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HDS looks to chief tech director Reid to lead UK
HDS has confirmed that chief technology director Tony Reid is set to become the successor to UK boss Steve Murphy, who is moving to HP as vice president of sales. As revealed yesterday by MicroScope, Murphy has hung up his boots at HDS after four ye... News | 19 Jan 2011
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EMC targets SMEs with unified storage range
EMC has thrown the gauntlet down to rivals and channel partners to match and embrace a large number of products and channel innovations designed to grow its slice of the SME market. To backup the push with its VNXe systems, offering unified storage ... News | 18 Jan 2011
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SMEs failing to take backup measures
A number of small firms are not backing up any data leaving themselves exposed to potentially significant problems if they encounter any downtime. A survey of SMEs by Symantec has found 5%, around 240,000 UK firms, are not taking any steps to backup... News | 11 Jan 2011
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Ingram Micro beefs up HP storage enterprise team
Ingram Micro has poached storage industry veteran John Winney from Arrow ECS to beef up its HP enterprise unit with sales manager Andy Rousell set to join rival distributor Azlan. Winney, who until last month was HP XP business manager at Arrow ECS,... News | 02 Dec 2010
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NetApp sets out ambitions in a virtualised world
By Linda Endersby in Prague NetApp has used its partner conference event in Prague to talk of growth and the opportunity for resellers to help customers move away from fixed architectures. The storage and data management provider has recently unde... News | 16 Nov 2010
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EMC snaps up Isilon for cloud storage push
EMC is to acquire Washington-based network attached storage (NAS)outfit Isilon for $2.25bn (£1.39bn), or $33.85 per share as it makes its move on the cloud. Isilon has made a strong play in the growing scale-out NAS sector, which IDC claims wil... News | 15 Nov 2010
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Buffalo EMEA sales boss to quit
Buffalo EMEA sales and marketing vice president Kevin Vine has resigned from the company after five years in the role. Theconsumer networking and storagespecialist gave noreason for the departure ofVine, a former managing director at Ingram Micro. Al... News | 01 Nov 2010
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ANS bags NetApp expertise with Alpha buy
ANS Group has forked out £4.85m to acquire fellow London and Manchester-based data storage and netork solution specialist Alpha Business Computers. The deal, funded by ANS' cash reserves, will see Alpha sales director Simon Birney and techninc... News | 01 Nov 2010
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Connect introduces cloud-based business continuity scheme
By Billy MacInnes Connect has launched a UK channel programme for resellers to sell a range of cloud-based business continuity services to the SME market. Describing the business benefits of email continuity and data backup in the cloud as "... News | 27 Oct 2010
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All stick no carrot: CRC scheme changes create 'stealth tax'
by Billy MacInnes The government has been urged to review changes to the carbon reduction commitment (CRC) scheme announced last week to prevent it becoming a "stealth carbon tax" on business. When it was initially introduced, CRC adop... News | 25 Oct 2010