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Comdex Virtual Day 1

Seagate participated in Comdex Virtual, hosted November 16 and 17 by Everything Channel, and I have to say,  the event was packed with in great presentations, high profile keynotes, and insights for solution providers, Value Added Resellers and IT professionals. One of the advantages of those events is for Channel Partners to better understand the [...]

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Protect, Store, and GET MORE…with new Seagate BlackArmor® NAS firmware upgrade

This week Seagate is rolling out a free firmware upgrade for its BlackArmor® NAS line of products providing small businesses and prosumers around the world with additional functionality and flexibility to support their evolving digital needs. What’s new in this firmware upgrade? Time Machine® software support (additional backup compatibility for Mac® computers) iTunes® Server Version [...]

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SMBs’ Cloud Adoption: The Question is not When but How?

No doubt, cloud computing is gaining adoption among SMBs. The latest estimates from AMI Partners would bring the global SMB cloud-related spending  to $95B by 2014.  However, many questions remain unanswered when it comes to how much and how fast it will impact on-premise IT investments for those companies. AMI published a significant amount of [...]

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IT Industry Health Indicators: Debt and Employment… Sounds familiar?

Nothing surprising, the health of the IT industry is tightly correlated to key economic indicators. Two specific ones – debt and employment – were cited in the press in the past few weeks and some of those numbers were interesting to look at. First, the good news on employment.  According to TechAmerica foundation, there was [...]

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Cloud Computing Makes Storage Sexy

If we can agree to disagree on the definition of cloud computing, one thing is certain: cloud computing is changing the way large traditional IT vendors are defining the next-generation of data centers and storage is central. Will it be NetApp or EMC? Rumors of Oracle’s next move in the Cloud make everyone speculate and [...]

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Cloud Computing – A Reality Check

I attended the TechTarget ROI Summit in San Francisco last week, which combines Marketing best practices and technology topics. One thing they do really well is bring real, live IT managers as panelists to talk about the latest trends and help do a reality check… I was particularly interested in the break out session on [...]

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Mobility Uncompromised

Forrester’s recent blog highlights that 43% of SMBs identify supporting more mobile devices or smart phones as one key initiative this year. Enabling employees to be mobile is a great way for SMBs to increase productivity inside and outside of the office. But what about security concerns? According to Symantec, 42% of SMBs have lost [...]

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Good Things Come in 3 TBs…..

With the recent introduction of 3 terabyte (TB) hard drives to the marketplace, Seagate is now offering the industry’s highest-capacity, 4 and 2-bay, desktop network attached storage solutions. Seagate’s (4-bay) BlackArmor® NAS 440 network storage server is now available in a whopping 12TB solution and comes pre-populated with (4) 3TB drives.  Similarly, the (2-bay) BlackArmor® [...]

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I say…the Glass is Half Full

When I wrote about SMB IT purchase intent yesterday, I didn’t expect I would get 3,000 answers. Spiceworks just published their semi annual report on SMB IT purchase plans and we have more data that point towards more optimism… Although a majority of SMBs are still uncertain about the future of the economy, there are [...]

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Is the Glass Half Full or Half Empty?

Stats are misleading. For IT vendors trying to enable the SMB space, the opportunity looks amazing. In 2010, SMBs represent 75% of all US businesses and $55B in addressable technology opportunity. However, some stats can be pretty discouraging: In 2009, only 40% of SMBs were online, and 30% have dedicated IT Staff…  So, one way [...]

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