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• Dell, Equinix Listed As Top Creditors In Nirvanix's Chapter 11 Filing
  8:27 PM EST Tue. Oct. 01, 2013
  Cloud storage technology provider Nirvanix, which Monday filed for Chapter 11 protection, listed several hardware, software and hosting companies including Dell and Equinix as top creditors.
• Nirvanix Files Chapter 11, Works With IBM To Migrate Customer Data
  5:41 PM EST Tue. Oct. 01, 2013
  Cloud storage technology provider has filed for Chapter 11 protection after warning customers of its service that they had until mid-October to find a new service.
• 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.
• HP Unleashes Hefty PartnerOne Rebates To Drive Global Sales Growth
  12:01 AM EST Tue. Oct. 01, 2013
  Lucrative back-end rebates under HP's new unified PartnerOne channel program give HP partners the opportunity to drive global sales growth and grab market-share gains against the likes of Cisco and Dell.
• 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.
• 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.
• Nirvanix Partner Aorta Plans Coalition Of Customers, Investors To Save Nirvanix Cloud Storage Service
  4:14 PM EST Wed. Sep. 18, 2013
  Nirvanix, which gave its cloud storage service customers two weeks to move their data before it closes operations, might be given a temporary or permanent lifeline from Aorta Cloud, a partner working to find customer and investor interest in acquiring the company.
• NetApp's Cloud Strategy: The Tech Is There, Now To Put It All Together
  3:24 PM EST Tue. Sep. 17, 2013
  NetApp's Data ONTAP storage operating system, found in the company's hardware, virtual appliance and cloud offerings, is the base on which NetApp's cloud strategy is being built, but partners are waiting for more details from the storage vendor.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Artisan Infrastructure Adds Cloud-Based Object Storage
  10:00 AM EST Wed. Aug. 21, 2013
  The company expands its wholesale IaaS offering, enabling MSPs and others to add cloud-based object storage as part of their solutions.
• Tech 10: Blockbusters In The Data Center
  10:00 AM EST Wed. Aug. 21, 2013
  The latest "Tech 10" list from CRN looks at the high-performance servers, chillin cooling equipment and other technologies making waves in the data center.
• 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.
• Amazon CEO Bezos Ponies Up $250M To Buy Struggling Washington Post
  8:14 PM EST Mon. Aug. 05, 2013
  Amazon founder and CEO, who's disrupting the retail, book publishing and cloud computing industries, has set his sights on the newspaper business.
• 15 Questions For HP CEO Meg Whitman
  2:00 PM EST Wed. Jul. 31, 2013
  HP CEO Meg Whitman sounds off on the uncertainty facing Dell, the interest in HP's Moonshot servers and why she would rather be the CEO of HP than the governor of California.
• 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.
• 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.