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Data Storage Services

• 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 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

• 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 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

• 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 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

• 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 13, 2012 13 Nov'12

  Avnet adds Riverbed support to WAN services line-up

  Avnet Technology Solutions has picked up Riverbed Authorised Support Partner (RASP) status, meaning it can now offer round-the-clock support to Riverbed WAN optimisation resellers in the UK

• 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 31, 2012 31 Oct'12

  Dot Hill hopes to woo channel

  SAN storage vendor, Dot Hill Systems, is attempting to drive the adoption of its AssuredSAN storage products by launching try-and-buy and trade-in programmes

• October 31, 2012 31 Oct'12

  'VM-aware' viruses on the rise

  Viruses targeting virtual machines (VMs) are growing in numbers and will soon be the dominant force in the world of cyber crime, says Kaspersky

• 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 23, 2012 23 Oct'12

  Veeam signs up 1000th partner

  Virtualisation specialist Veeam has reached 1000 partners in the UK as it continues to build its channel base looking to recruit more Microsoft resellers

• October 22, 2012 22 Oct'12

  MicroScope's top stories, week ending 19 October 2012

  Our regular look back at the most popular ICT channel news stories from the past week

• 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 17, 2012 17 Oct'12

  CA appoints Hammer to handle data protection line

  CA Technologies has added Hammer to its distribution roster giving the storage specialist responsibility for its ARCserve product

• October 16, 2012 16 Oct'12

  VDI in a box re-engages Citrix channel

  Citrix has found its VDI in a box solution has been a way of opening doors with partners and to rebuild its channel after it pruned it back last year

• October 11, 2012 11 Oct'12

  Acronis looks to build channel post GroupLogic purchase

  Acronis has sounded the call for more resellers to get on board as it looks to build up its channel operations after the acquisition of GroupLogic

• October 11, 2012 11 Oct'12

  Government Digital Service hands SCC G-Cloud hosting contract

  SCC has revealed it has been awarded the G-Cloud services contract to provide the UK Government Digital Service (GDS) with hosting solutions and services

• October 09, 2012 09 Oct'12

  VMworld Europe: Tintri signs Arrow ECS in EMEA

  VM-aware storage platform specialist Tintri has announced the signing of a pan-European distribution contract with Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions (ECS) at VMworld Europe 2012 in Barcelona

• October 09, 2012 09 Oct'12

  VMworld Europe: Colt adds backup, disaster recovery services to vCloud

  Cloud and network provider Colt Technology Services has added backup and disaster recovery services to its vCloud services platform in response to channel and customer demand

• October 08, 2012 08 Oct'12

  Storage bottleneck should be concern for VMworld partners, says Avere

  As VMworld Europe 2012 begins in Barcelona, NAS specialist Avere has warned that storage ‘bottlenecks’ in virtualised systems are becoming a serious worry

• October 05, 2012 05 Oct'12

  Greater investment needed to reap virtualisation ROI

  Resellers should be advising customers to build on their virtualisation investments if they want to achieve greater return on the expenditure they have made on the technology

• 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 02, 2012 02 Oct'12

  Cloud Distribution sets the Ball rolling

  Value added distie Cloud Distribution has named network veteran James Ball as its technical manager as it seeks to capitalise on its recent growth and move up “to the next level”

• October 02, 2012 02 Oct'12

  Embotics sets out channel growth ambitions

  Virtualisation and cloud specialist Embotics has recruited an EMEA vice president who plans to use a two-tier channel model in the UK to drive growth plans

• 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 26, 2012 26 Sep'12

  Acronis plans strategy shift to meet BYOD challenge

  Acronis has hired a former Red Hat executive to help it change strategy and move beyond its core backup and recovery markets

• 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 19, 2012 19 Sep'12

  Mozy looks for SME growth with Arrow ECS

  Online storage specialist Mozy has expanded on its relationship with Arrow ECS getting the distributor to grow its share in the SME market

• 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

  Veeam gets evangelical about branding

  Virtualisation specialist Veeam is using an EMEA evangelist position to get the message out about its branding and to increase the support for partners

• 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 14, 2012 14 Aug'12

  SMEs in ICO firing line

  Small firms could be caught out by a more aggressive Information Commissioners Office if they fail to look after their data and customer information securely

• 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

• August 01, 2012 01 Aug'12

  NAS product of choice on storage front

  TechTarget research has revealed that NAS remains the most popular storage hardware for customers

• July 26, 2012 26 Jul'12

  Symantec calls time on Salem's stint as CEO

  Symantec has changed its CEO as it looks to take the firm forward after reporting just a single percent increase in revenue for its first fiscal quarter

• July 25, 2012 25 Jul'12

  Fujitsu raises the bar for virtual desktop

  Fujitsu has made the move to offer resellers higher margins on its FUTRO range of thin clients

• 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 17, 2012 17 Jul'12

  Infortrend takes on Hypertec to grow SME market

  Infortrend has appointed distributor Hypertec to sell its NAS products into the SME market to take advantage of strong demand from that customer base

• 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 10, 2012 10 Jul'12

  XOR hires Breen to drive growth

  XOR Professional Services has hired former Azlan executive Joe Breen to drive its partner sales and help it meet ambitious growth targets

• July 10, 2012 10 Jul'12

  On Direct powers up cloud services expansion

  Cloud services provider On Direct has embarked on a partner recruitment drive as it prepares to deliver a series of enhancements to its Cloud Direct offering.

• 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 29, 2012 29 Jun'12

  The cloud pitch should be slow and steady

  Resellers selling cloud services should not rush customers and should consider starting with a service like backup as a springboard to further applications

• June 26, 2012 26 Jun'12

  ComputerLinks adds NextIO to data centre portfolio

  ComputerLinks adds to its data centre product portfolio after being signed up by US vendor NextIO.

• 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 25, 2012 25 Jun'12

  Consumer cloud new service provider opportunity, says Gartner

  Cloud providers may soon be able to consider adding a new string to their bow in the shape of consumer cloud services, as home users begin to turn to the cloud to store photos, videos and other content.

• 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 15, 2012 15 Jun'12

  ANS among first to nab elite Cisco NetApp FlexPod badge

  Networking and cloud integrator ANS has become one of the first Cisco and NetApp partners in the UK, alongside DiData and Logicalis, to be named to the vendors' joint FlexPod Premium Partner Framework.

• 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".

• June 07, 2012 07 Jun'12

  Coraid appointment to target EMEA growth

  Ethernet SAN specialist Coraid has appointed former Isilon Systems northern EMEA boss Peter Godden as its new senior director of EMEA in an attempt to replicate the recent tenfold growth it has seen in its US operation.

• June 07, 2012 07 Jun'12

  Ingram gets Crucial and Lexar brands

  Micron's Crucial and Lexar memory and storage brands are being added to Ingram Micro's line-up in a bid to increase the firm's exposure to the UK channel.

• June 01, 2012 01 Jun'12

  Nutanix commences Euro channel blitz with SDG signing

  'SAN-free' datacentre specialist Nutanix has fetched up on European shores, announcing its first UK partners in the shape of distie SDG and solutions provider Kelway, as well as appointing former EMC andVMware operatives Alan Campbell as EMEA sales ...

• May 25, 2012 25 May'12

  High capacity HDD sales helped by price reductions

  Western Digital has benefited as the prices of high capacity hard disc drives (HDD) start to return to pre-Thailand flood levels.