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Storage Virtualization, Data Recovery and Storage Backup, SAN and NAS StorageChannel Insider offers the latest storage news and information about data center infrastructure improvements including storage virtualization, data recovery, data backup, SANs, NAS, clustering, systems management, cloud computing and green data center efforts, all with editorial commentary and reviews you can trust, tailored for SMB and VARs.
Data Dedupe Heats Up with Acquisitions Such as Data Domain and Kadena
EMC is trumpeting five years of 35,000 percent growth for its data dedupe acquisition, Data Domain, but there's still room for smaller companies like CommVault and Arkeia, which just acquired Kadena Systems.
Symantec Reveals 2010 Channel Plan at Partner Engage Conference
Security and storage solution providers headed to Symantec's partner event this week got sneak peeks of the company's channel plans for 2010, including the new SymDemo demo platform that lets partners show off product capabilities without the hassles of worrying about hardware, software licensing and logistics.
Storage Fusion Drives Professional Services
Seeking to recruit more U.S. partners, Storage Fusion is rolling out a SaaS-based storage analysis service that helps customers recover 10-15 percent of their storage assets and drives partners' professional services sales.
Vendors Enhance the Case for Solid State Disks
Texas Memory Systems has set new SPC-1 records for flash storage performance and value, and Dataram Corp. has released a tech alert outlining the business benefits of solid-state storage appliances.
Backup and Recovery Vendor Asigra Offers New Channel Program
Asigra has primarily built up its reputation and its base within segments of the service provider market that use the company's software as a platform to build out and offer unique cloud-based backup and recovery managed services.
LSI Says End-to-End 6Gb/s SAS a Reality
LSI has partnered with SuperMicro and Seagate to demonstrate to the channel that end-to-end 6Gb/s SAS solutions are real and available now, and even better, they deliver better-than-expected performance.
New Data Center Infrastructure Approaches
Many organizations are doing all they can to reduce the number of small or remote data centers that need to be supported. However, in some cases these cannot be consolidated into larger data centers or centralized data centers. So how can you reduce the costs of these satellite facilities? One of the key ways to do this is to move from unique and proprietary data center physical infrastructure to standardized products. This approach provides key benefits that will save you money.
Oracle's Ellison Talks Up Sun Acquisition
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison says that Oracle will create specialized computing devices using Oracle's software and Sun Microsystems hardware. These new specialized computers and storage devices will provide better performance than ones that use hardware and software from other companies, according to Oracle's leader.
Avnet Teams with Scale Targeting Small Business End of Data Storage Market
Data storage startup Scale Computing is teaming up with distributor Avnet to go after the small business end of the data storage market.
Warmenhoven's New Role: Channel Ambassador
The former NetApp CEO is now working as a channel evangelist, convincing integrators, carriers and services companies to standardize their offerings on his company's technology. His role and mission could be a harbinger for the hardware industry.
Cisco, IBM, HP and Dell Named as Possible Brocade Suitors
Brocade's (NASDAQ:BRCD) OEM sales strategy has created partnerships with the big names in the technology server space, including Dell, HP and IBM. But if any one of these vendors acquires Brocade, what will that do to the existing OEM relationships with the others?
Brocade Reportedly Putting Self Up for Sale
Oracle and HP are rumored to be potential suitors, though no deal is imminent to buy the maker of routers and switches for blade servers, as well as software to help companies manage data networks.
VMware Updates Disaster Recovery Software for Virtualization
VMware releases vCenter Site Recovery Manager 4, which adds support for VMware vSphere 4 and Network File System (NFS)-based storage replication to the virtualization vendor's disaster recovery solution. VMware says disaster recovery can help reseller channel partners with add-on sales.
Storage Specialist Xiotech Snags $10 Million in Financing
The cash will help the company build out its vision for storage architectures that allow enterprises to increase storage capacity and management functionality in an open infrastructure that doesn’t require a commitment to a single closed storage system.
Storage Vendor NetApp Intros FAS2040, Drops Price on FAS2020
IT storage vendor NetApp made the changes to its FAS2000 product line in direct response to requests from its reseller channel partners. The product changes coincide with improvements to NetApp's channel partner program.
Dramatic Changes Come to NetApp's FAS Line
NetApp says performance increases in the product will make it ideal for handling workloads in Microsoft Windows consolidation and virtualized environments.
Intel Reshuffles Management, Loses Gelsinger to EMC
Intel announced a reorganization of its major project divisions and executives and at the same time announced that longtime Intel veteran Pat Gelsinger, the company's first CTO and the architect of the chipmaker's Intel Developers' Forum (IDF) would leave after 29 years to move over to storage giant EMC.
Acquiring Dominance: EMC`s Rise to Power
IT storage and infrastructure giant EMC wasn’t always so big. Here’s a quick look at how the industry juggernaut, which reported revenues of $14.9 billion in 2008, rose to power.
EMC Tops Storage Software Market
Even as the storage software market slipped by 9.8 percent year over year in the second quarter, EMC retained its market share lead, followed by Symantec. How did your vendor stack up?
Cloud Storage Comes of Age
While cloud storage computing has been considered leading-edge and not ready for widespread deployment in enterprises yet, managed hosting service provider Carpathia's CTO says he believes the service will come into its own in 2010 and enjoy acceptance by enterprises. >> Read More From Our Storage News Archive
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