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Big Data Means Big Prospects for the Channel
Big Data Means Big Prospects for the Channel Does Your Organization Have a Big Data Initiative Under Way? The vast majority are in some stage of big data deployment. Yes, operational and in production: 32%, Yes, under consideration: 31%, Yes, completed: 28%, Nothing planned: 9% Big Data Budgets Within three years, 50% say big data…
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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…
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Ingram Micro Adds to Its Cloud Portfolio via SoftCom Buy
Ingram Micro has acquired SoftCom, a cloud marketplace and global service provider, in a move to enhance the distribution giant’s cloud services and aggregation platform, and boost its cloud services portfolio for the small and midsized business (SMB) IT channel. Toronto-based SoftCom’s offerings include domain name management, Web hosting and cloud infrastructure services, and other…
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SMEs Bask in Hybrid Storage Benefits of Virtual Environments
SMEs Bask “Impressive” Adoption Rates Sixty-nine percent of respondents with greater than 250 terabytes (TB) of virtualized storage use or plan to deploy a hybrid storage strategy to meet storage demands of virtual servers. The survey refers to adoption rates of hybrid storage systems as “impressive” because the technology is still relatively new. More Is…
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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…
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Dropbox.com Launches Channel Network
When it comes to compliance and security issues, the specter of end users routinely violating corporate polices when using cloud services such as Dropbox.com has been a boon to solution providers that specialize in these areas. Now, however, instead of being the source of the problem, Dropbox.com wants to work with channel partners to become…
