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• 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.
• 2013 Partner Programs Guide: Storage Vendors
  4:00 PM EST Mon. Mar. 25, 2013
  CRN looks at the storage vendors that received the 5-star award in our annual Partner Program Guide, for their commitment and services offered to their channel partners.
• Brocade Fabric Vision Maximizes Move To 16-Gbps Fibre Channel
  10:56 AM EST Mon. Mar. 25, 2013
  Brocade Fabric Vision is a new set of management tools targeting the quick adoption of high-performance, highly reliable 16-Gbps Fibre Channel.
• Netgear's ReadyNAS 6.0 OS Targets SMBs, SOHOs
  10:26 AM EST Mon. Mar. 25, 2013
  With ReadyNAS 6.0, Netgear simplifies its product line in a way that finally lets customers decide which to buy based on the speed and capacity they need.
• Software-Defined Storage: Separating The Reality From The Hype
  10:00 AM EST Fri. Mar. 22, 2013
  The term "software-defined storage" may have recently sprang from thin air to take advantage of buzz over software-defined networking, but the idea of defining storage services using software independent of the underlying hardware has taken hold.
• QLogic's New FabricCache: Performance Boost Made Easy
  9:45 AM EST Fri. Mar. 22, 2013
  The QLogic FabricCache 10000 adapter is aimed at adding performance to applications that can benefit from high-speed flash storage but increasingly do not run on a single server.
• Storage-Focused Vendors Continue Grabbing Bigger Share Of Storage Market: Gartner
  3:13 PM EST Thu. Mar. 21, 2013
  EMC continued its storage market share grab in 2012 with sales of external controller-based disk storage sales up 10.7 over 2011, while Oracle saw the biggest drop, 11.0 percent, of all the top vendors, Gartner said.