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Ruckus Vies for Enterprise Attention
Ruckus Wireless has introduced a dual-band 802.11n access point and other WLAN products designed to earn it some attention in the enterprise space. Ruckus, which found its sweet spot in the midmarket between vendors serving the large enterprise space such as Cisco Systems and Aruba Networks and the consumer market such as Linksys, has been…
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Symantec’s New CEO Is Committed to Growing with the Channel
Competitors have crowed about stealing accounts and robbing market share away from Symantec. They say they’re slowly chipping away at Big Yellow’s dominance in the security industry because Symantec has become distracted by its adventures in storage and systems management. And many solution providers say they are switching away from Symantec because of poor products…
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Librato Leverages Old-School Concepts for New-World Data Centers
Librato’s newly announced channel partner program will leverage old-school workload management concepts with cutting-edge technology to better support solution providers who want to take enterprise customers beyond virtualization. John Wernke, vice president of marketing for Librato, says while workload management concepts have been around since the early days of computing, the tenets of resource optimization…
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Ultralights, MacBook Air and Netbooks, Oh My
If you want to create some controversy, just say something along the lines of “The MacBook Air sucks for business.” While that may be a blanket statement that unfairly casts the MacBook Air in a negative light, there’s some truth to the statement when one takes a look at competing products and how they are…
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Texas Memory Intros RamSan-20 PCI-Based Storage
Texas Memory Systems’ new RamSan-20 delivers a complete storage system on a PCI-e card, allowing solution providers to offer customers increased capacity and performance that installs in minutes. SSDs (solid-state disks) are becoming increasingly popular in data center deployments, and improvements in flash technology and pricing are creating demand for different form factors and connectivity…
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Pillar Debuts SSD-Based Axiom Storage Solution
Pillar Data Systems will add solid-state drive technology to its Axiom storage solutions, allowing solution providers to deliver faster, more cost-effective, highly available solutions for midmarket and enterprise customers. The introduction of SSD drives into Pillar’s Axiom chassis allows solution providers to add a fifth tier of storage capability to the solution, says Bob Maness,…