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Report: Cost-Conscious Firms Cling to Dusty Storage Technology
New storage technology may well be faster, more reliable for data protection, simpler to manage and more flexible, but companies on tight budgets aren’t moving their precious data off their old methods—at least for now. That’s the conclusion of a report from Enterprise Strategy Group, a Milford, Mass., consultancy. According to the January report, titled…
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Webroot, Iron Mountain Push Online Storage Security
SANTA CLARA, Calif.—While smaller, new-generation companies such as Arsenal (now with IBM), Berkeley Data Systems (now with EMC), Carbonite and others have tended to hog the headlines in the midmarket online data storage space, a couple of relative senior citizens have quietly added their own brands to this burgeoning market. Iron Mountain, established in 1951…
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AMD Goes After Mainstream with Triple-Core Chips
In an effort to remake both its mainstream and high-end desktop offerings, Advanced Micro Devices is releasing the first of its tri-core Phenom processors and is adding several new quad-core parts to its lineup. AMD will release two Phenom X3 triple-core processors, along with five additional Phenom X4 quad-core processors, March 26, as the chip…
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Marathon Makes a Run for Virtualization
Marathon Technologies has unveiled EverRun VM software, a technology that the company says will help VARs speed the acceptance of virtualization and disaster recovery solutions for midmarket companies running Citrix XenServer virtual infrastructures. Sold 100 percent through the channel, the company’s technology comes from disaster recovery roots, according to Steve Keilen, vice president of marketing.…