher scale. Is the vision here to make those kinds of operational experiences meaningfully more autonomous and self-serve? Is AI in the partner platform something partners will feel starting in May, or is that still on the horizon? Eric Arcese: Well, I prefer drinking your own champagne to eating your own dog food – so I’ll go with the bubbly analogy there. But we have very much been, for years now, investing in a very big way in our partner business and the platforms that support those partners. We want to make sure that we’re using an AI-first approach across the board in everything that we do – to take friction out of the system, and to have an AI-first mantra in all we do when it comes to empowering our people and our partners. I look at the AI that we’re investing in to support our partners as a real force multiplier. How do you get the power of the portfolio to our customers? How do you enable our partners to know that portfolio? How do you make sure that when you’re quoting and ordering, you’re doing that in the most efficient way – so that customers aren’t waiting, they’re getting the right configuration at the right time, for the right workload, at the price that makes the most sense, and we’re delivering value? We want partners to be able to deliver that value, because when they do, they grow – and when they grow, it’s good for our partners, it’s good for Dell, and ultimately we’re driving more outcomes for the customers we serve. So you’ll see a lot of that AI in what we deliver from a product perspective, but definitely in how AI supports things like syndicated content, quoting and buying, and all of the programmatic platform upon which our partnerships are built. Robert Dutt: My last question – you touched on 25 or more years in this industry, through the EMC years, through the Dell-EMC merger, and now we’re into the AI chapter. For a partner who’s navigating all of this right now – the infrastructure shifts, the AI opportunity, the evolution of the program – what’s your read on the best opportunity over the next 12 months? Where would you be pointing partners in terms of where to focus? Eric Arcese: Well, if you’re a partner thinking about which relationships you’re going to invest in – with Dell, you have a leader in commercial PCs, a leader in storage, a leader in services. You have the industry heavyweight in infrastructure. And not only that – in a world where we’re seeing some very complicated supply chain dynamics globally, you have the world’s best supply chain supporting you. You have a proven leader that’s committed to partnering in all that we do. And you have tremendous people in Canada there to support you each and every day. So I always think of it this way: if you’re building a business, who are those partnerships you want to create? You want one hand to shake that’s accountable to you, that’s invested in you, that’s committed to you – so that you can deliver on what you’ve promised your customer. With Dell, you have that. And we’re really proud of where we are in the market. This AI moment that we’ve all been afforded is going to create tremendous opportunity – and I couldn’t be more excited about it. Not just for the partner businesses we support, but for the outcomes and problem statements that we’re going to be able to address that we haven’t even fathomed yet. Transformative outcomes across every industry we serve, both public and private. So I’m really excited, Robert. And if I’m a partner, those are the types of things I’m thinking about and why working with Dell is a great bet. And hopefully we’ll all be making that bet in Vegas in May at Dell Technologies World – because that’s what you do in Vegas. You make bets. But it’s an easy one to make with Dell Technologies every day. Robert Dutt: Great point to leave it on. I look forward to catching up at Dell Technologies World and hearing more of the story there. Eric, thanks so much. Eric Arcese: Thanks so much, Robert. I really enjoyed our time together. Much appreciated. There you have it – Eric Arcese from Dell Technologies. I’d like to thank Eric for his time, and of course, thank you for listening today. If I had to pull three things out of the conversation for the Canadian partner to sit with, here’s what I’m thinking. First – the AI Factory framing. Eric described looking at the AI Factory topology slide and seeing the gaps, the seams between the components, as the partner opportunity. The hardware is Dell’s story. The services layer, the data work, the integration, the outcomes – that’s where partners play. If you’re trying to figure out what the AI infrastructure wave actually means to your practice, that’s a useful lens. Second – the VxRail transition. If you’ve built a practice around VxRail, Dell’s message is: the path forward is clear. The hypervisor choice you’ve made is preserved. The economics of the new platform make sense, and there are meaningful incentives to help you build out a Dell Private Cloud practice. The transition is underway and getting ahead of it matters. Third – the AI PC refresh is a security story as much as a productivity story. There are still around 500 million PCs running Windows 10, many of them three to five years old, sitting at the edge of the network while AI is making the threat landscape more sophisticated. For MSPs already in the endpoint security conversation with their customers, that’s a more powerful entry point than “it’s a faster laptop.” And of course – Dell Technologies World, May 18th to 21st in Las Vegas. The Global Partner Summit is the anchor event for partners, and based on what Eric was hinting at around the integrated partner experience and changes to quoting and deal registration, it’s worth watching closely whether you’re going or not. If you found this useful, follow or subscribe to the In The Channel podcast wherever you get your podcasts – we’re on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and most major directories. A rating or review is always appreciated if you’ve got a minute – it genuinely helps. Until next time, I’m Robert Dutt for ChannelBuzz.ca, and I’ll see you in the channel.

