Friday's Five: A Handful of Tech Headlines You May Have Missed, June 10
As we head into the weekend there’s that nagging feeling that you may have missed something. You’re busy, and it’s hard to keep up with every piece of news that is important to your business. This weekly column aims to wrap up the news we didn’t get to this week (in no particular order), and that may have slipped under your radar, too. If you’ve got something to add, please chime in below in the comments section or on social media. We want to hear from you.
Analysis: The Computing Landscape According to Lenovo
The WHIR’s colleagues at Windows Supersite were at LenovoWorld this week and broke down the biggest trends that will impact how we work in the very near future.
SolarWinds CEO Explains Acquisition of LOGICnow
SolarWinds CEO talked to MSPmentor about last week’s merger between SolarWinds N-able and LOGICnow, which creates a services management vendor with more channel partners than all of their top competitors, combined.
SolidFire’s Mark Conley Opens Up About the NetApp Acquisition and What It Says About the Channel
NetApp’s December 2015 acquisition of SolidFire is still fresh, and the two companies are still figuring out how to best leverage each other’s assets and resources. The VAR Guy breaks the deal down.
And from HPE Discover 2016:
HPE Strengthens Its IoT Play with New Hardware and Software
According to our colleagues at Windows IT Pro, who were at HPE Discover 2016 this week, “the Edgeline EL1000 and Edgeline EL4000 are designed to integrate data capture, control, compute, and storage to deliver analytics processing for near real-time machine learning.”
HPE CEO Meg Whitman Teases “The Machine”
During the day 2 keynote for HPE Discovery 2016, Meg Whitman found a way to excite the crowd about something that will alter the computing landscape but doesn’t quite exist yet.
Source: TheWHIR