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• July 22, 2013 22 Jul'13

  MicroScope's top stories, week ending 19 July 2013

  Adopting cloud could make midsized businesses more competitive; Computacenter UK sitting pretty; and Avnet and Arrow land IBM training role, in our regular look back at last week's big stories

• July 19, 2013 19 Jul'13

  Pure Storage turns to channel for flash advice

  Flash storage array vendor Pure Storage has formed a Partner Advisory Council and added a number of programme enhancements

• July 12, 2013 12 Jul'13

  EMC strengthens Flash capabilities with ScaleIO

  Following its purchase of identity management firm Aveksa, Flash software firm ScaleIO becomes the latest addition to EMC’s portfolio

• June 14, 2013 14 Jun'13

  Entatech nabs five from Northamber to run Surrey base

  Telford-based distie populates new Leatherhead office with ex-Northamber staffers as it bids to ramp up its nationwide scale

• June 13, 2013 13 Jun'13

  MicroScope ACEs 2013: The winners

  We reveal the full list of winners in the 2013 MicroScope ACEs

• June 10, 2013 10 Jun'13

  Channel needs to keep eye on data centre costs

  Building data centres and packing them full of customers might not be the ideal long term strategy according to Romonet

• May 31, 2013 31 May'13

  Reddin latest addition to growing channelfusion team

  Former Avnet man Grant Reddin heads to storage start-up to add partner, vendor management nous

• May 24, 2013 24 May'13

  HDD market returns to normality post-floods

  An update from HDD specialist HGST has revealed that the market is back to normal after the floods but also indicated that some are finding it hard to readjust

• May 22, 2013 22 May'13

  NetApp swings the axe on 900 staff

  NetApp has revealed it plans to cut 900 staff from its worldwide roster as it restructures following a mixed fiscal year

• May 20, 2013 20 May'13

  MicroScope's top stories, week ending 17 May 2013

  Our regular look back at the most important IT channel news stories from the past seven days, as selected by MicroScope readers

• May 14, 2013 14 May'13

  Azlan inks distribution deal with EMC

  Azlan has been signed by EMC with a brief to grow the SME and mid-market for the storage vendor

• May 13, 2013 13 May'13

  Dell launches online solutions calculator, adds discount fund

  Dell will make $5m worth of discounts available to partners to mark latest programme launch

• May 13, 2013 13 May'13

  MicroScope's top stories, week ending 10 May 2013

  Our regular look back at the most important ICT channel stories from the past seven days, as selected by MicroScope readers

• May 10, 2013 10 May'13

  Two vendor signings expand Hammer portfolio

  Quanta and Promise Technology join storage VAD’s line-up, bringing new OEM and vertical options to the channel

• May 07, 2013 07 May'13

  Hockin launches storage distributor channelfusion

  Bruce Hockin has launched a high-end focused storage distributor channelfusion

• April 26, 2013 26 Apr'13

  Azlan aims to swell reseller numbers

  As it looks to complete integration with the SDG operations Azlan is also planning to widen the numbers of resellers it works with

• April 22, 2013 22 Apr'13

  KPMG warns Big Data benefits eluding most customers

  There are very few firms that have really got their big data systems lined up to deliver valuable information according to KPMG

• April 12, 2013 12 Apr'13

  LaCie appoints Beta Distribution

  Digital storage vendor LaCie has announced its appointment of Beta Distribution as an authorised distributor in the UK.

