Recent Articles
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Virtualization Is No Fad
Gartner released some great information about their predictions on server virtualization. Although server virtualization is not currently as widespread as many presume, the market is growing rapidly, according to Gartner, Inc. Only 16 percent of workloads are running in virtual machines today, but Gartner predicts that this will rise to around 50 percent of x86…
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Midsized Companies Lose Average of $43K Per Year From Security Incidents
Last year midsized companies spent a total of $17.2 billion fixing IT security incidents according to new research out this week from McAfee. McAfee recently had MSI International surveyed 900 companies with between 51 and 1,000 employees to find that in the past year a single midsized organization lost $43,000 on average due to security…
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Backup and Recovery Vendor Asigra Offers New Channel Program
Asigra introduced a new channel program Oct. 27 that it says will provide partners with more flexibility in the way they offer cloud-based backup and recovery services and products and will level the playing field for all solution providers. The Toronto-based software vendor rolled out enhancements to its Hybrid Partner Program in order to give…
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LSI Says End-to-End 6Gb/s SAS a Reality
Having just completed a better-than-expected third quarter (ended Oct. 4), LSI is looking to cash in on the economy’s "modest recovery" by demonstrating to the channel that end-to-end 6Gb/s SAS solutions are real and available now. The company has partnered with SuperMicro and Seagate Technology to showcase the technology, products and benefits, says LSI’s David…
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ConnectWise Upgrades Partner Community Platform
Hot on the heels of a major hardware failure that disrupted service for almost 200 of its 2,400 customers, professional service automation (PSA) vendor ConnectWise is launching its second-generation partner collaboration platform. ConnectWise Network 2.0 offers significant new features and enhancements to its partner community of IT service providers, said Jeannine Edwards, Director of the…