On this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast – Interview Series, I am joined by Dell Technologies' Bill Leslie, Director, Technical Marketing for an inside look at the performance of Dell's VxRail solution, including use cases, and the findings of our recent performance testing on Dell's VxRail hyper converged infrastructure (HCI). Our discussion covers: Dell's relationship with VMware and the state of the HCI business An overview of Dell's VxRail 8.0, vSAN 8.0 and new vSAN Express Storage Architecture The Futurum Group's performance testing results why those results matter in business terms as well What our performance test findings mean for use cases and the expansion for high performance workloads Take a look at our findings here. 

Dell Technologies is introducing new infrastructure solutions, co-engineered with VMware, that deliver greater automation and performance for organizations embracing multicloud and edge strategies. “Customers tell us they want help simplifying their multicloud and edge strategies as they look to drive more efficiency and performance from their IT,” said Jeff Boudreau, president, of Dell Technologies Infrastructure Solutions Group. “Dell Technologies and VMware have numerous joint engineering initiatives spanning core IT areas such as multicloud, edge and security to help our customers more easily manage and gain value from their data.” Business data and applications continue to grow in multicloud environments comprised of edge locations, public clouds and on-premises IT. Many organizations have already adopted a multicloud approach, and the number of applications running at the edge will grow 800% by 2024. “IDC's global research shows many organizations are struggling to balance the rapidly rising complexity and cost of data centre, edge and cloud operations with relentless business demand for better data integration, security and application performance,” notes Mary Johnston Turner, IDC research vice president, future of digital infrastructure agenda. “These organizations recognize the need for a consistent operating model tightly integrated with infrastructure platforms that support sophisticated, large scale data-driven workloads.” Dell VxRail delivers greater performance and smallest-ever systems at the edge Dell is introducing several new VxRail systems and software advancements that improve performance on-premises and at the edge including the industry's only jointly engineered HCI-based DPU solution with VMware. Improved system performance: A result of co-engineering with VMware and its Project Monterey initiative, VxRail systems support new VMware vSphere 8 software that has been rearchitected to run on DPUs. Customers can improve application and networking infrastructure performance and improve TCO by moving these services from a system's CPU to its new onboard DPU. Support demanding workloads: Select VxRail systems now support VMware's new vSAN Enterprise Storage Architecture (ESA). With up to 4x vSAN performance improvement, customers can better support demanding mission-critical applications. Smallest edge systems: VxRail rugged modular nodes deliver high performance and scalability in the system's smallest form factor to date. Modular nodes are ideal for edge use cases including healthcare, energy and utilities and digital cities because of VxRail's industry-first, on-board hardware witness, which allows for deployment in high latency, low bandwidth locations. “The increasing demand for software-defined infrastructure services for networking, storage and security places more demands on already-strained CPUs. As more distributed, resource-intensive applications are onboarded, there is a need to reimagine data centre architecture to fully support the requirements of these applications,” said Krish Prasad, senior vice president & general manager, Cloud Infrastructure Business Group, VMware. “Dell VxRail with VMware vSphere 8 will deliver a foundation for next-generation data centre architecture by running infrastructure services on the DPU. This will enable greater network and application performance and a new level of sophistication in adopting Zero Trust security strategies to protect modern enterprise workloads.” Dell APEX expands multicloud and edge support for VMware environments Dell is adding several offers to its APEX portfolio for VMware workloads that speed development of cloud-native apps and better allocate compute and storage resources for applications at the edge. APEX Cloud Services with VMware Cloud adds managed VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid services, which allows IT teams to help developers move faster by using a container-based approach to application development. With Dell-managed Tanzu servic...

