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Axcient Melds Appliance, Cloud for Data Backup
The impetus behind storage startup Axcient came from an unlikely source – while working for another startup, Axcient’s now-CEO Justin Moore’s laptop crashed. While technology failures usually are more cause for irritation than innovation, the experience of having to send his laptop—and all the business data it contained—to an offsite recovery specialist and wait weeks…
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CA Intros ARCserve Incentives, New Channel Focus
Computer Associates is beefing up solution provider incentives around its ARCServe Backup software, hoping to boost partner sales of the product and gain ground against its main competitor, Symantec’s Backup Exec. The new program offers up-front discounts and back-end rebates for solution providers selling the ARCserve Backup product, says Adam Famularo, senior vice president and…
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INX Hosts Cisco Unified Computing Summits
INX, a large systems integrator based in Houston, is likely the first of Cisco Systems’ global network of data center specialty companies to launch headlong into Cisco’s new unified computing systems by hosting a multicity event around the virtualized blade server architecture. Just a day after Cisco took the wraps off its unified computing system…
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Symantec’s New CEO Is Committed to Growing with the Channel
Competitors have crowed about stealing accounts and robbing market share away from Symantec. They say they’re slowly chipping away at Big Yellow’s dominance in the security industry because Symantec has become distracted by its adventures in storage and systems management. And many solution providers say they are switching away from Symantec because of poor products…
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Texas Memory Intros RamSan-20 PCI-Based Storage
Texas Memory Systems’ new RamSan-20 delivers a complete storage system on a PCI-e card, allowing solution providers to offer customers increased capacity and performance that installs in minutes. SSDs (solid-state disks) are becoming increasingly popular in data center deployments, and improvements in flash technology and pricing are creating demand for different form factors and connectivity…