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• HP Shares On Rise After Better-Than-Expected Q2 Earnings
  5:40 PM EST Wed. May. 22, 2013
  HP beat analysts earnings expectations for its second fiscal quarter despite year-over-year revenue declines across many of its businesses.
• Dell 1Q Disappoints, But Points To Successful Move From PC To Enterprise Focus
  7:39 PM EST Thu. May. 16, 2013
  Dell's enterprise systems sales, excluding storage, were up while PC sales were down in the first fiscal quarter 2014 as Dell prepares to go private in a move it hopes will let it reorganize as an end-to-end solution provider away from Wall Street scrutiny.
• Hitachi Adds New Specialization Incentives, Partner-Only Accounts To TrueNorth Channel Program
  12:20 PM EST Thu. May. 16, 2013
  HDS is using back-end rebates to incent its TrueNorth channel program partners to get specializations for its Hitachi UCP converged infrastructure solution, and is promising channel-only targeting of customers outside of its named accounts.
• 10 Hot Products From EMC World To Hit The Storage Scene
  2:00 PM EST Tue. May. 14, 2013
  Even thought there was nothing like the massive EMC 42-product release seen at the EMC World 2012, there was still enough new storage hardware and software unveiled at EMC World 2013 to make the visit worthwhile.
• Dell Tool Lets Partners Configure Enterprise-Class Solutions
  12:18 PM EST Tue. May. 14, 2013
  The new Online Solutions Configurator is aimed at giving partners a leg up in constructing Dell servers, storage, networking and other converged infrastructure offerings.
• HP Tackles SMB Storage Biz With New MSA, StoreEasy NAS Products
  2:35 PM EST Mon. May. 13, 2013
  HP is making a new SMB storage push with a 16-Gbit Fibre channel MSA 2040 array, a new StoreEasy NAS appliance, and its new HP Simply StoreIT channel program.
• Nutanix Seeks Partners To Help With Scale-Out Data Center Vision
  12:43 PM EST Tue. May. 07, 2013
  Nutanix, a fast-growing converged infrastructure startup, is looking to build out its North American partner ranks with partners ready to embrace its scale-out data center philosophy.
• Lenovo To Drop Iomega Brand On Joint EMC Products
  4:20 PM EST Thu. May. 02, 2013
  Iomega's NAS hardware will soon carry the LenovoEMC name as Lenovo looks to spark channel adoption of the storage products.
• Amazon's AWS Chief: Cloud Services Party Just Getting Started
  4:53 PM EST Tue. Apr. 30, 2013
  Top Amazon execs speaking at AWS Summit 2013 tell attendees that as the company moves from cloud servers, storage and databases to include networking, data warehousing and application services, AWS' full capabilities are only now coming into focus while its competitors are scrambling to keep up.
• Offering A Complete Solution: Storage VAR Builds Storage Services VAR
  4:20 PM EST Tue. Apr. 30, 2013
  H.A. Services, a new solution provider formed as a storage replications services sister company to H.A. Storage, is investing in NetApp and EMC infrastructures to give customers without the resources to own their replication hardware an offsite solution for disaster recovery and archiving.
• Storage, Security Products Take Center Stage At AWS Summit 2013
  10:15 AM EST Tue. Apr. 30, 2013
  The AWS Summit 2013 conference will feature a wide range of solutions from vendors partnering with Amazon on improving the storage, movement, protection and security of data in the cloud.
• Virtualized Data Center, Services Strength Drive VAR Datalink's Growth
  8:39 PM EST Mon. Apr. 29, 2013
  Datalink, one of the few midrange solution providers to provide quarterly financials, said that its Cisco-NetApp-EMC-centered virtualized data center business and its fast-growing services operations are driving the company's current growth.
• 5 Companies That Came To Win This Week
  10:10 AM EST Fri. Apr. 26, 2013
  For the week ending April 26, CRN looks at five companies that brought their 'A' game and made moves to beat out competitors.
• EMC Q1: Channel Now Over 50 Percent Of Sales, But No Impact On Margins
  5:40 PM EST Wed. Apr. 24, 2013
  EMC channel partners applauded EMC Chairman and CEO Joe Tucci's response to financial analyst concerns about the impact of increasing channel sales on margins after Tucci said the impact is neutral and channel sales are growing faster than overall sales.
• Five Solid-State Drives For The Data Center (Video)
  3:45 PM EST Wed. Apr. 24, 2013
  The CRN Test Center looks at transfer rates, IOPS and more for five of the top enterprise SSDs.
• Exablox Exits Stealth Mode With Channel-Only Play To Make Storage Simple
  10:45 AM EST Wed. Apr. 24, 2013
  Storage startup Exablox introduces its Exablox OneBlox, a scalable storage solution that solution providers can install in five minutes to provide a full range of unstructured data storage services.
• 2013 Channel Champs: Overall Winners
  2:00 PM EST Mon. Apr. 22, 2013
  The CRN Channel Champions study highlights solution provider satisfaction with their vendor partners' products and services.
• OpenStack Summit: 10 Vendors Putting Storage Front And Center
  10:50 AM EST Mon. Apr. 22, 2013
  When clouds based on the open-source OpenStack code are built, there will be no lack of storage thanks to the rush by storage vendors to be a part of the OpenStack ecosystem.
• HP Brings Fibre Channel Storage To OpenStack Clouds
  1:43 PM EST Mon. Apr. 15, 2013
  HP cited the importance of connecting Fibre Channel storage to OpenStack clouds in the release of new Fibre Channel APIs for its HP 3PAR StoreServ and its StoreVirtual storage technologies.
• HDS CEO Jack Domme Becomes Hitachi Ltd.'s First Non-Japanese Corporate Officer
  5:35 PM EST Fri. Apr. 12, 2013
  Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), whose CEO is now the first non-Japanese corporate officer at Hitachi Ltd., has made a number of key executive moves as part of its bid to become less storage hardware-focused and more of an overall provider of solutions.
• Tandberg Shows Off BizNAS Storage Appliance (Video)
  12:43 PM EST Thu. Apr. 11, 2013
  Tandberg's 'BizNAS' storage appliance is designed for SMB customers looking to store and protect corporate data.
• 10 Virtualization Startups Getting Attention Right Now
  12:10 PM EST Tue. Apr. 09, 2013
  Virtualization startups are continuing to make noise despite many of them transforming themselves into cloud startups. Here are 10 that still call what they do 'virtualization.'
• Former Symantec CEO: 'We Did The Best Job We Could But Not The Best Job Possible'
  4:42 PM EST Fri. Apr. 05, 2013
  Former Symantec CEO John W. Thompson says the aim was true on the security-storage vision behind the blockbuster $11 billion Symantec-Veritas merger in 2005, but the execution could have been better.
• GreenBytes Scores $7 Million VC Round, Takes Aim At VDI Costs
  4:06 PM EST Fri. Apr. 05, 2013
  GreenBytes, a virtualization startup that aims to solve VDI storage challenges, lands a big VC round and says it's pushing hard on patenting more of its technology.
• Top Sales Executive Norbie Leaves Nexus Information Systems
  4:37 PM EST Thu. Mar. 28, 2013
  Keith Norbie, the highly respected vice president of sales and vendor management for Nexus Information Systems, has left the company.