Recent Articles
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Backup and Recovery Vendor Asigra Offers New Channel Program
Asigra introduced a new channel program Oct. 27 that it says will provide partners with more flexibility in the way they offer cloud-based backup and recovery services and products and will level the playing field for all solution providers. The Toronto-based software vendor rolled out enhancements to its Hybrid Partner Program in order to give…
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LSI Says End-to-End 6Gb/s SAS a Reality
Having just completed a better-than-expected third quarter (ended Oct. 4), LSI is looking to cash in on the economy’s "modest recovery" by demonstrating to the channel that end-to-end 6Gb/s SAS solutions are real and available now. The company has partnered with SuperMicro and Seagate Technology to showcase the technology, products and benefits, says LSI’s David…
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Vendors Enhance the Case for Solid State Disks
Two new vendor initiatives are attempting to strengthen and enhance the business case for solid-state storage and the opportunities available to the channel. Texas Memory Systems has set new SPC-1 records for flash storage performance and value, and Dataram Corporation (www.dataram.com) has released a tech alert outlining the business benefits of solid-state storage appliances. Together,…
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Oracle’s Ellison Talks Up Sun Acquisition
By Jim Finkle SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Oracle Corp CEO Larry Ellison talked up his company’s prospects after a planned purchase of Sun Microsystems Inc, saying he hopes the deal will help more than double revenue within five years. Ellison, who co-founded the company 32 years ago and built it into the world’s No. 2…
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Avnet Teams with Scale Targeting Small Business End of Data Storage Market
Data storage startup Scale Computing scored a major coup this week by landing Avnet as its first distributor in North America. Scale Computing provides what it calls Intelligent Clustered Storage (ICS) systems for midsize and small businesses. The product runs on both IBM and Scale-branded commodity hardware and is designed to bring enterprise-level storage solutions…
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Warmenhoven’s New Role: Channel Ambassador
One day last week, Dan Warmenhoven was enjoying a relatively relaxing day compared with the intensity of what his day would have been had he stayed in the chief executive’s office of NetApp. While he sat in his new cubicle down the hall from his former office, his successor, Tom Georgens, was in New York…