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Gridstore Woos MSPs with NAS Offering
After close to two years of preparation in Ireland, Gridstore has opened its doors in Palo Alto, Calif., and is taking the wraps of its first offering targeted at managed service providers. NASg is an enterprise-class storage platform that delivers unlimited storage capacity, network bandwidth and processing capacity on existing Network Attached Storage resources. It…
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Coming Soon: Bull’s Eye Award Winners
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…
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EU Softens Stance on Oracle’s Sun Acquisition
(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…
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IT Jobs Trends 2010: Predictions for the New Year
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…
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Dell Zeros In on Data Center Storage
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…