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• 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.
• 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.
• Done Deal: Michael Dell Wins Buyout Vote
  10:40 AM EST Thu. Sep. 12, 2013
  Michael Dell prevails in $24.8 billion leverage buyout in bruising yearlong battle against corporate raider Carl Icahn to take his company private and remake it as an end-to-end business solutions provider.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Veeam Wants To Move Beyond Backup And Replication, Sets $1B Revenue Target
  7:52 PM EST Fri. Aug. 09, 2013
  Veeam brings in Insight Venture Partners to help it move past core backup and replication business and hit $1 billion in revenue within the next five years.
• EMC Product Road Map: Updates On XtremIO, VNX 2 And ViPR
  4:13 PM EST Fri. Jul. 26, 2013
  EMC used this week's second fiscal quarter 2013 conference call to provide updates on upcoming product launches including its XtremIO all-flash storage array, VNX unified storage and software-defined storage offerings including ViPR.
• The 10 Coolest Flash Storage Products Of 2013 (So Far)
  10:00 AM EST Thu. Jul. 18, 2013
  From tiny embedded flash storage memory modules to fully-configured all-flash arrays, the storage industry in the first half of 2013 was subjected to a barrage of new hardware and software promising increased performance for mission-critical applications.
• Software To Propel 2013's Global IT Spend To $2.06 Trillion, Forrester Says
  11:10 AM EST Wed. Jul. 17, 2013
  Software will account for the largest piece of the worldwide IT spending pie with an anticipated $542 billion -- driven in large part by application spending, which is expected to reach about $234.6 billion.
• HDS Revs Up Storage Line With Flash Acceleration
  10:30 AM EST Wed. Jul. 17, 2013
  HDS enhances its midrange Hitachi Unified Storage VM storage platform with flash acceleration cards and a new operating system to give it significantly increased performance.
• 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.
• EMC Acquiring ScaleIO In Massive Cloud, Software-Defined Storage Play
  7:24 PM EST Thu. Jul. 11, 2013
  The planned acquisition of ScaleIO by EMC will give EMC the opportunity to take advantage of the ScaleIO Elastic Converged Storage (ECS) technology to help customers and partners build private clouds with the flexibility and scalability of public clouds.
• 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.