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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
Storage Market Continues Decline, iSCSI a Bright Spot
The good news for reseller channel partners is that the entry level iSCSI market continues to grow strongly, even amid declines in much of the rest of the IT storage technology market.
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.