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Storage Software Sales Up From Q2, Down for Year
Despite the ever-escalating amounts of digital data that needs to be stored — growing at least 60 percent per year — the storage market has suffered along with the rest of the IT industry in this down economy. What should come as no surprise is that according to the latest numbers from IDC, storage software…
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Dell Strikes Back at Data Center Rivals HP, Cisco
Dell is taking the build-to-order philosophy that vaulted the company to success in the 1990s and applying it to the data center with a plan for modular components of computing, storage, networking and infrastructure management that can be easily assembled, deployed and managed. The announcement Dec. 10 is Dell’s answer to Cisco Systems’ and Hewlett-Packard’s…
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New Scale Computing Clustered Storage Targets EMC, Dell
Clustered storage provider Scale Computing recently released version 2.0 of its product offering to its 50-plus VAR community. The new product aims to reduce cost and improve control and ease of use for midmarket IT administrators. The product release comes on the heels of a tremendous growth year for Scale, and, according to Scale CEO…
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EMC Delivers on Storage Tiering Vision
Originally announced by EMC in April, the fully automated storage tiering (FAST) vision ‘to revolutionize the way storage is managed’ is now ready for prime time, says Scott Delandy, senior product manager, EMC. He likens today’s storage environment to that of a jet. "If you think about aviation and flying jets, years ago you had…
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Ingram Micro Brings Cisco Vblock Designs to Broader Channel
Cisco’s Vblock infrastructure architecture isn’t just for giant solution providers anymore. IT distribution giant Ingram Micro this week announced that it would make the Cisco, EMC and VMware’s Vblock data center reference designs, the products to build them, and the support needed to do it, available to the 2,500 of its channel partners who are…