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• Software, Hardware, High-Speed Sailing: 20 Scenes From Oracle OpenWorld
  4:00 PM EST Tue. Oct. 01, 2013
  Oracle OpenWorld, now one of the world's biggest IT conferences, was more interesting than usual thanks to drama around Oracle Team USA's America's Cup win grabbing attention between all the hardware, software and cloud news.
• EMC Hires Former Symantec, Oracle Exec To Head New Emerging Technology Division
  3:36 PM EST Fri. Sep. 27, 2013
  EMC's new hire brings experience with Oracle applications and Symantec data protection and endpoint security technologies to EMC's new Emerging Technology Products Division, making him a potential key player in building EMC's future end-user experience.
• Oracle Cloud Gets New Compute, Storage, Database Services
  10:30 AM EST Wed. Sep. 25, 2013
  The Oracle Cloud now has a wide range of new services, and the company is making them available to solution providers on a resell or referral basis.
• Cloud Storage Startup Nirvanix Tells Customers, Partners It's Shutting Down
  12:32 PM EST Tue. Sep. 17, 2013
  Nirvanix, a cloud storage startup that has raised more than $70 million in VC funding, is telling partners it's shutting down at the end of the month, sources told CRN.
• eFolder Acquires Anchor, Brings Channel-Focused File Sync And Share To Cloud Storage
  7:00 AM EST Tue. Sep. 17, 2013
  eFolder's acquisition of Anchor will result in a business-class integrated offering specifically for MSPs and solution providers that includes cloud backup, disaster recovery, and file share and sync.
• 5 Companies That Came To Win This Week
  10:35 AM EST Fri. Sep. 13, 2013
  For the week ending Sept. 13, CRN looks at IT companies that brought their 'A' game and made moves to beat out competitors.
• Fall Product Roundup: Workstations, Storage And More (Video)
  1:55 PM EST Thu. Sep. 12, 2013
  The CRN Test Center looks at three of this year's hottest products, including a new video surveillance system and a top-line workstation.
• EMC Hires Away Execs From Microsoft, Oracle For Isilon Unit
  8:07 PM EST Tue. Sep. 10, 2013
  EMC has gone poaching to staff up its Isilon Systems network attached storage unit, bringing in storage veterans from Oracle and Microsoft.
• Review: Symantec Backup Exec 3600 (Video)
  4:02 PM EST Wed. Sep. 04, 2013
  The CRN Test Center takes the Symantec Backup Exec 3600 for a spin to see how some features benefit the data management appliance.
• EMC: Second-Generation VNX Brings Huge Speed, Capacity Leap
  10:00 AM EST Wed. Sep. 04, 2013
  EMC says its new VNX will be available as a stand-alone array and as part of four new configurations of the EMC VSPEX reference architecture.
• VeriStor, HP 3PAR Help HoneyBaked Ham Of Georgia Meet The Holiday Crush
  5:15 PM EST Fri. Aug. 30, 2013
  HoneyBaked Ham of Georgia, where sales volume during the peak holiday season could reach as high as 10,000 times normal volume, needed a new storage system to keep up with orders, and found a solution in VeriStor, a solution provider and partner for HP 3PAR storage.
• VMworld 2013: 18 Must-See Storage Offerings (Part 2)
  12:00 PM EST Fri. Aug. 30, 2013
  Part 2 of a two-part VMworld roundup of a wide range of storage-focused hardware and software shows just how much of a focus storage has become in the new virtualized and cloud environments being built to handle today's complex workloads.
• VMworld 2013: 20 Must-See Storage Offerings (Part 1)
  2:00 PM EST Wed. Aug. 28, 2013
  Part 1 of a two-part VMworld roundup of a wide range of storage-focused hardware and software shows just how much of a focus storage has become in the new virtualized and cloud environments being built to handle today's complex workloads.
• VMware Expands Software-Defined Storage With New VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN)
  3:38 PM EST Mon. Aug. 26, 2013
  VMware is beefing up the storage leg of its software-defined data center strategy with VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN), which pools SSDs and hard drives from up to eight servers to allow the capacity to be automatically provisioned as needed by virtual machines.
• Review: Symantec Backup Exec 3600
  10:47 AM EST Thu. Aug. 15, 2013
  Symantec further simplifies disaster recovery with Backup Exec 3600, a fully licensed Windows Server with Backup Exec pre-installed.
• 7 High-Tech Attention-Getters From 2013 (So Far)
  1:35 PM EST Wed. Aug. 07, 2013
  High technology gets higher all the time. From the CRN Test Center, here are some of the year's best products so far.
• PernixData FVP Clusters Server Flash To Add Performance In Virtualized Environments
  5:52 PM EST Mon. Aug. 05, 2013
  With PernixData FVP software, multiple servers' flash and SSDs can be clustered to form a high-performance storage tier supporting virtualized environments without the need for changing customers' hardware.
• Egnyte Adds Enterprise File Sync And Share To Google Drive
  2:52 PM EST Fri. Jul. 19, 2013
  Egnyte, in conjunction with Google Docs, can now allow business-class file sync and share capabilities for files stored on premises and in the cloud.
• Startup Gazzang Releases Security Solution For OpenStack Clouds
  1:00 PM EST Fri. Jul. 19, 2013
  Big data security startup Gazzang announced its latest encryption and key management solution for OpenStack clouds, according to a company press release. Gazzang partners discuss what it will mean for them and those looking to partner with the security company.
• The 10 Coolest Storage Startups Of 2013 (So Far)
  10:00 AM EST Tue. Jul. 16, 2013
  Some storage startups in the first half of 2013 came out of stealth mode, some unveiled their first products or channels, and some got acquired, all of which combined to ensure the storage business remains an exciting market in which to be.
• 5 Companies That Came To Win This Week
  10:10 AM EST Fri. Jul. 12, 2013
  For the week ending July12, CRN looks at IT companies that brought their 'A' game and made moves to beat out competitors.
• Rethinking DR: Asigra Focuses On Cost Of Restores, Not Backups
  7:45 PM EST Wed. Jul. 10, 2013
  The Asigra Recovery License Model, introduced at Asigra's partner conference, scales the cost of disaster recovery plans based on how much data is restored, not backed up, with one partner calculating that customers could cut the cost of cloud data protection by up to two-thirds.
• The Best And Worst Tech Stocks Of 2013 (So Far)
  4:00 PM EST Wed. Jul. 10, 2013
  It's been a mixed first six months on Wall Street for tech vendors, with some vendors like Hewlett-Packard seeing big run-ups in stock prices and others like FalconStor recording big drops in share value.
• EMC Introduces New Hardware, Software In Move To Better Integrate Data Protection Lines
  2:40 PM EST Wed. Jul. 10, 2013
  EMC, in a move to better integrate its often disparate data protection lines, unveiled new Data Domain, Avamar, Networker, and Mozy hardware and software with improved interoperability.
• Asigra Adds Cloud-To-Cloud Backup Of Google Apps
  3:42 PM EST Tue. Jul. 09, 2013
  The new Asigra Cloud Backup 12.2 now allows solution providers and MSPs to add cloud-to-cloud backup capabilities to Google Apps and also features one-pass backup of Microsoft Exchange 2013 and enhanced virtual disaster recovery.