• April 08, 2013 08 Apr'13

  MicroScope's top stories, week ending 5 April 2013

  Our regular look back at the most important channel news stories from the past seven days, as selected by MicroScope readers

• April 03, 2013 03 Apr'13

  Big data not just an enterprise sale

  The evidence is mounting that big data is not just a sale that resellers should be pitching to large customers with small firms also set to get something out of the technology

• March 25, 2013 25 Mar'13

  MicroScope's top stories, week ending 22 March 2013

  Our regular look back at the top channel news stories from the past seven days, as selected by MicroScope.co.uk readers

• March 21, 2013 21 Mar'13

  Pure Storage has high hopes for EMEA flash market

  Flash storage specialist Pure Storage has formally launched in EMEA and vowed to take on disk giants EMC and NetApp

• March 21, 2013 21 Mar'13

  More education needed around SME big data pitch

  As big data becomes a phrase being used more often in the SME market the need for greater education and products designed for smaller firms has been highlighted

• March 21, 2013 21 Mar'13

  Disk storage growth anaemic, says Gartner

  Economic headwinds are battering the external controller-based disk storage market, which saw sluggish growth in the last quarter of 2012

• March 11, 2013 11 Mar'13

  MicroScope's top stories, week ending 8 March 2013

  Our regular look back at the most important IT channel news stories from the past seven days as selected by MicroScope readers

• March 04, 2013 04 Mar'13

  Micro-P handed VAD status on storage line by Dell

  Micro-P has been appointed a value added distributor by Dell with the rights to handle the vendor's storage line as both parties look to grow enterprise channel business

• February 14, 2013 14 Feb'13

  Big data demand boosts NetApp income

  Big data demand and increasing use of flash-based storage helped NetApp deliver a solid set of Q3 numbers

• January 31, 2013 31 Jan'13

  SSD market consolidation expected

  The SSD market is expected to undergo some shrinkage as consolidation starts to whittle down the current large number of players in the market

• January 30, 2013 30 Jan'13

  EMC expects customers will start spending again

  EMC has given a cautiously optimistic forecast for 2013 as it expects some frozen IT spending to be thawed as customers invest in cloud and big data

• January 17, 2013 17 Jan'13

  Fujitsu hardware business plans aggressive 2013

  Following a year of substantial growth within its channel organisation, Fujitsu has said it will look to build bridges with the great and the good of the channel in 2013, as well as aggressively going after its rivals’ market share

• January 10, 2013 10 Jan'13

  Big data growth to exceed 30%, says IDC

  Analysts at IDC reckon the market for big data technology and services will see compound annual growth of 31.7% through to 2016, when sales could hit $23.8bn (£14.8bn)

• January 08, 2013 08 Jan'13

  Dell extends enterprise storage discounts to February

  Dell's enterprise storage discount offer will be extended to the end of the month

• January 07, 2013 07 Jan'13

  DAS popularity levels set to increase

  Direct Attached Storage (DAS) sales should rise this year as major vendors put their muscle behind promoting the technology

• January 03, 2013 03 Jan'13

  Gartner: global ICT spend up 4.2% in 2013

  Gartner has predicted that global ICT spending will grow by 4.2% to reach $3.7tn (£2.3tn) during 2013, up from its previous forecast of 3.8%

• December 17, 2012 17 Dec'12

  MicroScope's top stories, week ending 14 December 2012

  Our regular look back at the most important channel news stories from the past seven days

• December 13, 2012 13 Dec'12

  Micro-P raids Azlan for network, comms talent

  Micro-P has appointed Azlan’s HP Networking business manager Gavin O’Shea as its new general manager of networking and communications

• December 11, 2012 11 Dec'12

  EMC to keep up channel momentum into 2013

  EMC will look to build on what has been a transformative 2012 for its channel during the next 12 months, with the addition of new, deeper sales training options, among other things

• December 10, 2012 10 Dec'12

  MicroScope's top stories, week ending 7 December 2012

  Our regular look back at some of the most widely read channel news stories from the past seven days

• December 06, 2012 06 Dec'12

  Magirus, Avnet TS first to claim VSPEX assembly badge in EMEA

  Magirus, and by extension its new owner Avnet Technology Solutions (ATS), has become the first European distie to bag the EMC VSPEX Assembly Services Capability badge

• December 04, 2012 04 Dec'12

  HP aims to open up mid market for storage resellers

  HP has thrown down the gauntlet to rivals in the storage space claiming that it now has the product set to open up the mid-market for resellers

