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Toshiba Launches New Class of Memory Cards The new 16GB microSDHC and SCHC memory cards will provide greater memory and performance capcity for mobile media devices. Storage Solutions Head for the On Demand Cloud As customers re-evaluate their capital IT budgets, yet still need more storage capacity, cloud storage solutions are garnering more interest as users look to on demand storage. ParaScale, The Planet, Nirvanix and Amazon S3, among others, may all have something to offer an IT solution provider's customers. Asigra Gets Flexible on Pricing Storage vendor Asigra is making its disaster backup and recovery software available for a monthly fee without upfront costs. EMC Gives Weak Outlook, Sees Slower Tech Spending IT storage vendor EMC forecast earnings for the current quarter at the low end of Wall Street expectations on slower spending on information technology. EMC CEO Joseph Tucci said he saw a challenging economic environment ahead and Tucci said he expected IT spending to grow between 1 percent and 3 percent next year. Oracle, HP Team Up on Data Warehousing Hardware The HP Oracle Database Machine’s Exadata Storage Server supports up to 12TB of raw storage. The alliance-build product will give Oracle a competitive offering to rivals Teradata and Netezza. Oracle and EMC: Improve Database Performance in a Flash (Drive) Solution providers and IT consultants who deploy EMC's standard Symmetrix DMX-4 using flash drives can offer their customers sub-millisecond application response time and up to 30 times more I/O operations per second than the fastest available disk drives, according to EMC. By using the flash storage, customers can realize the same performance upgrades that would have required dozens of conventional Fibre Channel hard disk drives. Flash: Samsung Makes Play for SanDisk The South Korean electronics giant is offering $5.85 billion for the American flash memory card maker. A sealed deal will further consolidate the market dominated by Samsung and Toshiba. Storage Virtualization: Help or Hype? Two buzzwords, storage and virtualization, are coming together. Here's how to sort the myths from reality. Rackable to Seed the Cloud A new lineup of dense, x86 systems could be the backbone to cloud computing and businesses interested in Web 2.0 infrastructures. Symantec, Citrix Unveil New VI Package Symantec data center management chief sees XenSource as a 'big bet' to capture new data center customers. Double-Take Releases Virtual Recovery Assistant for VMware Double-Take's technology partnership with VMware gives its new Virtual Recovery Assistant a built-in channel base and customers eager to take advantage of the software enhancement. EMC Ships New Bundle for VMware New middleware simplifies backup/recovery for Exchange and SQL Server running on VMware. Fujitsu, OnStor Take Swipe At NetApp Fujitsu inks agreement to resell OnStor's Bobcat NAS Gateway, pitting the vendor against market leader Network Appliance. Dispersed Storage: The Next Frontier for Solution Providers? For solution providers looking for a better way to sell storage than in boxes, a technology that has been around for a while, called Dispersed Storage, has been newly commercialized by Cleversafe. Cleversafe executives Chris Gladwin and Russ Kennedy explain in this Changing Channels podcast. VMware Reconfirms Channel Focus The virtualization vendor has used its conference to inform partners of its channel plans and new solutions available to them. IBM Builds Storage Arrays from 1TB Drives IBM introduces second-generation disk and tape systems for large and small data centers. Bell Micro Adds Hitachi SMB Storage to Lineup Bell Micro will distribute the Hitachi SMS 100 line, giving partners selling into the SMB space another option to take against rival HP. Pivot3 Wants Its Tech to Be All the RAIGE Pivot3 hopes $24 million in additional funding and success with city government customers will expand the reach of its RAIGE technology. |
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