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    Storage Virtualization, Data Recovery and Storage Backup, SAN and NAS Storage

    Channel 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.
    CA Channel Exec Wants Partners Back From Symantec
    Adam Famularo didn’t mince words in a recent interview with Channel Insider when he discussed the renewed momentum he’s seeing around the company’s back-up and recovery products and just how badly he wants partners who defected from CA several years ago back in the fold.
    EMC Adds Desktop, Laptop and Virtualization Support to Avamar Deduplication Technology
    Storage and security giant EMC has updated its deduplication software Avamar to now support laptops and desktops. Plus, Avamar Version 5.0 exploits the APIs available in VMware's new vSphere 4 architecture to leverage the full deduplication capabilities within virtualized storage.
    Quantum Offers Differentiated Tape Solution
    The key benefits of the new tape libraries include more capacity, better scalability and easier management, reducing by half the amount of time users have to spend managing and maintaining the systems.
    3X Marries Local, Cloud SMB Backup
    On Tuesday 3X Systems will launch its second-generation solution that combines the best of both local and cloud environments with an automatic offsite backup that is simple, secure, fast and inexpensive.
    Is Server Hassle Pushing IT to the Cloud?
    There is a lot driving the cloud, including the hassle of managing servers. A recent survey of 441 IT professionals revealed that the majority of businesses would “love to never have to buy another server again.” Channel Insider takes a look at the Rackspace Hosting survey results to see what IT really thinks about server maintenance.
    Microsoft, i365 Aim to Spoil Symantec`s Grip on Storage Protection Market
    The two companies are teaming up to extend the capabilities of Data Protection Manager, which to this point has only been available for environments exclusively running Microsoft platforms.
    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.

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