The name on the wrapper may have changed, but the content remains the same and in fact is expanding to address more great offerings and values from the Dell Infrastructure Solutions Group. Tune in, as Sara and Mick break down why this is happening and what it means for listeners.

With Transparent Snapshots, Dell PowerProtect Data Manager delivers simple and fast VM backups at scale with near-zero impact. But, VMware multi-cloud environments need protection beyond the workload. With Data Manager, Dell also delivers VMware validated designs to protect the VCF stack itself. For a complete Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) solution, Data Manager protects the platform management components of VCF on Dell VxRail. Listen to this podcast to learn how Data Manager is a solution for protecting VCF and modern workloads, including Tanzu Kubernetes – on any hardware provider.

Mick talks to Shannon Champion, VP of Primary Storage & HCI Marketing about the newest announcements from Dell Tech World across the portfolio of storage products. Covering security, automated operations, Multi-cloud and much more, its one of the most comprehensive updates in the history of Dell Storage.

The future of storage is here at Dell Technologies with powerful, efficient, and intelligent enterprise arrays. Hear from subject matter experts on the Dell Technologies advantage and how it can accelerate your transformations with multi-dimensional data storage, protection, and much more!

In this session, product marketing manager Kathleen Cintorrino fills us in on everything VxRail Tanzu including what it is, use cases and when to use it, and deployment

New podcast host, Donna Brasure, and VMware Strategic Partner lead, Dani Coady, discuss Dell's presence at VMworld and the new joint announcements from Dell Technologies and VMware.

Tech Field day is a forum for IT practitioners and experts to drill into technology offerings from tech vendors. Shannon Champion discusses the sessions and key takeaways from a recent Dell hosted day where we showcased our storage and HCI offerings.

Mick talks to Justin Jones about the "hot off the presses" VxRail launch. Hear how VxRail's new release is re-imagining agility, transformation and simplicity for Dell customers.

What is HCI and why does it matter? Jeremy Merrill discussed the benefits of HCI to customers and how VxRail accelerates deployments.

Solutions to support technology, Video Conferencing, security, and more. Today's interview is with Chris Monfet & Carlo Costanzo.

In this episode, Mo Eisen, Chief Technical Officer of Teknicor, a Dell Partner in the Cloud Service Provider Program, begins by describing MEDITECH, its products and position in the healthcare industry. Mo explains MEDITECH customers’ leading challenges, why they are exploring alternatives to traditional implementations and the benefits to a multi-cloud deployment. Mo then discusses how Dell’s VXRail solution addresses MEDITECH customers’ challenges, and the partnership between Teknicor and Dell that achieved MEDITECH certification for VXRail. Mo concludes by sharing how Dell and Teknicor work together to address broader customer challenges, a customer success story, where to find more info, and final thoughts.

In this episode, Mayuresh Gogate, Storage Solutions Architect for Dell Technologies' Design Solutions Group, begins with descriptions of additional VxRail use cases at the rugged edge. Mayuresh discusses other industries that could benefit from VxRail. He then describes the PowerScale file solution and advises on getting started with the VxRail D Series. Mayuresh concludes with where to find more information and final thoughts.

