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IBM Beefs Up Storage Lineup for Resellers
IBM, which continues to evolve from its hardware roots to selling primarily software and services, is refreshing a number of its storage products and is counting on the channel to account for a bigger slice of its revenues. As this week’s monster performance in storage earnings indicate, Big Blue is still one of the dominant…
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HP Cloud Service Lets You Print from Your Blackberry
SAN FRANCISCO — Hewlett-Packard, RIM (maker of BlackBerry connected devices), FedEx Office and Hilton Worldwide joined forces April 21 to kick-start a new cloud-based service for mobile printing, long a nagging problem for many traveling business people. As a result of this new initiative, BlackBerry users now can search for the closest connected printer wherever…
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Hitachi Launches Unified Computing System
Hitachi Data Systems has jumped aboard the unified computing system bandwagon currently occupied by Hewlett-Packard, Dell/Brocade and Cisco Systems’ UCS partnership with EMC and VMware. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based subsidiary of Japan’s Hitachi Ltd. announced April 19 that it is launching its own open-standards-based, unified computing platform aimed at cloud computing deployments for ISPs and…
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Cloud Storage Customers Get Another Option from Dell, Microsoft
Seagate cloud storage subsidiary i365 came out April 19 with a new version of its EVault storage appliance optimized for Microsoft’s data protection suite, System Center Data Protection Manager 2010. The collaborative project is indicative of Microsoft’s determination to move deeper into the cloud storage and services sector and of i365 starting to climb to…
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Xiotech Aims to Disrupt Enterprise Storage Market
A privately held company based in Eden Prairie, Minn., Xiotech wants to solve the growing application/storage conflict with what it calls the market’s first and only solution for intelligent application storage. Originally spun off from Seagate, the company believes that storage vendors focusing on adding management software—i.e., Dell, EMC, HDS, HP, IBM and NetApp—don’t understand…
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CTERA Rolls Out Channel-Friendly Cloud Storage Portal
Hybrid cloud-based storage and data protection vendor CTERA Networks is reaching out to service providers, including MSPs and resellers, with a cloud platform that is a turnkey solution for delivering cloud-based storage and data protection services, from creating service plans to remote maintenance of appliances, including the CloudPlug and C200. Available immediately in SaaS and…