I’m sure you want to read another blog about how great Seagate is, with all our awards and stuff — and if so, you’re in for a treat! But seriously, I do want to talk about an award, and I promise you this one’s a little different. Seagate was named one of “2011’s Best Companies [...]

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Comdex Virtual Day 2

By Barbara Imbert, posted November 22, 2010

And on to day 2… If “IT does not matter”, Carr declared that cloud computing does. Why? Simply because, there is demand. End users will demand more and more cloud services and ignoring this trend would mean passing on a great opportunity. As the Cloud takes off, pressure is mounting on the security and networking [...]

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Comdex Virtual Day 1

By Barbara Imbert, posted November 18, 2010

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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Cloud Computing – A Reality Check

By Barbara Imbert, posted October 11, 2010

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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Is the Glass Half Full or Half Empty?

By Barbara Imbert, posted September 22, 2010

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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Storage Upgrade: A Mix of Technology and Good Business Sense

By Barbara Imbert, posted September 15, 2010

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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SMB Hardware Purchases

By Barbara Imbert, posted May 18, 2010

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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Technology refresh needed at SMH(ospitals)

By Mark Wojtasiak, posted January 28, 2010

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 [...]

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Calling the right plays when solution selling

By Mark Wojtasiak, posted November 5, 2009

Check out what Avnet is providing resellers and solution providers who want to get into new markets but lack a game plan. Avnet calls them SolutionsPath Playbooks, and it may be just what you are looking for to ride the latest technology waves. For storage they include playbooks on: Application Optimization Data Protection & Recovery [...]

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Storage means business for the VAR 500

By Mark Wojtasiak, posted June 4, 2009

Congratulations to Everything Channel’s award winning VARs and all 500 of you that made the VAR500. It’s a testament to how your innovation and executing to the needs of customers (like SMB) - leads to growth – the average growth rate of the VAR500 is at 11.6%. Some of the ones grew as much as 34.5%. ChannelWeb [...]