Steve Wexler

There may be nothing to cheer about commodity hardware prices and margins, but two new reports from IDC offer at least the faint glimmer of hope for higher unit sales. The research company expects the PC market to experience double-digit growth through 2014, while the hardcopy peripherals market has finally rebounded following six quarters of […]

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EMC is releasing software enhancements that increase virtual storage efficiency, automation and management simplicity for its most popular storage line. The EMC Celerra Plug-Ins for VMware Environments benefits include: reducing virtual machine storage capacity requirements by up to 50-percent through thin provisioning, deduplication and improved management; accelerating the cloning of virtual machine data two-to-three times […]

Already a dominant vendor in the SMB storage market, Netgear is moving up-market with two new solutions optimized for storage virtualization applications and support for up to 500 users. Due to ship next month, the ReadyNAS 3100, a 1U 4-bay rack-mountable storage platform with up to 8 terabytes (TB) of capacity and the 4200, a […]

2010s Top PCs Shape Up and Ship Out 2010’s Top PCs: Shape Up and Ship Out! No Title The focus on ultrathin PCs will continue to grow in 2010, but the value equation for many consumers is still not compelling enough to drive significant growth, leaving the segment with less than 5% of total portable […]

Originally introduced last April and drawing strong interest from the channel, EMC’s SourceOne family of GRC (governance, risk and compliance) products is getting a family extension. Available now, SourceOne Email Supervisor enables customers to monitor inbound and outbound e-mail and instant messages for compliance with policies and regulations including those mandated by the National Association […]

IDC has just released its numbers for the external disk storage systems factory revenues for the fourth quarter of 2009 (4Q09), showing a slight year-over-year decline of just less than 1  percent, to $5.3 billion. The total disk storage systems market grew to $7.3 billion, representing flat growth from 4Q08 while total disk storage systems […]

A month after announcing a 42 percent jump in fourth quarter revenues, Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions (ECS) becomes the latest distributor to try and carve out a bigger slice of the growing professional services pie. Arrow is no stranger to services, but it has spun off the professional services unit it acquired with Alternative Technology […]

Nexenta Systems’ CEO Evan Powell has 93 reasons why the channel should be excited about NexentaStor 3.0, a major upgrade to the company’s enterprise-class, hardware- independent storage solution based on the file system ZFS, and Virtual Machine Datacenter (VMDC) 3.0. Due out at the end of the month, it is called the first commercial storage […]

LAS VEGAS:  In the city that excels at hosting large groups of people — and relatively painlessly lightening their wallets along the way — this week’s IBM Pulse 2010 services management event is already a dimming memory as 5,000 attendees, including 1,000 partners, have gone their separate ways. But for at least some, like Thales’ […]

LAS VEGAS: Worth $3.9 billion in 2009, the digital signage market is hot, so Ingram Micro is launching what it calls the first of its kind digital signage certification in distribution. Available Wednesday as a SKUed offering in the U.S., the Ingram Micro Digital Signage Certified Expert certification (IM-DSCE) consists of online, instructor-led training courses, […]

Primarily focused on data protection within the SMB market, Tandberg Data has been extending its reach outside its tape roots for the last several years, and is taking a big step forward with its latest products, including its first unified NAS and SAN appliance and new backup and recovery software, says McClain Buggle, Product Director […]