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Data Storage Services
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July 31, 2013
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Jul'13
Veeam announces investment and appointments
Veeam has struck a deal to get backing from a venture capital partner to fuel its next stage of growth
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July 26, 2013
26
Jul'13
Node4 plans regional data centre strategy
Data centre specialiust Node4 is planning to build two more data centres as it looks to provide greater regional coverage across the UK
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July 24, 2013
24
Jul'13
Cloud fuels VMware growth forecasts
VMware has indicated that it is expecting a strong second half of the year as more customers use its software as part of their moves to cloud environments
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July 22, 2013
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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
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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
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July 17, 2013
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Jul'13
IDC finds SMEs move to cloud could upset reseller relationships
IDC has cast its eye over the European SME market and found that as more budget heads to cloud, big data and mobile it could threaten existing reseller relationships
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July 12, 2013
12
Jul'13
Nutanix launches worldwide reseller programme
Datacentre infrastructure business formalises worldwide channel engagement to take advantage of continuing cloud and virtualisation growth
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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
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July 10, 2013
10
Jul'13
RES Software hires former Citrix staffer to run channel
RES Software is planning to expand its sales effort in the UK and has brought in a fresh face to head its channel efforts
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July 09, 2013
09
Jul'13
Slow storage market hits Brocade revenues
Networking firm Brocade blames SAN sales not meeting expectations for a revenue slide of 8% in its second quarter
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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
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June 13, 2013
13
Jun'13
MicroScope ACEs 2013: The winners
We reveal the full list of winners in the 2013 MicroScope ACEs
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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
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June 05, 2013
05
Jun'13
Virtual backup market heading for SME churn
Research from Veeam has revealed that many customers will change their choice of virtual backup tools next year
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May 31, 2013
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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
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May 29, 2013
29
May'13
GFI Software aims to grow business and channel sales following acquisition
GFI Software has swooped on Netherlands-based IASO, an online backup software company, to bolster its GFI MAX Remote Management business
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May 29, 2013
29
May'13
CMS gets Euro rights to Connected Data's 'Transporter'
CMS Distribution has acquired exclusive European distribution rights to cloud storage technology from US company Connected Data
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May 29, 2013
29
May'13
MicroScope’s top stories, week ending 18 May 2013
Our regular look back at the biggest ICT channel news stories of the past seven days, as selected by MicroScope readers
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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
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May 22, 2013
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May'13
Security fears holding back big data moves
Research from Voltage Security has revealed that customers are walking away from big data and cloud projects because of worries about security
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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
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May 20, 2013
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May'13
Veeam reaches out to tape users
Virtualisation backup specialist Veeam has reached out to tape users providing them with support for the first time with the latest version of its flagship product
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May 20, 2013
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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
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May 16, 2013
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May'13
Colt launches cloud storage service
Colt has taken the wraps off a cloud storage service that resellers can offer to customers looking to take advantage of putting their data into a hosted environment
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May 15, 2013
15
May'13
Veeam aims to rekindle channel spark
Veeam is looking to strengthen its channel and encourage more to embrace cloud storage solutions
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May 15, 2013
15
May'13
Embotics brings in Zycko after dropping Avnet
Virtualisation and cloud specialist Embotics has signed up Zycko to handle its products after taking the decision to part company with Avnet
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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
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May 13, 2013
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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
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May 13, 2013
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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
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May 10, 2013
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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
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May 07, 2013
07
May'13
Hockin launches storage distributor channelfusion
Bruce Hockin has launched a high-end focused storage distributor channelfusion
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April 29, 2013
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Apr'13
EVault launches cloud disaster recovery service in EMEA
Seagate-owned disaster recovery and backup specialist EVault has brought its Cloud Disaster Recovery (CDR) service across the Atlantic for the first time
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April 29, 2013
29
Apr'13
MicroScope's top stories, week ending 26 April 2013
Our regular look back at the biggest IT channel news stories from the past seven days, as selected by MicroScope readers
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April 26, 2013
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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
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April 25, 2013
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Apr'13
Phoenix shows off business continuity investment
Services house throws open day at revitalised Scottish facility to show customer and peers what’s under its kilt
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April 24, 2013
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Apr'13
Egnyte, NetApp offer channel double rebates in new partnership
File-sharing specialist Egnyte hopes offer will drive more NetApp partners into its arms
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April 23, 2013
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Apr'13
Zycko to run Aptare EMEA distribution
Storage software specialist goes two tier in EMEA with self-styled “market maker” VAD
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April 22, 2013
22
Apr'13
Tintri sets out to rearticulate channel vision
VM-aware storage specialist wants to re-educate its partners following a major product refresh
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April 22, 2013
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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
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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.
