Year: 2009

  • Looking Back: Top 10 Storage Stories for 2009

    Steve Wexler

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    #1 Bigger Byte, Smaller Bite Perhaps in no other IT product segment is the “do-more-with-less” approach more appropriate than in storage. The good news is that digital storage demands continue to soar and are expected to increase as much as 200 percent over the next couple of years. The bad news is that prices —… Read more

  • Coming Soon: Bull’s Eye Award Winners

    Channel Insider Staff

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    We’ve nearly completed judging for the inaugural Channel Insider Bull’s Eye Awards. We were scheduled to start announcing the award winners last week, but our judging panel was simply overwhelmed by the volume and quality of the nearly 500 nominations we received. Rather than announcing all of the award winners at once, we will make… Read more

  • Sun Ending ‘Try and Buy’ Program

    Channel Insider Staff

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    Sun Microsystems is discontinuing its radical “try and buy” program, through which it was handing over hardware from across its portfolios to end users for 60-day trials. The program is unique in that the user got brand-new equipment ranging from the Sun Ultra 27 Workstation (MSRP $2,914) to the SPARC Enterprise T5440 Server (MSRP $89,895),… Read more

  • EU Softens Stance on Oracle’s Sun Acquisition

    Channel Insider Staff

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    (Reuters) – EU regulators signaled they could clear Oracle Corp’s $7 billion takeover of Sun Microsystems Inc, after the U.S. software company promised measures to ease competition concerns. The European Union’s executive European Commission said it was optimistic a "satisfactory outcome" was possible. It had previously objected to the deal, citing possible competition constraints on… Read more

  • IT Jobs Trends 2010: Predictions for the New Year

    Jessica Davis

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    While the recent Department of Labor report showed that IT employment may have turned the corner recently, that doesn’t mean there will be a big job recovery in IT in 2010. Expect IT hiring to remain sluggish through most of 2010, only picking up at the end of the year and maybe not even until… Read more

  • Dell Zeros In on Data Center Storage

    Steve Wexler

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    The battle for the data center has been heating up recently with the likes of Cisco’s California, HP’s Converged Infrastructure, IBM’s Smarter Planet and the disappearance of Sun, so Dell’s decision to throw its hat in the ring with its own IT-as-a-commodity approach should come as no surprise. However, somewhat buried in the company’s grand… Read more