• November 29, 2012 29 Nov'12

  Acronis positions itself as BYOD and big data player

  The CEO of Acronis Alex Pinchev shares his experiences running the storage player over the last year and what he expects 2013 to bring

• November 27, 2012 27 Nov'12

  Quantum extends big data team

  Quantum has extended its big data team as it looks to ramp up the volume of business it enjoys in that side of that market in Europe

• November 26, 2012 26 Nov'12

  MicroScope's top stories, week ending 23 November 2012

  Our regular look back at the most read stories on MicroScope.co.uk from the past seven days

• November 22, 2012 22 Nov'12

  HP lab latest addition to Azlan partner arsenal

  C2000 enterprise unit Azlan is to set up a dedicated HP lab around its infrastructure solutions to give partners a dedicated training, building, testing and design resource

• November 20, 2012 20 Nov'12

  Comstor to offer Cisco, NetApp ExpressPod to SME market

  Westcon Group’s Cisco specialist unit, Comstor, has added Cisco and NetApp’s latest cloud platform, ExpressPod, to its channel line-up to help partners break into the SME cloud market

• November 19, 2012 19 Nov'12

  Buffalo worried SMEs at risk using consumer storage

  Buffalo has found that SMEs might know about the importance of looking after data but are quite happy to use external hard drives and USB sticks to store information

• November 19, 2012 19 Nov'12

  Data centre focus to move onto sustainability

  Those selling data centre technology and services will find that the focus sharpens next year around sustainability issues as customers look to control costs

• November 16, 2012 16 Nov'12

  Fujitsu targets top partners with storage drive

  Fujitsu has launched a sweeping channel programme and end-user campaigns to grow sales for its ETERNUS storage technology

• November 16, 2012 16 Nov'12

  Dell profits collapse as PC spend dries up

  Dell’s net profits have almost halved after another dismal quarter in the PC sector, slumping 47% to $475m (£300m) on sales of $13.7bn, down 11% on the year-ago quarter

• November 15, 2012 15 Nov'12

  NetApp boss thanks distributors for revenue efforts

  NetApp's CEO has thanked distributors for helping it keep revenues stable in its second fiscal quarter as the storage specialist kept its numbers in line with expectations

• November 14, 2012 14 Nov'12

  Dell hands Xmas storage discount to partners

  Dell has used the opening day of its EMEA Storage Forum in Paris to show off several new support initiatives including a special discount fund of $10m (£6.3m) on enterprise solutions

• November 08, 2012 08 Nov'12

  Iomega turns gaze on surveillance market

  Iomega is looking to exploit the move by the market away from analogue CCTV cameras to IP based technology with a NAS bundle for partners

• November 07, 2012 07 Nov'12

  CommVault launches European reseller support centre

  Storage specialist CommVault has opened a reseller support centre in its Reading HQ that will serve partners across EMEA

• November 01, 2012 01 Nov'12

  EMC tempts VARs to make service provider transition

  EMC has refurbished its cloud-centric Velocity Service Provider Programme, announcing a new scheme that will enable VARs to make the leap up from its Solution Provider community

• October 25, 2012 25 Oct'12

  Tape revenue drop hits Quantum numbers

  Storage specialist Quantum has reported second quarter results that included net losses as a result of lower demand for tape products

• October 24, 2012 24 Oct'12

  Datacentre traffic will grow four times by 2016, predicts Cisco

  Global datacentre traffic will grow four times by 2016 to reach a total of 6.6 zettabytes annually, Cisco Systems’ Global Cloud Index has forecast

• October 19, 2012 19 Oct'12

  Skills gap holding back big data moves

  IBM has carried out an extensive survey of the state of the UK market in relation to big data discovering that a skills gap is holding back some customers

• October 18, 2012 18 Oct'12

  Big data on the move

  SAP has discovered that there is more of an acceptance of the value of big data but its full potential could be undermined as employees struggle to make full use of big data tools

• October 05, 2012 05 Oct'12

  Server market to grow despite maturity as datacentres, tablet use rises: Gartner

  Although the server market is mature it will experience strong growth through to 2015 as large customers such as Google, Amazon and Facebook fuel datacentre growth

