Topic: Hardware - Page 116

The new PDU and UPS offerings are built for use in network closets, data centers, retail applications, and commercial environments on top of Legrand’s network connectivity, physical infrastructure, cable management, and thermal management products.

More than 6,000 agents, MSPs, VARs, consultants, integrators, service providers gather for three days of education and networking in Las Vegas.

Validated designs for Google’s Anthos hybrid cloud platform and new support for Google Kubernetes Engine in HPE’s pay-as-you-go GreenLake infrastructure offering seek to make “build once, run anywhere” app development and management easier.

Named Anthos, the new offering is designed to make embracing hybrid cloud computing easier by enabling organizations to run containerized applications without modification both on premises and in the public cloud.

The new pact lets businesses buy Nutanix hyperconverged infrastructure solutions on an as-a-service basis via HPE’s GreenLake service or on a traditional capital expenditure basis via pre-configured appliances built with HPE hardware.

Cloud developers will soon have access to consolidated support, billing, and management of solutions from MongoDB, Redis Labs, Elastic, DataStax, Neo4j, InfluxData, and Confluent within the GCP console, right alongside Google’s own tools.

Called Cloud Optix, the new system is designed to help organizations identify and protect workloads in public cloud computing environments, and keep them in compliance with internal and external policies.

Utilizing the same threat intelligence engine the vendor’s own security products draw on, the new offering gives end users and partners real-time insights on malicious URLs, advanced persistent threats, and other risks based on input from over 500 million users.

Together, the two systems now combine asset lifecycle optimization, workflow automation, and advanced service management functionality in a single cloud-optimized platform.

The onetime printer/copier vendor is eight years into a journey toward delivering comprehensive technology services, with its legacy print dealers along for the ride. Will IT-oriented channel pros be invited to participate as well?