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Intel SSD Prices Drop for Holiday Shopping Season
Intel has dropped the price of its Solid-State Drive (SSD) product line and introduced a new model, a move the company says comes just in time for holiday shopping season. While it may not be as glamorous as a brand new iPad or Samsung Galaxy Tab or new color eNook, Intel points out that SSDs…
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NetApp’s FlexPod for VMware Goes Up Against EMC’s vBlock
Storage vendor NetApp’s biggest refresh of product lines to date includes the introduction of a new data center architecture design, FlexPod for VMware, that goes straight up against rival EMC’s Vblock architecture. NetApp Channel Chief Julie Parrish told Channel Insider that the new FlexPod for VMware comes from the ongoing collaboration among Cisco, NetApp and…
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Dot Hill Launches AssuredUVS Unified Virtual Storage Appliances
Unified virtual storage and SAN storage solutions provider Dot Hill announced the launch of AssuredUVS Standard and AssuredUVS Datacenter, built on the company’s Assured architecture. The appliances consolidate and virtualize storage across storage protocols, environments and mixed storage platforms to support multiple server applications. The appliances help enable small to medium-size businesses to manage combinations…
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EMC, Isilon Acquisition Talk Cools
NEW YORK, Nov 4 (Reuters) – Shares of data storage company Isilon Systems (NASDAQ:ISLN) fell 7.4 percent on Thursday after a Wall Street Journal report said EMC Corp’s (NYSE:EMC) interest in a takeover deal had cooled. The two parties have not been able to agree on price, the Journal reported on its website, citing unnamed…
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Data Storage Growth Trends that Benefit the Channel
Data Storage Growth Trends that Benefit the Channel More Data than Ever BeforeData is growing in leaps and bounds. In fact, Berkeley School of Management recently said more data has been created in the last three years than in the whole of human history. And, experts say it’s just going to keep going and growing.…
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EMC, Dell Working to Fix Relationship
(Reuters) – Tech giants Dell Inc and EMC Corp are trying to repair a long-running business partnership that was damaged when one of them flirted with the rival of the other. The trouble began in August when Dell offered $1.15 billion to buy high-end storage maker 3PAR, a competitor of EMC. Although 3PAR was eventually…