• October 01, 2012 01 Oct'12

  Wick Hill adds Imation storage kit to SME offering

  Wick Hill has signed on to distribute Imation’s RDX removable hard disk storage and DataGuard NAS backup appliances in a nod to exponential growth in SME data storage requirements

• October 01, 2012 01 Oct'12

  MicroScope's top stories, week ending 28 September 2012

  Our regular look back at the most popular news stories from the past seven days on MicroScope.co.uk

• September 28, 2012 28 Sep'12

  Ultrabook makers gobble up HDD supplies

  A growing appetite for ultrabook PCs is currently helping to boost the hard disk drive (HDD) supply market to record levels, according to analysts at IHS

• September 24, 2012 24 Sep'12

  Fujitsu, Arrow ECS to offer virtualised backup bundles

  Fujitsu has teamed up with Arrow ECS to launch a line of solutions designed to help resellers address end-user virtualised backup scenarios

• September 24, 2012 24 Sep'12

  MicroScope's top stories, week ending 21 September 2012

  Our regular look back at the most read stories from the past week on MicroScope.co.uk

• September 17, 2012 17 Sep'12

  Data centre complexity a growing problem

  The latest state of the nation report from Symantec has discovered that customers are struggling to cope with increasing data centre complexity

• September 17, 2012 17 Sep'12

  MicroScope's top stories, week ending 14 September 2012

  Our regular rundown of the most read stories of the past week on MicroScope.co.uk

• September 14, 2012 14 Sep'12

  HDD or SSD debate heads to the cloud

  The appeal of solid state drives is something that cloud providers are going to have to start thinking more about as customers look for quick performance options

• September 12, 2012 12 Sep'12

  Salford City Council offers cloud service to local businesses

  Salford City Council will offer a private cloud service to local businesses through a partnership with ANS Group

• September 12, 2012 12 Sep'12

  Customers ramp up cloud and big data moves

  An EMC survey of customers has found that the next twelve months will be ones of IT transformation with an increasing number of firms embracing cloud and big data

• September 11, 2012 11 Sep'12

  EMC UK boss vows to boost channel sales

  Storage giant EMC has told resellers at its Forum event in London that it will only sell to 150 accounts direct and its own staff will be penalised for targeting channel customers

• September 07, 2012 07 Sep'12

  ECB disk storage grows slower than hoped

  Gartner’s data on the global external controller-based (ECB) disk storage market show that sector growth is falling short of previous expectations

• September 07, 2012 07 Sep'12

  Channel interest helps NetApp extend cycling deal

  NetApp has highlighted the channel's interest and support of cycling as one of the primary reasons it is extending its sponsorship of its professional team

• September 05, 2012 05 Sep'12

  Tech Data pounces on SDG in £219m deal

  Tech Data has swallowed up SCH’s distribution business, SDG, in a deal valued at around £219m to augment its enterprise distribution unit, Azlan and strengthen its wider broadline capabilities.

• September 03, 2012 03 Sep'12

  MicroScope's top stories, week ending 31 August 2012

  Our weekly run down of the top 10 most read stories on MicroScope.co.uk.

• August 30, 2012 30 Aug'12

  2e2 duets with Violin Memory

  2e2 has partnered up with flash memory vendor Violin Memory to help its customers access flash memory arrays.

• August 29, 2012 29 Aug'12

  Thai floods just a memory for resurgent WD

  Six months after losing its hard disk drive crown to Seagate when its Thai facilities were flooded, Western Digital (WD) is again sitting pretty on top of the global hard disk drive market.

• August 29, 2012 29 Aug'12

  ANS proclaims i3 FlexPod architecture massive success

  Manchester-based services provider ANS Group has proclaimed its Infrastructure 3.0 (i3) proposition a rip-roaring success after powering to record profits and sales during the financial year ending 31 March.

