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7 Musts to Drive Your Disaster Recovery Strategy
Developing an effective strategy to address myriad security threats takes time, personnel and a significant monetary investment. But compared to the potential loss of customers, reputation and revenue, these expenditures are paltry. Here are seven steps Accenture says you can take to help you and your customers develop a holistic strategy.
Technology Resellers Get Credit Help from Fujitsu, GE Capital
Fujitsu America and GE Capital are partnering to offer 60-day payment terms to technology resellers who source select Fujitsu America products through technology distributors D&H, Tech Data and Synnex. The offer is one of several special credit and finance offers extended by vendors and distribution companies in cooperation with third-party financing firms to help jump-start technology spending as traditional sources of credit have dried up.
Who Says Silicon Valley's the Startup Hub?
Sometimes it's good to go home -- to the Midwest. That's exactly what the execs behind this storage startup did and it's paying dividends in a down economy.
Adaptec Unveils Series 5Z RAID Controllers
Series 5Z is an integrated solid state solution that is designed to significantly reduce annual data center operating costs and environmental impacts.
Oracle Earnings Boost Some Spirits -- Cautiously
Database giant posts better-than-expected fourth quarter earnings, though both sales and profits were down.
Seagate Extends BlackArmor Storage Solutions for SMBs
Executives say features like automated full-system backup and SafetyDrill+ software, a bare metal recovery feature, give the storage solutions enhanced data protection.
Dell Launches New EqualLogic Storage Solutions for SMBs
The entry-level storage arrays, servers and professional services are aimed at helping channel partners simplify sales, deployment and management, and gain market share over rivals HP and IBM.
EMC Jumps into Professional, Managed Services
EMC launches EMC Global Services, which offers consulting, implementatin, education and managed services. The new division will sell through and with partners on contract fulfillment.
Resellers to Get Economic Stimulus Package Grant Funding Help
Help is on the way for solution providers and resellers looking to tap into grant funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act -- the Obama administration's economic stimulus package. Ingram Micro has expanded its partnership with The Grants Office to generate leads for solution providers and coach them through the grant submission process.
Storage Vendor Data Domain Chooses NetApp, Rejects EMC
Specialty storage equipment maker, Data Domain has rejected a hostile takeover bid by EMC and chosen instead a deal to be acquired by NetApp for $30 per share.
Asigra Launches New Cloud-Based Backup Services
Asigra, an online storage and data backup service, launched Asigra Hybrid Cloud Backup and Recovery platform, which allows users to backup data in public or private cloud or a hybrid of both models.
NetApp Polishes Up its Partner Program
The storage company unveils a new program name, a revised field portal and its efforts to diversify its partner base to address cloud computing and data center convergence.
EMC's Tucci Takes His Case to Data Domain Employees
In an open letter, EMC's chief executive takes the hard-sell approach to convince employees that his company is better-suited to buy the deduplication vendor than rival NetApp.
Storage Software Market and Most Sub-Markets Decline: IDC
The slowdown in software is a direct result of stalled storage hardware sales, as customers look to wring as much from existing infrastructure as possible.
Bell Micro Teams with Teneros for SAAS-Based Disaster Recovery Solution
Capitalizing on increased solution provider demand for cost-effective, easy-to-deploy disaster recovery solutions, Bell Micro and Teneros will offer a SAAS-based solution aimed at helping partners boost profitability and ensure customers’ data security.
Making the Most of Storage Demand
In this Changing Channels podcast hosted by Mike Vizard, the senior vice president of marketing for Nexsan Technologies, Robert Woolery, talks about how solution providers can profit from rising demand for storage solutions even in these lean economic times.
EMC Presses Forward with Hostile Bid for Data Domain
Data Domain's board of directors has accepted NetApp's counterproposal of $1.9 billion cash and stock offer to buy the deduplication company. EMC, however, says it's all-cash $1.8 billion bid is a better deal for shareholders and will press its case for a hostile takeover.
Battle for Data Domain: Two Weeks in the Making, Months to Go
NEWS ANALYSIS: NetApp CEO Dan Warmenhoven said it took less than two weeks to negotiate the original deal to acquire deduplication vendor Data Domain. Now that EMC has disrupted the proceedings, it will likely take months for a final deal to emerge.
NetApp Ups the Ante in Battle for Data Domain
Claiming the union better for the industry than one with EMC, NetApp raises its offering bid to $1.9 billion in the battle to acquire the deduplication player.
EMC Makes Surprise Bid for Data Domain
EMC could short-circuit NetApp’s plans to acquire Data Domain with a tempting all-cash offer of $1.8 billion and plans to combine deduplication technologies. >> Read More From Our Storage News Archive
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