In this episode, Mayuresh Gogate, Storage Solutions Architect for Dell Technologies' Design Solutions Group, begins with his definition of the Edge and describes what's unique about the type of edge environments he is working with. Mayuresh discusses the unique requirements of the groups employing these rugged edge resources. He then explains how Dell Technologies' VxRail D Series supports teams in these unique environments and concludes with a broader description of VxRail.

What’s the secret ingredient behind the explosive growth of the craft beer industry? Data. Hit the road with New Belgium Brewing’s “Beer Rangers” and discover how they’re leveraging business insights to reach their thirsty customers.For more information on Dell EMC VxRail, the only jointly engineered hyper-converged infrastructure system built with VMware, that delivers an optimized operational experience for IT transformation, go to our blog. 

Topics: - Civil Air Patrol - Chrome password manager - @troyhunt - iPhone just got features Android has had for 7 years - Top 500 Supercomputer update - HPC & ARM procs - AI/ML converging with HPC - Global Command & Control System - PCF on VxRail - https://kesselrun.af.mil/ - NASA sending a helicopter to Mars

Deploying and managing Kubernetes infrastructure may be the most challenging aspect of developing and delivering cloud-native applications. We will discuss leveraging a purpose-built appliance that provides a production-ready Kubernetes platform that also supports existing VMware virtualized applications in hybrid (private and public cloud) deployments. This approach provides rapid results to quickly stand up the environment as well as automated Lifecycle Management of the entire stack to enable organizations to securely and non-disruptively stay up-to-date and secure with their Kubernetes and vSphere clusters. We will discuss what is available today from Dell Technologies Cloud with PKS on VCF on VxRail as well as the roadmap forward for next year and beyond with Project Pacific and Tanzu Mission control.

In a two part series, we take a look at VMworld 2019, some of the announcements, and the community around the convention.This episode features return guests to the show with some hot takes around recent announcements, acquisitions, and products.Do you have an idea or a topic for the show? Would you like to be a guest on the ExploreVM podcast? Or just keep up the conversation about VMworld 2019? If so, please contact me on Twitter, Email, LinkedIn, Instagram, or Facebook

In a two part series, we take a look at VMworld 2019, some of the announcements, and the community around the convention.This episode features return guests to the show with some hot takes around recent announcements, acquisitions, and products.Do you have an idea or a topic for the show? Would you like to be a guest on the ExploreVM podcast? Or just keep up the conversation about VMworld 2019? If so, please contact me on Twitter, Email, LinkedIn, Instagram, or Facebook

VMware Cloud on AWS has proven that IT infrastructure with VMware SDDC stack atop can be ordered as a cloud service; in a scalable, smooth and agile manner. But what about the scenarios where you need to have that compute power on-premises? Enter VMware Cloud on Dell EMC! On the 21st episode of Virtual Stack Podcast, Adam Bohle (Lead Cloud Specialist Systems Engineer at VMware) and I discuss about VMware Cloud on Dell EMC, which has just been announced at Dell Technologies World in March. This is an Edge-as-a-Service solution, which will bring VMware SDDC stack on top of Dell EMC’s VxRail hyper-converged infrastructure as a cloud service. You can reach out to Adam via Twitter and LinkedIn. Virtual Stack is available on all major apps: Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcast, Stitcher and more. Hope you enjoy the show. Feel free to share your feedback via Twitter (@emregirici), LinkedIn or virtualstack.tech. Show Notes: 02:00 - Intro 04:30 - What is VMC on Dell EMC and what has been announced at DT World in March? 07:30 - What are the main use cases and which industries does this solution fit better? 14:00 - Main differentiators of VMware Cloud on Dell EMC in this competitive market. 16:45 - Edge Computing, Device Edge and Cloud Edge. 20:30 - Software, hardware and service components of the solution 24:00 - Security and data privacy aspects of this solution. 26:00 - Participating in Beta, delivery timelines of the solution 30:00 - Are there any plans to create a platform to manage Edge, Cloud and Private Cloud workloads from the same interface? 33:10 - What’s VMC on AWS Outposts? How’s it related to the VMC on DellEMC? 36:15 - Closing notes, contact information Links: Announcing VMware Cloud on Dell EMC (VMware Blogs) VMware Cloud Portal Product Page and Beta registration form

