Recent Articles
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Helping Combat Downtime, On-Premise and in the Cloud
Downtime Downtime Events 59% of companies experienced an outage in the past three months while 28% had an outage in the past month. Outage Causes Hardware failure is the biggest reason for outages, said 55% of respondents. Other causes were upgrades and migration (51%), human error (47%), application error (43%) and power outages (39%). Customer…
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Asigra Delivers Software-Defined Data Protection
Looking to help channel partners reduce cloud backup storage costs and deployment time, Asigra released its Software-Defined Data Protection (SDDP) technology. The new offering uses commoditized infrastructure and vendor-agnostic technologies to provide scalable and lower-cost cloud backup storage for channel partners. The approach is an alternative to expensive monolithic systems and is expected to speed…
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The Channel Rises to the Cloud Opportunity
The channel, much like nature itself, abhors a vacuum. Like it or not, cloud computing is changing IT fundamentals in a way that is forcing solution providers of all sizes to make adjustments. The real issue is whether those adjustments will make solution providers in the age of the cloud stronger or weaker. In theory,…
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SAP Launches New HANA Application Partner Program
When it comes to applications, ecosystems tend to have a multiplier effect in spurring adoption. The more applications that are developed on a particular platform, the more success that platform tends to enjoy as more developers flock to be on the same platform. Recognizing that need, SAP launched the PartnerEdge program for Application Development to…
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Channel News Briefs: Week of June 8
Core Security Inks Partner Deal With Axxum Core Security, a provider of attack intelligence solutions, has added Axxum Technologies to its Core Secured Partner Program. Axxum is a provider of cyber-security services for the federal government, specializing in risk management, information assurance, security operations and penetration testing & vulnerability assessments. The partnership enables Axxum to add the Core…
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Managing Storage in a Software-Defined World
While just about everybody would tend to agree that storage needs to be simpler to manage, very few people seem to agree what’s the best way to go about making that happen. As a result, it seems like every vendor these days is bandying about the term software-defined storage (SDS), but what that means is…