• August 28, 2012 28 Aug'12

  ISO accreditation for CompTIA and SNIA

  IT skills certification provider, CompTIA, and the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) have had their CompTIA Storage+ powered by SNIA certification accredited by the ISO.

• August 23, 2012 23 Aug'12

  HP plunges to $8.9bn loss

  Hewlett-Packard has posted an enormous $8.9bn (£5.6bn) loss in the third quarter of its fiscal 2012.

• August 22, 2012 22 Aug'12

  Dell taps HP’s Haas as PC revenues fade fast

  In a clear signal of its future intentions Dell has hired ex-HP Networking boss Marius Haas to run its enterprise unit, as its PC business struggles.

• August 17, 2012 17 Aug'12

  Brocade boss bails on a high

  Longstanding Brocade CEO Michael Klayko has decided to call it a day after the networking and storage firm posted across the board rises in sales and operating and net profit.

• August 16, 2012 16 Aug'12

  NetApp numbers dip as weak economy takes its toll

  NetApp has been a victim of ongoing economic uncertianty with its numbers hitting guidance but being short of the sort of income it was delivering last year

• August 15, 2012 15 Aug'12

  EMC offers disties assembly role

  EMC is offering distribution partners the chance to become authorised assembly centres for some of its storage, backup and data deduplication products

• August 09, 2012 09 Aug'12

  Weak Europe hurts Avnet

  Weak economic conditions across EMEA hit Avnet in the second half of the distributor's fiscal year

• July 23, 2012 23 Jul'12

  Infortrend announces another reach to SME Market

  Infortrend continues to expand its channel line-up adding CCI Disribution to its roster

• July 20, 2012 20 Jul'12

  Fujitsu boosts channel team with new appointment

  Fujitsu has hired a former HDS executive to develop reseller relationships and help drive its channel growth

• July 18, 2012 18 Jul'12

  EMC shuffles board to look for growth

  EMC has moved the head of VMware and promoted its CFO as it looks to get more growth and keep the storage and virtualisation vendor on track to meet its targets

• July 18, 2012 18 Jul'12

  Huge investment needed for connected devices boom

  Brocade has warned that significant data centre investment is needed to support the explosion in connected devices

• July 17, 2012 17 Jul'12

  Big Data and environment policies impact Datacentres

  Some of the challenges facing those running data centres have been revealed by surveys highlighting the problems posed by high volumes of data and green legislation

• July 11, 2012 11 Jul'12

  Avere plans for UK growth with VC backing

  NAS optimisation specialist Avere Systems plans to grow its UK operations and recruit more resellers after its latest $20m round of VC funding

• July 10, 2012 10 Jul'12

  Western Digital urges VARs to sell beyond HDD price, capacity

  Western Digital is promising to address some of the channel’s frustrations around being able to effectively market HDD technology.

• July 02, 2012 02 Jul'12

  Avnet polishes off Magirus

  Five years after it bought its enterprise IT distribution business, Avnet has returned to the table to acquire the remainder of datacentre solutions distributor Magirus.

• July 02, 2012 02 Jul'12

  Avnet makes cuts in the North

  Avnet Technology Solutions is set to close its Leeds office as it consolidates its Northern operations and has announced that Paul Cook is stepping down from his general sales role.

• June 26, 2012 26 Jun'12

  Comstor plants flag in Cisco, NetApp FlexPod environment

  Cisco-specialist Comstor has revealed it is to sell Cisco and NetApp's FlexPod datacentre architecture in EMEA after being handed distribution rights to the converged networking, server and storage solution.

• June 19, 2012 19 Jun'12

  Prosumer networkers new target for Western Digital

  Storage vendor Western Digital (WD) has stepped outside its traditional comfort zone after launching a new line of high-end prosumer-targeted routing equipment, dubbed My Net.

• June 14, 2012 14 Jun'12

  Dell to channel: resistance is futile

  Michael Dell has said that Dell's portfolio has grown so broad that there is now "not a question" of whether or not resellers are going to have a relationship with it but "a question of when and how".