Tag: data
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Reinventing Cloud Storage with a Little Help from the Channel
There’s obviously a lot of interest in cloud storage these days, but actual usage of cloud storage has not been as popular as most solution providers in the channel might like. The reason for this is that most customers are not very disciplined about backup and recovery as a process, In addition, many customers can’t… Read more
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The Many Faces of WAN Optimization
The history of opportunity for solution providers in the channel is very closely tied to bottlenecks. Almost any time there is an impedance mismatch between storage, servers and the network it creates a limited IT resource that needs to be optimized. Today the resource that is most limited is the wide area network (WAN). While… Read more
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Data Migration Services Escalate Storage Wars Across the Channel
Given the immense amount of scrutiny that IT storage budgets are getting it may come as little surprise that there is an intense amount of infighting going on these days between solution providers representing different storage vendors. But what may come as a surprise is how much easier it’s becoming for customers to switch storage… Read more
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NetApp Extends UCS Partnership with Cisco
While EMC enjoys a close relationship with Cisco via their Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) joint venture, there’s nothing that says customers have to use EMC storage alongside Cisco Unified Computing Systems. In fact, competition to attach storage systems to a Cisco UCS server platform that continues to enjoy brisk sales is fierce. And now NetApp wants to… Read more
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HP Leverages VANs to Create Hybrid Cloud Ecosystems
Hewlett-Packard is taking the concept of “cloudbursting” a step further starting today with the deployment of software-defined networking technologies that make it much easier for application workloads to dynamically move between data centers. Bethany Mayer, senior vice president and general manager for HP Networking, says new Virtual Application Network (VAN) technology being launched today will… Read more
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What Dell Sees in Wyse Technology
On the one hand the acquisition of Wyse Technology by Dell can be simply seen as a move to fill out a portfolio products in the data center that complement other recent Dell acquisitions such as Compellent, Force 10 Networks and SonicWall. After all, the thin client and desktop virtualization technologies that Wyse sells are… Read more