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Data Storage Services

• July 21, 2008 21 Jul'08

  Demystifying data deduplication

  When it comes to data deduplication technology the opportunities for resellers are clear - provided they present it and match it to their customers' needs effectively.

• July 15, 2008 15 Jul'08

  Hitachi Data Systems hands rebate power to resellers

  Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has decentralised its global payment model and given local resellers more say on the mix of rebate and marketing funding they receive. But under the changes distributors will lose out on channel development compensation as...

• July 04, 2008 04 Jul'08

  Logicalis aims to boost mainframe business

  Logicalis has made a bid to ramp up its mainframe computing business with the launch of an IBM System z Test Environment at its Innovation Centre.

• July 03, 2008 03 Jul'08

  Seagate pumps cash into Derry plant

  Hard-disk vendor Seagate has responded to ever-increasing global demand for digital storage by injecting £120m into its Springbank facility in Northern Ireland.

• June 30, 2008 30 Jun'08

  Margirus calls more more intelligent sales from resellers

  Magirus has used its appointment as a CommVault distributor to warn resellers that in the current climate it is vital they sell storage more intelligently or risk losing the attention of customers.

• June 30, 2008 30 Jun'08

  Overland Storage snaps up Adapteq NAS operation

  Overland Storage has acquired the Snap Server NAS business from Adapted for $3.6m (£1.8m) with $2.1m paid upfront in the cash and the rest settled within 12 months.

• April 15, 2008 15 Apr'08

  SSD frenzy grips vendors

  Maybe the Storage Networking World (SNW) event in Orlando has been the spark but the storage hardware inventiveness index has suddenly rocketed. A drive array was a drive array was a drive array was the rule.

• April 14, 2008 14 Apr'08

  Brocade aims high

  In the wake of last month's imprisonment of its former human resources chief Stephanie Jensen — for backdating and falsifying corporate records between 2000 and 2004 — storage vendor Brocade has come out fighting and reaffirmed ambitious growth ...

• April 14, 2008 14 Apr'08

  Bright future for virtualisation

  With the credit crunch looming, resellers are understandably keen to get any advice on product areas that can withstand budget cuts.

• April 09, 2008 09 Apr'08

  Virtualisation market poised for growth

  Growing IT labour costs coupled with concerns around reliability and performance will make the market for storage virtualisation continue its solid growth rate, according to a survey by F5 Networks.

• April 04, 2008 04 Apr'08

  De-duplication can boost performance

  De-duplication in itself is easy to understand – optimised storage capacity usage by eliminating duplicated data. However the devil is in understanding the different technologies, techniques and implementations in the market and relating these to ...

• April 03, 2008 03 Apr'08

  Blu-ray in the ascendant as 2.5in drives on the horizon

  There have been numerous product launches around the flash arena and that trend is set to continue with the introduction of smaller drives writes Chris Mellor. 2.5 inch drive surge coming. Xyratex has announced one of the first mainstream 2.5-inch ...

• April 02, 2008 02 Apr'08

  Frenzy in storage market as data growth casts shadow

  It was flash, bang, wallop in the first three months of this year. The major storage firms exploded bombs en route to making sure they grow and prosper as crazy file storage growth threatens to overwhelm datacentres.

• March 24, 2008 24 Mar'08

  Could a recession be the answer?

  An incoming company is bright eyed and bushy tailed at one end of the tape market, while another at the opposite end is almost at its wits end as it struggles to avoid bankruptcy. What is going on? The tape world is supposed to be in trouble.

• March 17, 2008 17 Mar'08

  Bright future for storage

  Storage resellers looking for research that will back up their anecdotal evidence that customers are facing greater problems will draw considerable comfort from EMC's latest thoughts on the subject.