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages!It's the moment you've all been waiting for!Season 3 of the ExploreVM Podcast starts now!Hello, and welcome to the ExploreVM Podcast. I am your host, Paul Woodward Jr. Today we kick off not only 2019, but season 3 of the podcast as well. But before we do, I want to say thank you to my listeners.In 2018, the ExploreVM podcast received more than a 50% increase in downloads than 2017, and ExploreVM.com saw a greater than 300% increase in hits.Its always great when someone messages me or approaches me at an event and says how much they enjoy the show. I appreciate everyone's continued support, and look forward to providing quality content that I hope you all enjoy. As for season 3, we are going to dive head first into the Hyperconverged Series that I discussed at the end of last season. The goal for this series is to help build an understanding of hyperconverged infrastructure, it's place in the datacenter world, and spotlight the various ways that vendors are deploying HCI. Now, we are going to approach this series a bit differently as I've reached out to the vendors directly to appear on the show versus the usual community members that I have on as guests. That being said, this is NOT a sponsored series. I am not receiving any sort of compensation for these appearances.And all vendors appearing have had a strict set of rules laid out for their appearance. 1) No Bashing other HCI Vendors2) Keep it technical, this is a technical podcast3) This is NOT a free commercial for your product4) No bashing other HCI VendorsAlright, with the ground rules out of the way, let's begin. We start the HCI series discussing VxRail. And thank you for listening. I'd like to take a moment to thank those of you who voted for ExploreVM.com and the ExploreVM Podcast in the 2018 Top vBlog polls. With your help, we were named #10 Favorite Podcast, and #34 on the favorite independent blogger list. I am honored and humbled to be listed among so many great contributors in our community. Thank you for your support. Let's see if we can climb higher for 2019! If you'd like to be a guest on the ExploreVM podcast, have a show idea for a future episode, or continue the conversation on today's topics, please contact me at paul@explorevm.com, facebook.comexplorevm, or @ExploreVM on Twitter.Once again, thank you for listeningBlog: www.ExploreVM.comTwitter: https://twitter.com/ExploreVMInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/explorevm/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-woodward-jrFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ExploreVM/

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages!It's the moment you've all been waiting for!Season 3 of the ExploreVM Podcast starts now!Hello, and welcome to the ExploreVM Podcast. I am your host, Paul Woodward Jr. Today we kick off not only 2019, but season 3 of the podcast as well. But before we do, I want to say thank you to my listeners.In 2018, the ExploreVM podcast received more than a 50% increase in downloads than 2017, and ExploreVM.com saw a greater than 300% increase in hits.Its always great when someone messages me or approaches me at an event and says how much they enjoy the show. I appreciate everyone's continued support, and look forward to providing quality content that I hope you all enjoy. As for season 3, we are going to dive head first into the Hyperconverged Series that I discussed at the end of last season. The goal for this series is to help build an understanding of hyperconverged infrastructure, it's place in the datacenter world, and spotlight the various ways that vendors are deploying HCI. Now, we are going to approach this series a bit differently as I've reached out to the vendors directly to appear on the show versus the usual community members that I have on as guests. That being said, this is NOT a sponsored series. I am not receiving any sort of compensation for these appearances.And all vendors appearing have had a strict set of rules laid out for their appearance. 1) No Bashing other HCI Vendors2) Keep it technical, this is a technical podcast3) This is NOT a free commercial for your product4) No bashing other HCI VendorsAlright, with the ground rules out of the way, let's begin. We start the HCI series discussing VxRail. And thank you for listening. I'd like to take a moment to thank those of you who voted for ExploreVM.com and the ExploreVM Podcast in the 2018 Top vBlog polls. With your help, we were named #10 Favorite Podcast, and #34 on the favorite independent blogger list. I am honored and humbled to be listed among so many great contributors in our community. Thank you for your support. Let's see if we can climb higher for 2019! If you'd like to be a guest on the ExploreVM podcast, have a show idea for a future episode, or continue the conversation on today's topics, please contact me at paul@explorevm.com, facebook.comexplorevm, or @ExploreVM on Twitter.Once again, thank you for listeningBlog: www.ExploreVM.comTwitter: https://twitter.com/ExploreVMInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/explorevm/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-woodward-jrFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ExploreVM/

