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Coronavirus Forces Facebook To Delay Data Center Construction Projects
by Mark Haranas
After spending a whopping $16 billion on hyperscale data center capex in 2019, Facebook is halting construction on two data center projects due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Pivot3 Layoffs Confirmed As Coronavirus Forces ‘Structural Changes’
by Mark Haranas
‘We’re seeing our customers’ timelines slip and decisions get suspended as everyone evaluates the impact of this slowdown on their own businesses,’ says Pivot3’s CMO Bruce Milne.
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Dell Technologies World 2020 Rescheduled To This Fall
by Mark Haranas
'It’s clear to us that we need to stay focused on supporting our customers and partners with their most immediate needs,' the company said Friday in announcing the rescheduling of Dell Technologies World.
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IDC: Storage And Server Sales Will Fall In 2020 Because Of Coronavirus
by Mark Haranas
IDC predicts worldwide external enterprise storage revenue will drop 5.5 percent year over year in 2020, while server sales will decline 3.4 percent due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Coronavirus ‘Uncertainty’: Dell, VMware Pull Financial Guidance
by Mark Haranas
Dell Technologies initially provided full fiscal year revenue guidance of between roughly $92 billion and $95 billion, while VMware expected to generate sales of more than $12 billion for its fiscal year. Coronavirus has forced both companies to pull those figures.
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CEO Antonio Neri: ‘Proud’ HPE Technology And Teams Are ‘Being Called In To Help’ Battle Coronavirus
by Steven Burke
‘From enabling medical clinics to supporting telework and remote education to powering scientific research, we are focused on delivering for customers in bold new ways in these trying circumstances,’ says HPE CEO Antonio Neri.
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Lenovo CEO Yuanqing Yang: We Are ‘Prioritizing’ Customers On Coronavirus Front Line
by Joseph F. Kovar
Lenovo's people have been creative in coming up with ways to serve customers despite factory shutdowns and supply chain disruptions, with local teams making decisions that bring both products and support to clients worldwide, Yang wrote.
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Dell Donates Millions To Fight Coronavirus: ‘We Are All In This Together’
by Mark Haranas
Dell Technologies is donating at least $4 million to fund front-line organizations who are fighting the coronavirus pandemic as well as to hospitals in China.
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Michael Dell On Coronavirus: ‘Customers And Partners Need Us More Than Ever’
by Mark Haranas
“Our supply chain is in relatively good shape, particularly in notebooks where we think that’s certainly a place where we’re seeing demand shortages because of the work from home strategy,” said Dell CEO Michael Dell in an interview with CRN.
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Michael Dell On Virtual Dell Technologies World: ‘The Show Must Go On’
by Mark Haranas
‘What we do know from internal events that we move from physical to virtual – and we’ve learned a lot about that just in the last few weeks – we’ll make it incredibly compelling and engaging,’ says Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell in an interview with CRN.
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IDC IT Spending Forecast Cut Due To Coronavirus; No Slowdown For Partners Yet
by Mark Haranas
‘I’ve got some customers asking for relatively large server orders because they’re concerned that six months from now, the stock might not be there. So it’s almost like customers are looking for some commodity IT items like the rest of us are doing for toilet paper,’ says Rick Gouin, CTO for Winslow Technology Group.
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Dell Employee Tests Positive For Coronavirus After Visiting HQ
by Mark Haranas
Dell Technologies confirms to CRN that one of its employees has tested positive for the coronavirus and is asking some employees to work from home.
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Nutanix Stock Price Falls 57% In A Month; Partners, Leaders Unfazed
by Mark Haranas
‘I actually bought more [Nutanix] stock since it’s been down because as a partner, I know what’s going on at the company on the customer side,’ says Tim Joyce, president and CEO of Roundstone Solutions.
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Vertiv Will Take $80 Million Sales Hit Due To Coronavirus
by Mark Haranas
Vertiv said the coronavirus will ‘negatively impact’ its first quarter 2020 sales by approximately $80 million due to shipment and supply chain ‘disruptions.’
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