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Storage Upgrade: A Mix of Technology and Good Business Sense

While a lackluster economy has forced organizations to delay new IT purchases and upgrades, an industry wide refresh cycle is well underway. The latest article published by Processor  – Inside the Storage Refresh Cycle – advises IT managers to investigate the latest storage technologies, but also use common sense. Why? Because upgrading your storage goes [...]

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What 5MB Looked Like?

As we all now travel with light ultraportables with at least 160GB of disk space, this gives a whole new meaning to mobility… Do you know what this is? In September 1956, IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first ‘SUPER’ computer with a hard disk drive (HDD).  The HDD weighed  over a ton and stored a ‘whopping’  [...]

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Why Channel Partners Get “The Cloud”

With VMWorld going full steam and lots of press covering “the cloud” and the opportunities behind “everything-as-a-service”, it is not always easy to discern who will be able to deliver on the promises and make money at the same time.  While presenting the Cloud opportunity, ChannelPro’s article – Evolution of the Trusted IT Adviser – [...]

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Not so Random Acquisitions

In case you missed Intel’s latest announcement (Intel buying McAfee for $7Billion), you can read Mark Wojtasiak’s blog on Intel’s commitment to everything-secure when it comes to our computing needs…  But is there more to this? What we know is that Intel will be able leverage McAfee’s stake in the consumer PC market, but also [...]

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Archiving: A necessary evil?

We’ve all heard about HIPAA, SOX, SEC regulations and the need to comply with e-discovery rules.  In other words, we’ve all heard about why companies have to archive their electronic content.    A recent  white paper  from Osterman Research, sponsored by Mimecast – Convincing the decision Makers of the Critical Needs of Archiving – does [...]

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NAS in Simple terms

I have always thought that NAS – Network Attached Storage – was a terrible name. It really explains what it is (storage attached to the network) but does it really help the users understand the benefits?  Not really. I think that’s what the latest Webinar hosted by  CRN‘s Senior editor Joe Kovar and Seagate’s Senior Marketing Manager [...]

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Do You…Backup?

Protecting information is serious business and SMBs are not immune. As illustrated in Symantec’s 2010 SMB Information Security survey, SMBs are getting serious about protecting their data. Losing confidential information is costly, and new threats are emerging from many places – mobile workers, consumerization of IT, cyber attacks… Here is a short summary of the [...]

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Getting Personal with SMBs

I love when Market Research makes us all smarter… Chaitra Vedullapalli  in her post illustrates the benefits of  (good) market Segmentation. As marketers, we always need to figure out our target markets (“who”), and the products they buy (“what”).  However,  we don’t often get insights into “how” our customers buy/view/understand technology in the context of [...]

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Who’s Got Your Back?

Backing up your most valuable content is like jumping out of an airplane. You put your life in the hands of a stranger. And you trust that everything will work out in the end. I went skydiving a few weeks ago and much like I store (and back up) my most precious memories on my external [...]

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SMB Hardware Purchases

Despite a sluggish economic recovery, most SMBs expect to spend more on IT this year (Microsoft SMB/Partner Insight Report). And the bounce back is already underway… However, we already established that we shouldn’t expect pre-recession IT spending behaviors. SMBs are looking at technologies to will help them with reduce their costs, improve employee productivity and [...]

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