TechCentral — In this promoted episode of the podcast, TechCentral talks to Ricky Pereira, Dell EMC brand manager at Pinnacle, about how companies are using hyperconverged infrastructure to solve their complex IT challenges. In the podcast, Pereira talks about Dell EMC’s VxRail appliance solution, which helps companies virtualise their IT infrastructure, in the process reducing complexity and making it easier to manage IT resources. Pereira explains the concept of a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) platform, and the benefits it offers to businesses trying to manage disparate legacy systems. As part of companies’ digital transformation journeys, he explains how VxRail can help them get ready for the era of cloud computing. The interview touches on the impact that HCI can have on businesses’ IT costs, while delving into how it can make disaster recovery much more effortless. Lastly, Pereira explains how Pinnacle works with Dell EMC and its channel partners to go to market with the solution.

For the first time, VMware Cloud Foundation is becoming available on Dell EMC’s market hyper-converged VxRail solution beginning in April. The new offering gives customers the industry’s first jointly engineered, hybrid cloud infrastructure stack integrated with VMware’s architecture.  read more

In this episode, we welcome special guest, Mike Orth (@HCIDiver) of Dell EMC. Barry and Mike discuss hyper-converged infrastructure and the new Dell EMC SmartFabric integration between VxRail and their switching portfolio. 

On this episode of the podcast we begin a series on hyperconverged infrastructure. We're going to start with a guest who's put a few products through the ringer to decide which HCI vendor worked best for them.To continue the conversation on hyperconverged infrastructure, or if you're an HCI vendor and would like to be a guest on the ExploreVM podcast, please reach me on Twitter, Email me: paul@Explorevm.com, or find me on Facebook. Once again, thank you for listening.Blog: www.ExploreVM.comTwitter: https://twitter.com/ExploreVMInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/explorevm/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-woodward-jr

On this episode of the podcast we begin a series on hyperconverged infrastructure. We're going to start with a guest who's put a few products through the ringer to decide which HCI vendor worked best for them.To continue the conversation on hyperconverged infrastructure, or if you're an HCI vendor and would like to be a guest on the ExploreVM podcast, please reach me on Twitter, Email me: paul@Explorevm.com, or find me on Facebook. Once again, thank you for listening.Blog: www.ExploreVM.comTwitter: https://twitter.com/ExploreVMInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/explorevm/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-woodward-jr

Seven technology leaders, all in one place. Dell, Dell EMC, Pivotal, RSA, SecureWorks, Virtustream and of course VMware.  With a line up like that its no wonder Dell Technologies is among Fortune's most admired companies. A few weeks back we had the opportunity to sit down with the founder and CEO of Dell Technologies Michael Dell to hear his thoughts on how digital transformation isn’t just the new normal. It’s the new mandatory. This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast we also welcome Aaron Buley to join the conversation. Aaron is a Global Director for VxRail and VxRack SDDC Product Technologists at Dell EMC. Links Mentioned Dell Technologies Digital Transformation VxRAIL Aaron's vlog The Virtually Speaking Podcast The Virtually Speaking Podcast is a weekly technical podcast dedicated to discussing VMware topics related to storage and availability. Each week Pete Flecha and John Nicholson bring in various subject matter experts from VMware and within the industry to discuss their respective areas of expertise. If you’re new to the Virtually Speaking Podcast check out all episodes on vSpeakingPodcast.com.

