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Dell, EMC Kill Storage Reseller Partnership Two Years Early
Something that has been talked about openly in storage circles for more than two years has come to pass: Dell and EMC are parting ways in selling storage hardware, and they are ending their agreement two years early. Now Dell and EMC are officially competitors. Following a complicated 10-year partnership that was to run until…
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DataDirect Networks Introduces WOS 2.0 Storage Appliance
Information storage company DataDirect Networks unveiled the next generation of its Web Object Scaler system, WOS 2.0. With this release, DDN introduced accessibility and data protection features to complement an appliance built on a cloud storage system, which the company said is capable of scalable performance 70 percent faster than Amazon S3 and more than…
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Data Center Hardware Spending to Hit $99 Billion in 2011: Gartner
Worldwide data center hardware spending is projected to reach $98.9 billion in 2011, up 12.7 percent from 2010 spending of $87.8 billion, according to IT research firm Gartner. Data center hardware spending is forecast to total $106.4 billion in 2012 and surpass $126.2 billion in 2015. Gartner identifies data center hardware spending as including servers,…
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Imation Launches Scalable Storage Platform
Storage solutions specialist Imation has unveiled a scalable storage portfolio of data protection and data archive products designed to help data-intensive, compliance-driven small to medium-size businesses retain, retrieve and recover data. Imation’s scalable storage platform features InfiniVault and DataGuard multitiered data archive and data protection appliances, as well as the company’s existing RDX removable hard…
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Data Recovery Platform Selection Depends on Tech Support: Survey
According to respondents of Backup My Info s first IT Consultant survey, which analyzed how IT consultants perceive online data backup and recovery and included IT consultants, VARs, systems integrators and other channel professionals, technical service and support (91 percent) is the most important factor when selecting data backup and recovery vendors. Pricing (73 percent),…