Recent Articles
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New Marketing VP Leads STORServer Channel Program Revamp
Backup vendor STORServer is hoping to energize its channel by announcing a new partner program today that follows months of engagement by Kevin Burns, a channel veteran who took over the reigns as vice president of worldwide marketing in August 2009. Called SP3, the program has its foundation laid in a three-tier incentive program that…
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IBM Unveils Tape Storage’s Future
We’re still a long way from actually having this technology deployed, but IBM researchers have made a major advance in magnetic tape density that should keep the spindles spinning for many years to come. Working with FUJIFILM Corporation of Japan, the scientists at IBM Research – Zurich recorded data onto an advanced prototype tape, at…
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F5 Formalizes NetApp Relationship
Shrugging off the economy F5 Networks has followed up a strong fiscal first quarter by formalizing its unofficial working relationship with NetApp , joining the NetApp Alliance Partner Program as an Advantage Alliance Partner. While he doesn’t expect this to impact any relationships with F5’s other storage partners, it will help both companies’ channels sell…
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Solid State Drives Keep Fueling Storage Market
Although they won’t see the exponential growth they recorded in 2009, solid state drives (SSDs) will once again outpace the overall storage market, and will offer a much bigger opportunity to the channel, according to a new report from IDC. Last year’s enterprise shipments soared 250 percent to more than 200,000 units, while this year’s…
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EMC Doubles Clariion Capacity, Slashes Space, Energy Usage
While targeted at several data-intensive applications, EMC’s latest midrange storage offering, high-density Clariion CX4 configurations, represents the evolution of the storage industry at large, packaging more capacity and capabilities in smaller physical spaces and consuming less energy. "Over the last two years, a lot of customers have been looking at efficiency and cost savings as…
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Nexsan, FalconStor Prep Fast, Green Backup
Late next month, Nexsan Technologies will ship a new line of data protection and disaster recovery appliances bundled with deduplication software from FalconStor Software. The Nexsan DeDupe SG (Speed with Green) 2.0 with the new version of FalconStor’s File-interface Deduplication System (FDS) 2.0 is targeted at data protection and disaster recovery applications that require high-performance…