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Backup Challenges Create Channel Opportunities
Do You Currently Use a Backup Solution? 81% reported that they are currently using a backup solution.
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Data Explosion Makes Backup and Recovery a Challenge
The Data Explosion With the amount of data being created increasing exponentially every month, 65 percent of the respondents said they were now managing more than 100TB of data while 39 percent said they now have more than 1 petabyte.
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sTec Rolls Out Channel Program
sTec, an OEM provider of solid-state drive (SSD) technologies to a variety of major vendors, wants to come out from behind the curtain. The company, which is currently faced with a number of financial challenges, announced that it will begin selling solid-state memory products under its own brand name—both direct and through the channel. As…
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Flash Memory War to Play Out in Channel
The six major vendors that make up the oligarchy that dominates enterprise storage are deeply worried. The rise of flash memory has brought with it a bevy of startup vendors, including Pure Storage, XtremIO, Fusion-io, Skyera, Violin Memory and Virident Systems—all of which are gaining market traction pretty quickly. Most of the major vendors—including IBM,…
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Cisco and NetApp Raise FlexPod Channel Game
Joint ventures are difficult to manage on any level, especially when the nature of the product being offered has a lot of dependencies involved. Solution providers in particular get frustrated having to deal with the same issues over and over again. In that context it’s good to see Cisco and NetApp moving to address some…
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Backup and Recovery in the Cloud Equals Change
Now is a time of great change when it comes to backup and recovery. For more years than anyone cares to remember IT organizations mostly dependent on traditional tape backup software, even when using disk-based backup systems. But with the advent of cloud computing things have become a little more complicated. Because of network bandwidth…
