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Deduplication: A Quick Fix or The Way Forward for Storage?

Having engulfed the IT team, the data avalanche is set to hit the wider business. Organizations now have to impose restrictions on email inboxes and local storage facilities because of the amount of data being produced by users across the network.



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Symantec's SaaS program

I wrote yesterday on how backup and storage is seen as "essential" and is therefore immune to economic downturns; it seems Symantec had the same idea.

| News | Channel | 10/31/08 at 10:20 am |


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Storage services are a strong area for VARs

Even during hard times, companies continue to generate mountains of digital data, and so the storage business is a good option for VARs and MSPs looking for new services to offer. R.W. Baird's Q3 Enterprise VAR Survey showed an overall negative third quarter, although the study showed storage to be the strongest area of IT spending.

| News | Channel | 10/30/08 at 9:30 am |


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As HP snaps up LeftHand, DataCore extends its right

Earlier this week, HP announced that it signed a definitive agreement to acquire LeftHand Networks, a provider of storage virtualization and iSCSI storage area network (SAN) solutions. This is a big deal, because LeftHand Networks has more than 11,000 installations across 3,000 different customers. Another iSCSI vendor, DataCore is looking to capitalize on uncertainty among resellers.

| Opinion | Channel | Storage | 10/07/08 at 10:43 am |


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