Dell EMC and VMware have expanded the industry’s broadest hyper-converged infrastructure portfolio to provide a turnkey rack-scale, hyper-converged system with VxRack SDDC. This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast we invite our friends from the VxRAIL team to walk us through this next generation SDDC with VMware Cloud Foundation (vSphere, NSX, vSAN and VMware SDDC Manager for end-to-end lifecycle management) Aaron Buley is the VxSEALs Global Director at Dell EMC Jason Marques is a Senior Consultant Engineer for VxRailVxRack SDDC Tech Marketing Phillip Armstrong is a Global VxRail & VxRack SDDC Specialist at Dell EMC Links Mentioned VxRack SDDC Data Sheet VxRack Landing Page Register for Dell Technologies World The Virtually Speaking Podcast The Virtually Speaking Podcast is a weekly technical podcast dedicated to discussing VMware topics related to storage and availability. Each week Pete Flecha and John Nicholson bring in various subject matter experts from VMware and within the industry to discuss their respective areas of expertise. If you’re new to the Virtually Speaking Podcast check out all episodes on vSpeakingPodcast.com.

Vic Camacho and Voung Pham deep dive into vSAN encryption using HyTrust KeyControl 0:00 Introductions 3:10 VSAN encryption introduction and terminologies 7:28 Overview of adding a KMS and initial setup 9:30 Difference between VSAN encryption and SED drives 13:30 Re-key, design, operational considerations 21:34 Use Cases (VM encryption vs VSAN encryption) 25:10 Day 2 considerations and KMS server availability 32:15 Learning resources 36:03 DEMO!! 53:50 wrap-up and one last thing: vxRAIL applicability

vSAN is the new offering from VMware that helps companies reduce costs, provide flexibility, and increase the speed of deploying architecture in the SDS space.  Listen in as WWT experts Brent Collins and James Weiser talk about the tradeoffs between server SAN and SDS, the benefits that vSAN offers, what organizational needs that vSAN addresses and how it relates to VxRail.

In Episode 5, we continue our Cloud Series, this time with Converged Platform Solutions. Paul Emhoff, Channel vArchitect with Dell EMC, provides an in-depth review of Dell EMC's Converged Platform Solutions.

For many IT organizations security is top of mind. VMware introduced advanced security for the modern data center with the release of vSphere 6.5, and are now extending security to vSAN with the industry’s first native HCI security solution, vSAN Encryption. So how does this differ from VM encryption in vSphere 6.5? This week Aaron Buley and Dave Morera bring the decryption key to help us better understand vSAN Encryption. Aaron Buley is a Global Director for VxRail and VxRackSDDC at DellEMC. In addition to kicking cancer’s tail, Aaron has been producing really great “Short Education Videos” (SEV Ops) with Tyler Gates and Russ Cantwell. You can find them on the SEV Ops YouTube channel. Follow Aaron on twitter @AaronBuley. Dave Morera is a VMware Solutions Architect focussing on vSAN. When he’s not sharing the goodness of vSAN you will probably catch him jamming on his drums and guitars while sipping home brewed beverages. Subscribe to his blog at www.greatwhitetec.com and follow him on twitter @GreatWhiteTec.Dave Morera is a VMware Solutions Architect focussing on vSAN. When he’s not sharing the goodness of vSAN you will probably catch him jamming on his drums and guitars while sipping home brewed beverages. Subscribe to his blog at www.greatwhitetec.com and follow him on twitter @GreatWhiteTec. Show Related Links Code Keepers: vSAN Encryption * vSAN Encryption Configuration VIDEO: Setting up vSAN Encryption vSAN Encryption vs VM Encryption Short Educational Videos (SEV Ops) Catch Dave Morera’s VMworld sessiona STO2652BU Conducting a Successful vSAN 6.x Proof of Concept STO2865QU HCIBench: Performance Benchmarking and More Catch Pete and John in the following VMworld sessions STO2446BU Virtual Volumes Technical Deep Dive STO3276GU vSAN Networking and Design Best Practices STO2047BU What’s New in vSAN 6.6: Technical Deep Dive STO2095BU vSAN ReadyNode and Build Your Own Hardware Guidance PAR4398BCU VMware Technical Solutions Professional – Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (VTSP-HCI, formerly VTSP-SDS) PAR4367BU What’s New in vSAN 6.6 – A Deep Dive STO1926BU vSAN 6.6: A Day in the Life of an I/O The Virtually Speaking Podcast The Virtually Speaking Podcast is a weekly technical podcast dedicated to discussing VMware topics related to storage and availability. Each week Pete Flecha and [John Ni...

