Tag: Storage
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Solution Providers to Vie for Tight IT Dollars
Categories: News and TrendsIT spending IT Budgets Holding Steady On average, IT professionals surveyed plan to invest $291,062 on IT products and services this year. Only 33% of respondents expect 2015 budgets to increase from 2014 levels. Top Drivers of IT Spending More than two-thirds (67%) of IT pros cite end-of-life support as the driving force behind new… Read more
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Promisec Signs Distribution Deal With Synnex
Categories: PartnersPromisec Signs Distribution Agreement With Synnex Promisec inked a distribution agreement with Synnex to provide its endpoint security offerings to solution providers in the channel. These offerings include Promisec’s Endpoint Manager and Integrity cloud solution. Endpoint Manager provides a single dashboard to manage all IT and security operations on endpoints, and the Integrity software-as-a-service (SaaS)… Read more
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10 Important Ways a Now-Private Dell Inc. Is Changing
Categories: Tech CompaniesDell changes Channel Sales Are Up Dell said the channel now accounts for 40% of revenue. The company compensates its salesforce for deals fulfilled through the channel; it also sees a higher attach rate of products per transaction sold through the channel. Channel Investments Increase Dell aims to reduce sales cycle times and is investing… Read more
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Storage Purchasing Patterns Start to Shift
Categories: StorageVirtualization and storage The Virtualization Landscape A full 70% have ESX from VMware installed, but, by next year, 35% said they also will have Microsoft Hyper-V. Usage of Other Platforms Other platforms used by respondents include Xen and KVM with more growth expected in the use of KVM, rather than Xen, in the next year.… Read more
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The Cloud: An Alien Technology Redefines Data Centers
By Mike L. Chase Much of the technology that powers the cloud is derived from the intellectual property of the cloud service providers themselves or an emerging market that caters to only them. It is an alien level of technology that much like master magicians is hoarded as much as it is sought after. While… Read more
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Selling Flash Storage Capacity on Demand
With the rise of flash memory, customers are trying to figure out where to apply this technology to the most benefit. Given the cost of flash storage systems, most IT organizations obviously can’t afford to store all their data in flash. The challenge is that many of them are not sure how much “hot data”… Read more