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NetApp Teams with Texas Memory Systems on Flash
Network Appliance has partnered with Texas Memory Systems to certify interoperability between its V-series open storage controller and TMS’ RamSan-500 solid-state disk, allowing solution providers to boost customers’ storage performance and simplify data management. "IT departments are under unprecedented pressure to boost performance and leverage their existing storage architecture," says Woody Hutsell, executive vice president…
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NetApp Discontinues SMB Storage Line
In tough economic times, it’s not unusual for vendors to reevaluate their product lines and eliminate those that aren’t performing well. But Network Appliance’s decision to kill off its StoreVault product, targeted to the SME market, is raising eyebrows across the industry, and opening up opportunities for the storage giant’s competition. The StoreVault product line…
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Has Fibre Channel over Ethernet’s Time Come?
After years of slow progress, Fibre Channel over Ethernet technology is poised to set off a seismic shift in the data center, storage and networking markets. Traditional data center infrastructure uses an Ethernet-based LAN infrastructure to connect servers to each other and a separate Fibre Channel network to connect servers and storage, says Jieming Zhu,…
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De-dup Excess Data, Extend Hardware Life
Solution providers are capitalizing on customers’ increased focus on extending storage hardware lifecycles and leveraging the vendor’s market-leading de-duplication technology to create unique business opportunities. Steve St. John, director of sales at Lewan and Associates, says the market for de-duplication solutions has grown substantially over the last five years, and continues to be hot as…
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HP Rosy on 2009 Storage Prospects
Hewlett-Packard believes that the outlook for the storage market in 2009 continues to be strong, and the vendor says it will focus on technologies, services and programs to help its solution providers address IT expense, operations, and storage acquisition and management challenges. Kyle Fitze, director of marketing for the storage platforms division of HP StorageWorks,…
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DataCore, Tech Data Team Up on Storage Solution
Tech Data’s Advanced Infrastructure Solutions division has partnered with storage virtualization provider DataCore to give solution providers tools to help customers manage growing data volumes more effectively and leverage existing infrastructure more efficiently. The partnership will bring DataCore’s SANMelody and SANSymphony storage virtualization software to Tech Data solution providers whose customers are struggling to balance…