Dell EMC World provided a great opportunity to showcase everything that is happening here at Dell Technologies. If you made it to the back of the solutions expo, you couldn’t miss the Virtual Converged Tour and “The Great Xcape Room”.   A hands-on escape room focused on the simplicity of deploying the Dell EMC VxRail platform. The Xscape Room was one of the biggest hits of the expo. The man behind the experience? None other than Colin Galagher (@WorldC3), Sr. Director, Hyper Converged Infrastructure Marketing. Don’t miss “Dell EMC The Source” app in the App Store.  Be sure to subscribe to Dell EMC The Source Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher Radio or Google Play and visit the official blog at thesourceblog.emc.com

Together with Vmware, the introduction of the VxRail appliance family back in February marked the first joint product announcement where EMC and VMware engineers have worked side by side developing, testing and validating a fully integrated hyper converged appliance. Add to that the addition of All-Flash Configuration in June combined with unprecedented customer demand, 6 months later #VxRailDelivers The VxRail appliance family offers massive scalability, simplified management, simplified IT and industry-leading data services that extend beyond the traditional appliance model including: deduplication, compression, replication, backup, and cloud tiering to public clouds, such as VMware vCloud Air, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Azure. I caught up with Colin Galagher (@WorldC3), Sr. Director, Hyper Converged Infrastructure Marketing at Vmworld 2016, shortly before the Dell EMC merger and creation of Dell Technologies. Don’t miss “Dell EMC The Source” app in the App Store.  Be sure to subscribe to Dell EMC The Source Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher Radio or Google Play and visit the official blog at thesourceblog.emc.com EMC: The Source Podcast is hosted by Sam Marraccini (@SamMarraccini)

During this episode, Matt and Dean discuss the Hyperconverged landscape and take a look at VxRail. We tackle some of the "FUD" that has been thrown around about VxRAIL and take a look at the simplicity of the platform.

Yesterday’s launch of VxRail represents a historic moment in EMC history. Together with VMware the introduction of the VCE VxRail appliance family marks the first joint product announcement, where EMC and VMware engineers have worked side by side developing, testing and validation a fully integrated hyper converged appliance. IT infrastructure is no longer just supporting the business; it is the business enabler. Infrastructure must support constant business demands for new applications and services with limited budgets and resources. Yet there is limited time to constantly evaluate and integrate hardware, software and networking solutions to meet continuously evolving requirements. Create an automated, dynamic infrastructure that adapts to your business demands with the VCE VxRail Appliance Family. The VxRail appliance family offers Massive scalability, Simplified management, Simplified IT and Industry-leading data services that extend beyond the traditional appliance model including: deduplication, compression, replication, backup, and cloud tiering to public clouds, such as VMware vCloud Air, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Azure.  The official launch replay can be found here, along with links to anything you need to know about the launch and VxRail. This week on EMC The Source Podcast I sat down with Colin Galagher (@WorldC3), Sr. Director, Hyper Converged infrastructure Marketing. We recorded immediately after the launch, to say he was fired up would be an understatement. Thanks for listening.    Don’t miss “EMC The Source” app in the App Store. Be sure to subscribe to The Source Podcast on iTunes or Stitcher Radio and visit the official blog at thesourceblog.emc.com  EMC: The Source Podcast is hosted By Sam Marraccini (@SamMarraccini)