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Warmenhoven’s New Role: Channel Ambassador
One day last week, Dan Warmenhoven was enjoying a relatively relaxing day compared with the intensity of what his day would have been had he stayed in the chief executive’s office of NetApp. While he sat in his new cubicle down the hall from his former office, his successor, Tom Georgens, was in New York…
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Brocade Reportedly Putting Self Up for Sale
(Reuters) – U.S. network equipment maker Brocade Communications Systems Inc. has put itself up for sale, the Wall Street Journal said on Monday, triggering a 14 percent jump in the company’s shares. The paper, citing people familiar with the matter, said Oracle Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co were potential bidders for the company, but a deal…
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VMware Updates Disaster Recovery Software for Virtualization
Adding support for its most recent product update VMware vSphere 4 and for Network File System (NFS)-based storage replication, VMware is now offering an updated version of its VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 4. The software, first introduced in June 2008 and now updated for the first time, offers automated disaster recovery for VMware environments.…
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Cisco, IBM, HP and Dell Named as Possible Brocade Suitors
Brocade (NASDAQ:BRCD) has put itself on the market, and Hewlett-Packard and Oracle are among those interested in potentially buying the networking and storage technology vendor, according to a report today in the Wall Street Journal. Several big technology vendors—HP, Sun, IBM and most recently Dell—have built their vertical data center solutions via partnerships with Brocade,…
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Storage Specialist Xiotech Snags $10 Million in Financing
Just five months after it laid off about 14 percent of its workforce, Eden Prairie, Minn.-based Xiotech hopes to accelerate its storage networking business out of the recession with a new round of $10 million in financing that it says will help it build out new product offerings for release in early 2010. A specialist…
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Storage Vendor NetApp Intros FAS2040, Drops Price on FAS2020
With its reseller channel partners in mind, NetApp has simplified its FA2000 product line, reducing the number of SKUs from over 45 to about 10. NetApp this week also announced a new FAS2040 storage system for midsized enterprise and distributed enterprise customers and announced significant price reductions for its FAS2020 systems. “These changes came as…
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