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NetApp Chief: ‘We`re Not for Sale’
Ever since Cisco Systems unveiled its blade server strategy and Sun Microsystems revealed its desires to be bought, analysts and industry observers have questioned the viability of storage area network pioneer NetApp and speculated that it would be the next victim of industry consolidation. The day after announcing intentions to acquire deduplication vendor DataDomain, CEO…
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Distributor Tech Data’s Q1 Net Income Soars 49% as Deal Pricing Stays Competitive
Seeming to defy the recession, Tech Data’s (NASDAQ:TECD) net income soared 49 percent year over year in the distributor’s first fiscal quarter. But the company did that on revenues that declined 17 percent year over year. That’s because not all revenue is good revenue, Tech Data CEO Bob Dutkowsky tells Channel Insider. Dutkowsky says that…
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EMC Tackles Deduping Problem
ORLANDO: From a storage vendor’s perspective, i.e. EMC, the fact that digital data is growing at an explosive rate, with the "digital universe" doubling every 18 months and expected to be five times larger by 2012, is good news. But from a customer’s perspective, storing and managing that data continues to be a nightmare. One…
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NetApp to Acquire Dedupe Vendor Data Domain for $1.5B
Storage and data management vendor NetApp (NASDAQ:NTAP) will acquire data deduplication vendor Data Domain (NASDAQ:DDUP) in a $1.5 billion deal net of Data Domain’s cash—or $25 per share. NetApp says the deal will benefit the reseller channel partners of both companies, giving Data Domain access to a “more robust and mature channel program” and giving…
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Tech Data Opens Apple Lab for iPhone, iPod and Apple Computers
While consumers may be the ones buying the iPod, iPhone and Apple computers, many businesses have become more open to integrating these devices into their IT environments, and that spells opportunity for resellers. That’s why IT distributor Tech Data is launching an Apple Lab to help its reseller channel partners and their end customers to…
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Report: Digital Universe Doubling Every 18 Months
EMC started off its ninth customer and partner conference with some cloud announcements and some surprising findings in its latest study on what’s happening in the storage market. Essentially, EMC is saying it’s good to be in the data business, or information lifecycle management, as it likes to style it. The study by IDC found…