Tag: Storage
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The Cloud Moves Ahead, but Isn’t Fully Mature
The Cloud Moves Ahead, but Isn’t Fully Mature Shifting Cloud Trends More than six in 10 cloud users have made secondary shifts in their infrastructure or applications after their transition to the cloud. Roughly 10% to 15% have made only one move, which may include shifting from a public to a private cloud, switching providers… Read more
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Flash Storage Drives Major Channel Opportunities
Flash storage—which in all its forms is likely to be the biggest thing to hit the data center in 2013—creates opportunities for solution providers to help customers reinvent how primary storage is managed. Flash memory has been around for more than 20 years. However, with the advent of smartphones and tablets, consumer demand for flash… Read more
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Asigra Creates New Pricing Model for Backup, Recovery
By Gina Roos and Michael Vizard As part of an effort to rectify what it describes as a fundamentally broken pricing model for cloud backup, Asigra, a cloud backup, recovery and restore software provider, has introduced a new pricing model that seeks to decouple backup from the recovery process. Instead of charging customers a flat… Read more
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Tech Data Delivers HP Portal for US Resellers
Tech Data has unveiled its HP Advanced Customer Experience Solution (ACES) configuration portal, developed to help partners proactively manage requests, and track service levels and turnaround times. Available to all Tech Data’s U.S. reseller partners, HP ACES streamlines the solution sales process by simplifying the ordering and tracking process, and providing real-time progress reporting on… Read more
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Virtualization’s Top Challenges: Storage Performance, Costs
Categories: VirtualizationPercentage of Mission-Critical Apps to Be Virtualized By the end of 2013, the vast majority expect to be well over 80 percent virtualized. Read more
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The Four Faces of EMC
Categories: StorageEMC wants to engage channel partners with four distinct parts of the business. The first is the parent company, which makes most of its money selling storage systems. The other three are VMware, RSA and the new Pivotal business unit that’s focused on application development. While committed to working collaboratively, each of the EMC business… Read more