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CDW Gets EMC’s Iomega Network Storage Array Appliance First
Iomega, EMC‘s small and medium business storage arm, will be launching a new Network Storage array rack-mount appliance next week that will significantly expand its market reach. Jay Krone, Iomega’s GM of network solutions, tells Channel Insider that the Iomega StorCenter ix12-300r Network Storage array will be exclusive to CDW until mid-June, when the product…
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Data Centers and Clouds to Add Huge Hard Disk Drive Capacity
A prominent IT researcher forecast May 3 that the hard-disk storage industry will be building and selling products at an unprecedented pace during the next five years. In fact, the world hard drive industry is predicted to deliver more than 300,000 petabytes of storage capacity through 2015 — mostly to enterprise data centers and cloud…
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Compellent Consolidates File And Block-Level Storage
In what could be considered unusual timing, Eden Prairie, Minn.-based Compellent Technologies has announced zNAS, which consolidates file and block-level storage on a single platform based on the ZFS file system. The timing is interesting because zNAS won’t ship until the end of June, and the company, which is 100 percent channel, is holding its…
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Compellent Offers Open Source Network-Attached Storage System
Compellent, a progressive-thinking data storage company that was an early mover to the idea of providing unified connectivity, on April 27 launched the first network-attached system based entirely on the open-source Zettabyte File System. The 128-bit ZFS, which numerous storage network developers have described as extraordinarily fast, is an in-demand open-source software package for handling…
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HP Signals Call to Arms against Cisco, Dell
Hewlett-Packard executives wasted no time and few words at its annual partner conference in Las Vegas calling on partners to rise to the competitive challenges posed by its chief rivals—Cisco Systems and Dell. In an ironic coincidence of scheduling, the HP and Cisco partner conferences are happening simultaneously. And HP executives almost gleefully acknowledged that…