HIMSS Analytics together with Dell surveyed healthcare IT executives and found that small to medium sized hospitals are expected to experience a 25 to 50% increase in demand on their data centers over the next 2 years. What’s contributing to this increase:
Electronic Health Records
Digital Imaging
Health Information Exchange
Business Intelligence
Data security
According to Dell, small and medium sized [...]
Check out Ctera Networks.
ChannelWeb blogs about them as one of the emerging vendors in the channel.
The Ctera Cloud Plug is the smallest file server I have ever seen. Plug it into the wall, your network router, and your external hard drive and you have instant NAS for file sharing and local backup, as well as [...]
Got this chart in my inbox today from Applied Computer Research.
Number of Business Locations Supported by IT
All Respondents in all Vertical Markets
Source: Inside IT Departments: Comparing Organization Size to IT Infrastructure and
Usage Traits, by Applied Computer Research, Inc.
Number of Business Locations Supported by IT (All Respondents in all Vertical Markets)
If I’m reading this right, of [...]
Seagate’s i365 and Microsoft announced a partnership to shake up data protection in the midmarket.
i365 eVault backup solutions
+ Microsoft Data Protection Manager
= Channel opportunity
i365 benefits from the marketing muscle and reach Microsoft has into the mid-market, and Microsoft benefits from a platform (eVault) that enables them extend Data Protection Manager to clients with mixed environments.
A [...]
Is the cloud (SaaS) not meeting all SMB backup and recovery needs?
Today i365 (a Seagate company) announced a new backup and recovery appliance for small and medium sized businesses and even large enterprises. The appliance, called EVault Plug-n-Protect packs a ton of software and services for data protection onto a server and storage appliance from [...]