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Top newsmaker #5: Shaun Maine, CEO of Converge Technology Solutions
The numbers suggest acquisitions are more likely than not to be expensive mistakes, but in the past two years, Toronto’s Converge Technology Solutions has played the acquisition game across North America with such surgical precision that it’s suddenly...
Toronto acquisition firm plays big part in IBM’s hybrid IT strategy
By Alex Coop IBM Corp. is leaning heavily on an acquisition firm from Toronto to help it build a network of hybrid cloud solution providers focused on its technologies. Converge Technology Partners, IBM’s third largest partner – and quickly on its way to becoming the...
Pure Storage Pushes All-flash Performance With NVMe-oF RoCE, Intros Flash Storage For Cloud Backups
By Joseph F. Kovar The two new offerings--DirectFlash Fabric to replace legacy iSCSI connectivity with RDMA over converged Ethernet, and ObjectEngine for flash storage-based data protection to the cloud, are aimed at accelerating existing and new workloads. All-flash...