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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
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
Terremark gains an immediate route to market in storage backup services with the $11.5 million acquisition of DS3 DataVaulting.
November 13, 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
In its second acquisition move this month, storage VAR Datalink has agreed to acquire the reseller business of Incentra, giving it an expanded geography and storage and server business and sending Incentra back to its MSP roots.
October 26, 2009
Quantum aims both at midmarket customers and at rival Data Domain's business with its new DXi6500 family of storage appliances.
October 22, 2009
EMC, in its quarterly earnings report, said it would depend less on Dell as a reseller, and increasingly turn to partners for indirect sales.
October 22, 2009
Seagate's hard drive shipments during its fiscal first quarter, which ended Oct. 2, were down about 9 percent compared to last year. But cost-cutting measures help bring up profitability.
October 20, 2009
IBM's VAR partners said the new SSDs will make a big difference in terms of storage performance and meeting customers' future requirements.
October 16, 2009
The new Iomega ix2-200 NAS appliance, priced at about $700 with 4 TB of storage, works in SOHO, small business and "pro-sumer" environments.
October 08, 2009
Company also debuts Information Archive data repository appliance for storing structured and unstructured data.
October 07, 2009
Datalink bought the networking expertise and the related seven-person team from solution provider Cross Telecom in order to get ready for storage-IP networking convergence and virtual data centers.
October 06, 2009
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