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Storage Vendor NetApp Intros FAS2040, Drops Price on FAS2020
With its reseller channel partners in mind, NetApp has simplified its FA2000 product line, reducing the number of SKUs from over 45 to about 10. NetApp this week also announced a new FAS2040 storage system for midsized enterprise and distributed enterprise customers and announced significant price reductions for its FAS2020 systems. “These changes came as…
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Oracle Takes Aim at Sun Competitors
Oracle and its soon-to-be-acquired partner, Sun Microsystems, made their first joint product announcement since the April 20 merger announcement on Sept. 15 when they unveiled a souped-up, NAND flash-based database server designed for both enterprise-level data warehousing and extreme-performance online transaction processing. As the trend has been playing out for the last two years, it’s…
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SMB Surveys Reveal Mixed Results
A trio of new surveys indicates that SMBs will: (a) be reducing their budgets 4 percent this year (Forrester Research); (b) make significant investments in new hardware and software over the next six months (Spiceworks); and (c) believe the economy will improve moderately by the end of the year (PartnerUp). So basically, pick your survey…
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CA Buys NetQoS for $200 Million
CA continues its push to support enterprise cloud efforts by picking up the network performance management firm NetQoS for $200 million. The buy puts CA in charge of a fully-developed suite of network flow monitoring, unified communications management and response time analytic network solutions that should conceivably fill in some gaps within its service delivery…
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New Model for Selling Holistic Smartphone Security
Security channel providers who help customers approach smartphone protection in a holistic fashion could grab hold of a significant market niche if they approach it the right way, says an industry analyst at Compliance Research Group, which today released a new model for implementing mobile security in the enterprise. Meant to aid channel partners, vendors…
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Test Driving Cloud Computing
While there’s plenty of excitement about the prospects of cloud computing, there remains just as much skepticism in the marketplace, especially within enterprises skittish about putting highly distributed mission-critical applications outside of their own domain. Duncan Johnston-Watt, founder and CEO of U.K.-based cloud software company Cloudsoft, understands that trepidation and wants to do something about…