Recent Articles
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ONStor Cougar Sinks Its Teeth into the Midmarket
ONStor is looking to tap into midmarket demand for storage solutions that deliver cost-savings and performance efficiencies with its new Cougar series network-attached storage gateway appliances, specifically designed for the price-conscious SMB market. Hewlett-Packard’s StorageWorks Simple SAN, announced in April 2008, and Dell’s EqualLogic purchase suggested that vendors were eager to go after the SMB…
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Symantec Needs to Focus on Relentless Execution
Symantec has a problem, and it’s not the fact that channel chief Julie Parrish resigned to join NetApp a few days before the company’s channel event in Washington, D.C. Fortunately, the issues challenging Symantec are about the same that any major technology company experiences after going on a series of acquisition binges. Right now,…
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Parrish Departing Symantec for NetApp
Iconic channel chief and longtime leader of the Symantec partner program Julie Parrish is leaving the security and storage vendor at the end of the month to pursue new career opportunities. Reports of Parrish joining NetApp are unconfirmed. But sources say that she’ll be taking the position vacated by Leonard Iventosch last summer. NetApp released a…
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Symantec Partners: Parrish Leaves Big Shoes to Fill
Solution providers are shocked that Julie Parrish is leaving Symantec, and say she’s leaving big shoes to fill in the global channel chief office. In an internal memo obtained by Channel Insider, Symantec Chief Operating Officer Enrique Salem announced Parrish would leave Symantec at the end of October. Symantec confirmed that Parrish was leaving to…
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HP Welcomes Proposals That Target Non-HP Customers
In the ever-tightening economy, Hewlett-Packard sees the path to continued fiscal health and growth running through new customers that have never bought the company’s products. To reach those large swaths of non-HP customers, the vendor is welcoming partnership proposals from solution providers that promise to capture more of that business. Speaking at the Synnex national…