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April 11, 2013
11
Apr'13
Tandberg Data launches into own-brand NAS market
SME storage specialist says marketing its own NAS product will bring tighter integration with its portfolio and enhance the VAR experience
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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
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April 04, 2013
04
Apr'13
Enables IT chairman departs
Enables IT has confirmed the departure of its chairman thanking him for his involvement in the reverse takeover last year by Nexus Management
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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
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March 28, 2013
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Mar'13
Arrow close to completing virtualisation jigsaw
Arrow Electronics has been building up a portfolio of vendors that will support selling a virtualisation solution
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March 25, 2013
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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
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March 22, 2013
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Mar'13
QLogic set to expand channel to support caching SAN launch
QLogic is looking at expanding its channel as it takes the wraps off a SAN adapter range that should speed up performance in virtual environments
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March 22, 2013
22
Mar'13
Big data, cloud and virtualisation driving enterprise revenues
Big data, cloud and virtualisation technologies are driving enterprise revenues through distribution and have managed to offset the decline in server sales
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March 21, 2013
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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
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March 21, 2013
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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
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March 21, 2013
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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
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March 20, 2013
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Mar'13
Veeam adds rental licenses to cloud programme
Veeam has responded to market demand and added the option for rental licenses to its reseller cloud programme
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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
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March 04, 2013
04
Mar'13
Wick Hill fills thin client gap with Becrypt security lines
Wick Hill has added cybersecurity solutions specialist Becrypt to its vendor line-up enable it to better address thin client security and thus enable more effective BYOD policies among customers
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March 04, 2013
04
Mar'13
Backup failures costing firms thousands
Customers continue to understand the need for backup but are failing to use the right tools to ensure that they can restore information quickly according to Veeam
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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
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February 28, 2013
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Feb'13
Brocade pledges tighter channel integration
Brocade’s new EMEA channel chief Thomas Langkjaer has said he will seek to integrate more closely with partners
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February 18, 2013
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Feb'13
Brocade profits disappear into California coffers
Brocade has blamed changes to the tax code in its home state of California for a $21m (£13.5m) net loss, down from $54m in the previous quarter and $59m year-on-year
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February 15, 2013
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Feb'13
Barracuda management rejig to grow storage biz
Barracuda Networks has handed its former UK and Ireland country manager, Jason Howells, the post of UK and Ireland regional sales director in an attempt to drive more growth on the storage side of its business
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February 15, 2013
15
Feb'13
Vision aims at Citrix users with cloud disaster recovery
Vision Solutions is targeting the Citrix channel with a new line of cloud protection and recovery solutions, based on its Double-Take and MIMIX lines
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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
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February 05, 2013
05
Feb'13
Veeam enhances partner programme
Veeam has introduced a specialisation to its partner programme for the first time and beefed up the rewards on offer through its deal registration system
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February 04, 2013
04
Feb'13
Storage veteran Poulsen joins Datacore to grow UK buisness
A former senior executive from HDS and Brocade has joined Datacore as the storage virtualiusation vendor looks to grow business across Northern Europe
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February 04, 2013
04
Feb'13
MicroScope's top stories, week ending 1 February 2013
Our regular look back at the biggest channel news stories from the past seven days
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January 31, 2013
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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
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January 30, 2013
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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
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January 29, 2013
29
Jan'13
Cloud Distribution sinks claws into Talon
Cloud Distribution has signed an exclusive UK distie partnership with next-gen storage and application delivery software firm Talon
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January 29, 2013
29
Jan'13
VMware cuts staff to boost bottom line
VMware is to lay off 900 staff, mostly in non-core functions, as the virtualisation giant seeks to breathe new life into flat profits
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January 28, 2013
28
Jan'13
Phoenix claims UK first with cloud-to-cloud backup service
Phoenix IT Group has launched the UK’s first cloud-to-cloud backup service to the local market, targeting Salesforce customers
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January 25, 2013
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Jan'13
Embotics targets VMware customers with upgrade offer
Embotics has targeted VMware customers with an upgrade offer that is designed to appeal to those facing end of life support
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January 23, 2013
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Jan'13
Acronis hooks Powles as new UK MD
Acronis has named Rick Powles as its new UK and Ireland managing director and tasked him with reinvigorating its channel strategies to take account of growth in virtualised and cloud storage environments, and consumerisation
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January 22, 2013
22
Jan'13
Veeam thanks channel as customer base grows
Veeam has realeased an insight into its performance last year thanking the channel for helping it add thousands of new customers
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January 22, 2013
22
Jan'13
Mimecast hires new Euro channel team
Mimecast has snapped up Microsoft's Phil Atkinson and HP's Andrew Duce to bulk up its European channel team
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January 17, 2013
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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
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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)
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January 09, 2013
09
Jan'13
HP introduces big data channel certification
HP has launched a big data certification for channel partners supporting its Vertica Analytics Platform as it looks to develop reseller skills in the market
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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
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January 07, 2013
07
Jan'13
Hammer joins DataCore Software distie line-up
Storage virtualisation specialist DataCore Software has added Hammer to its UK distribution roster, ending its exclusive tie-up with Avnet
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January 07, 2013
07
Jan'13
Rebooted CMS to sell Western Digital SME NAS kit
Just days after ditching its CMS Peripherals moniker, newly-renamed CMS Distribution has signed on to sell Western Digital’s SME network attached storage (NAS) hardware
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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
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January 04, 2013
04
Jan'13
Lenovo, EMC fomalise NAS joint venture
Lenovo and EMC have completed the formation of a new joint venture, LenovoEMC, incorporating EMC’s Iomega assets to offer co-branded network attached storage (NAS) to business customers
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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%
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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
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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
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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
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December 11, 2012
11
Dec'12
Deduplication and archiving helping to cut storage costs
Deduplication and archiving technologies are helping storage resellers shave costs off their customer's bills even more than cloud and virtualisation
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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November 21, 2012
21
Nov'12
AVG exceeds reseller cloud ambitions
AVG has signed up three times as many resellers as it aimed for to sell its CloudCare platform
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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