The reorganization of its international operations gave EMC a chance to send $4 billion in cash and stock to the U.S. headquarters where it could be used for, among other things, possible acquisitions.
November 25, 2009
Rackspace's move to broaden its presence in cloud computing gets a boost from its new online storage offering, which beats two of its biggest rivals in this space.
November 25, 2009
The acquisition last December of Foundry has made Brocade, long a mainstay in the storage network industry, a new force to be reckoned with in the Ethernet networking market.
November 23, 2009
Services and financial services did well in HP's fourth fiscal quarter, but the company was dragged down by hardware and software sales. Next year, however, the company should see a rebound, HP said.
November 23, 2009
Data Robotics' new DroboElite, a follow-on product to the DroboPro released to SMB channel partners earlier this year, can be used as a low-cost way to add iSCSI SAN capabilities.
November 23, 2009
Data Robotics' Drobo S, a new RAID storage device and an upgrade to its existing Drobo device, provides 50 percent faster data transfer, according to the company.
November 23, 2009
The Axxana Phoenix System helps organizations achieve zero-data-loss disaster recovery without distance limits in a cost-effective manner when compared with traditional mirroring.
November 18, 2009
Riverbed said it plans to unveil a virtual version of its Steelhead WAN acceleration appliance and a virtual iSCSI storage product for accessing applications and data on public cloud computing infrastructures.
November 18, 2009
Quantum is positioning its new Scalar i40 and i80 tape libraries as the channel alternative to libraries currently on the market, which it says competitors OEM from the same vendor.
November 17, 2009
Small business backups are tough, but 3X Systems enables solution providers to build a mini storage cloud with a new backup appliance that keeps up with mobile and desktop PCs.
November 17, 2009
Terremark gains an immediate route to market in storage backup services with the $11.5 million acquisition of DS3 DataVaulting.
November 13, 2009
LG Electronics has delivered what reviewers believe is a thumbs-up approach that could provide small or midsize businesses with another weapon in data storage and backup. The LG Blu-ray NAS N4B1N combines the network connectivity and capacity of a network-attached storage (NAS) device with the flexibility of Blu-ray backup capability. The result: a unique approach to network storage that provides two ways to protect valuable data.
November 11, 2009
ProStor is increasing the capacity of its RDX removable hard drives to 640 GB this year and 1TB next year, and says the cartridges are a better choice than tape for archiving.
November 10, 2009
Datalink recently acquired the Cisco networking business from Cross Telecom, and executives of the two solution providers explain how Cisco strategies were a big factor in their decision-making process.
November 06, 2009
Brocade unveiled a number of configurations to improve storage performance in Oracle VM virtualization deployments, as well as solutions with partners such as EMC, NetApp, HP, and Sun for database and data warehousing deployments.
November 06, 2009
Channel partners of Cisco, EMC, and VMware praise the vendors' Vblock blueprints for building virtual data centers and private computing clouds but want more information.
November 04, 2009
Arkeia snaps up Kadena to give it source-side dedupe technology to go with its backup software, giving the company a more complete offering for solution providers.
November 03, 2009
The companies' new Vblock packages are 'validated architectures to let partners bring our technologies to market,' says EMC's Mitch Breen.
November 03, 2009
Crux of the partnership is Vblock, a product set that includes Cisco UCS, EMC storage, RSA security and VMware Vsphere.
November 03, 2009
NetApp President and CEO Tom Georgens recently sat down with Channelweb.com to answer storage solution provider concerns about the channel, the cloud and the competition.
November 02, 2009