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Netgear Pushes Way into Midmarket Storage
Already a dominant vendor in the SMB storage market, Netgear is moving up-market with two new solutions optimized for storage virtualization applications and support for up to 500 users. Due to ship next month, the ReadyNAS 3100, a 1U 4-bay rack-mountable storage platform with up to 8 terabytes (TB) of capacity and the 4200, a…
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Data Center Expansion New Sites Trending Up
Data Center Expansion New Sites Trending Up No Title Budget IncreasesThe economy is a bear and traditional growth tech markets continue to shrink across the board. VARs in the data center game can expect budget growth of up to 8% for opening new data centers and related IT projects through 2010. No Title The…
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Storage Market Future Brightening Up
IDC has just released its numbers for the external disk storage systems factory revenues for the fourth quarter of 2009 (4Q09), showing a slight year-over-year decline of just less than 1 percent, to $5.3 billion. The total disk storage systems market grew to $7.3 billion, representing flat growth from 4Q08 while total disk storage systems…
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HP ProCurve Visionary Joins Brocade, Slams Cisco, HP Data Center Plans
Cisco and HP may be pushing their new monolithic architectures in the data center, but customers in that segment tend to “move in a much more cautious and judicious fashion,” according to John McHugh, the HP executive credited with building the ProCurve line into a billion dollar business. McHugh spoke to Channel Insider from his…
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EMC Shuffles Channel Executives, Adding Accenture Veteran
EMC has reshuffled its channel executives, adding Accenture veteran Terry Breen to oversee the company’s go-to-market initiatives with its systems integrators, outsourcers and service providers. EMC has confirmed that Pete Koliopoulos, who has served as EMC channel chief since 2006, is moving over to run channel programs related to the Vblock coalition, which is made…
