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Virtualization Gives SMBs Control
I love speaking to user groups and admittedly I really enjoy working with other solution providers and talking about what we all do. So when I get the opportunity, I try to make these conversations constructive. One of the big questions I hear all the time from customers is, “Is virtualization right for us? We’re…
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Storage Market Continues Decline, iSCSI a Bright Spot
Even as the worldwide external disk storage market remains in decline, certain categories continue to show double-digit growth – categories likely to be sold by solution providers. iSCSI SAN (storage area networks) grew by 57.2 percent year over year in Q2 and fiber channel SAN grew by 66.8 percent for the same period, both in…
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Tufin Technologies Revamps Partner Program
Tufin Technologies beefed up its channel partner program this week with a three-pronged upgrade that it hopes will jumpstart indirect sales and benefit resellers and integrators that focus strongly on security. Based in Israel, Tufin has grown from a small upstart firewall management company to a strong niche player in security lifecycle management. With a…
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CA Spiffs Up Security Perks for the Channel
To bolster support of the channel and increase the value of its security products, CA announced Sept. 3 a couple of big perks for its security channel partners and end users. Starting yesterday, CA’s Internet Security Business Unit will give away remote installation of all its security products bought through the channel. In addition, the…
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Cloud Storage Comes of Age
Managed hosting service provider giant Carpathia Hosting was looking to get into the storage cloud space with an object-based offering that would allow the company to offer a fully managed cloud to its customers, which include many large enterprises. That’s because while cloud computing has been on the leading edge of technology up until now,…
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VARs Continue to Struggle in Peripherals Market
Like most of the rest of the technology industry, the hardcopy peripherals market has completed a brutal year, according to IDC’s latest numbers. Overall, the worldwide hardcopy peripherals market declined 21 percent year over year in 2Q09 to 24.1 million units. Shipment value declined 23.2 percent over the same time period to $11.6 billion. The…
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