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• Oracle Leads The Pack As Converged Infrastructure Q2 Sales Surge
  7:35 PM EST Thu. Oct. 03, 2013
  Worldwide sales of converged infrastructure solutions, or integrated infrastructure and platform solutions in IDC parlance, rose 50 percent in the second quarter compared to the year before, according to a new IDC study.
• Channel Beat: BlackBerry Layoffs Looming (Video)
  2:34 PM EST Fri. Sep. 20, 2013
  This week's recap also looks at the new VCE partner program, plus the effects of the tragic Navy Yard shooting on security measures and clearance for government contractors.
• Tech Data To Give HP Partners A Hand With 3Par Installation, Deployment
  10:15 AM EST Thu. Sep. 19, 2013
  Solution providers looking for help installing and deploying HP 3Par storage systems can now go to Tech Data to augment their services capabilities under a new program developed in conjunction with HP.
• 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.
• Introducing Atom C2000 'Avoton': Intel Builds Server, Storage, Networking Partnerships
  12:00 PM EST Fri. Sep. 13, 2013
  Intel's low-power-consumption Atom C2000 'Avoton' processors are slated for use in a number of new server, storage and networking platforms where energy efficiency is a must, and CRN has the first take on many of them.
• 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.
• Analysis: Cisco's Whiptail Buy Less About EMC, NetApp And More About HP, Dell
  6:21 PM EST Tue. Sep. 10, 2013
  Rather than competing in storage, Cisco and its partners maintain that Cisco's planned acquisition of all-flash storage array vendor Whiptail is all about adding application acceleration technology to Cisco UCS that will help partners' storage work better in Cisco environments.
• IDC: Second-Quarter Storage Sales Slump As Capacity Booms
  2:07 PM EST Tue. Sep. 10, 2013
  External storage and total storage revenue fell in the second quarter compared to last year, with EMC and NetApp doing well while storage sales by server vendors fell, along with server sales.
• 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.
• Pure Storage Gets $150M Funding, Talks Big Plans For All-Flash Storage Arrays
  8:03 PM EST Thu. Aug. 29, 2013
  With a new funding round, from investors not normally focused on startups, plus the recruitment of Frank Slootman, former Data Domain CEO and a master at getting companies notices, there's a good chance the all-flash storage array developer will soon look at an IPO.
• 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.
• EMC: Racing Toward The Debut Of VNX2 Storage Array
  4:44 PM EST Tue. Aug. 27, 2013
  EMC's VNX2 -- with significant hardware and software enhancements -- is slated to premiere in Italy next week with a Formula 1 racing theme, sources say.
• 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.
• Dell: No. 1 In Storage Capacity Shipped Despite Falling Storage Revenue
  4:25 PM EST Tue. Aug. 20, 2013
  For Dell, bragging rights in the storage business adds to the enterprise profile the company is trying to build as part of its ongoing bid to become private.
• NetApp Changes Channel Program To Focus On Partners' Changing Customer Needs
  4:54 PM EST Mon. Aug. 19, 2013
  NetApp's new channel chief, Peter Howard, said the storage vendor's new unified partner program is targeted at helping increase solution providers' business whether they focus on consulting, reselling, the cloud, or any combination.
• 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.
• HP Adds Sub-LUN Tiering, New Licensing To HP StoreVirtual VSA
  4:45 PM EST Tue. Aug. 13, 2013
  New sub-LUN tiering capabilities and more licensing options are helping to make the HP StoreVirtual Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA) more applicable to a wider range of solution providers' customers.
• Nimbus Data Intros Low-Cost All-Flash Arrays For Less Than Hybrid Array, Plans '14 IPO
  4:47 PM EST Mon. Aug. 12, 2013
  The new fourth-generation all-flash arrays from Nimbus Data feature 1x-nanometer MLC flash technology and software enhanced to turn random writes into sequential writes to boost performance and keep costs below those of hybrid flash-spinning disk arrays.
• 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.
• HP CTO Lays Out HP's Vision For Future Computer Architecture
  6:22 PM EST Fri. Aug. 02, 2013
  Martin Fink, HP CTO and director of HP Labs, has proposed replacing the same computer architecture that's been in place for the last 60 years with technologies that allow automated data analytics on systems featuring high-density storage and memory and using 16,000 times less electricity per bit of data.
• Big Data Believers: NetApp, Cisco Take FlexPod To Next Level With Hadoop
  10:30 AM EST Tue. Jul. 30, 2013
  The FlexPod reference architecture now has a validated Hadoop solution with FlexPod Select, the latest addition to NetApp and Cisco's jointly developed series.