Steve Wexler

Shining a Spotlight on Social Media Risks Internet security vendor Webroot’s survey of more than 1,100 members of Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Twitter and other popular social networks showed an increasing awareness among social network users of how to keep personal information private. At the same time, it revealed how social network users still put their […]

While representing only a fraction of disk sales — $4 billion versus $16 billion in 2009 — tape sales continue to grow, led by the Linear Tape Open (LTO) format, which accounted for 83 percent of total tape sales. HP, market leader of this segment with 32 percent share, is refreshing its entire lineup with […]

The OEM/reseller relationship with EMC has been a lucrative one for both Dell and EMC, but there have been signs that the relationship isn’t what it used to be. Case in point: Dell’s announcement today of homegrown data management solutions, which seems to signal that the co-opetive relationship is leaning a lot more towards competition […]

Targeted at its new channel, LSI has released the 600 series JBODs (just a bunch of drives), which are 2U, rack-mountable storage enclosures based on 6Gb/s SAS technology that include the built-in LSI SAS2x36 6Gb/s SAS expander IC. The enclosures offer hot-swappable drive bays that support 3Gb/s and 6Gb/s SATA or SAS hard disk drives […]

Having recently made the decision to go 100 percent channel and unveiled its first channel program a month ago, Coraid is dramatically expanding its potential customer base with new storage products that extend its reach beyond its Linux and array roots. Based in Redwood City, Calif., the company is announcing a new line of EtherDrive […]

Hot on the heels of RSA’s refresh of its data loss prevention suite (DLP), McAfee is announcing an upgrade to its DLP (version 9) solution. The update represents the culmination of five years’ work, Howard Price, Group Product manager, Data Protection at McAfee, tells Channel Insider. Following a number of DLP acquisitions, including Onigma and […]

New research from recent Dell acquisition Kace finds 87 percent of IT professionals surveyed plan to deploy Windows 7, up dramatically from a similar study done in April 2009. Of more significance to the channel, almost half of the 900 respondents plan to move to Windows 7 before the anticipated summer release of Service Pack […]

The jury is still out on iSCSI replacing Fibre Channel in the enterprise storage area network market, but the situation will get more interesting within the next few years for FC versus Fibre Channel over Ethernet. That’s according to Dell’Oro Group analyst Seamus Crehan, who tells Channel Insider that the FC-SAN market experienced broad-based record […]

EMC is going after the Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 market with business continuity/disaster recovery solutions, networked storage technologies, and consulting services that will create opportunities for the channel with Exchange customers with 500 to more than 80,000 seats. By utilizing the latest Exchange APIs EMC is the first to market with an integrated set of […]

RSA, EMC’s security arm, has enhanced its Data Loss Prevention Suite with more than 70 new features for scanning, workflow, reporting, and global content processing. Version 8.0 of the RSA DLP Suite provides better protection to sensitive information by offering better visibility into high areas of risk, and helping improve the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of […]

Report after report indicates the growing importance of wireless technology to small and medium businesses, which means the growing importance of wireless technology to the channel. Now you can throw in another proof point, a national study by AT&T that found that wireless technologies are becoming increasingly crucial to survival for today’s small businesses, who […]

Most everybody in IT is talking about cloud computing, and a number of companies — including major players like Microsoft, Google and saleforce.com — are rolling out cloud offerings, but it’s IBM that is shooting to be top gun, focusing on cloud computing workloads and partner ecosystems. Launching next quarter will be Big Blue’s Smart […]