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Evolution builds £6m datacentre for Netstore

Kayleigh Bateman — 2008-08-19T16:50:00.000Z

Kayleigh Bateman, CRN, Tuesday 19 August 2008 at 16:50:00

VAR invests in new facility to support growth in London business

Datacentre builder Evolution has designed, project-managed and installed a £6m datacentre for VAR Netstore. The 550m2 datacentre will double Netstore’s data storage capacity and support the predicted growth of its...

Left Hand praises channel for growth success

Kayleigh Bateman — 2008-08-19T13:43:00.000Z

Kayleigh Bateman, CRN, Tuesday 19 August 2008 at 13:43:00

SAN vendor attributes fast-paced growth to its expanding partner community

Storage Area Network (SAN) vendor LeftHand Networks has surpassed 3,000 customers, as a result of increasing its partner base by more than 70 per cent in fiscal year 2008....

A lot of life in the old tape yet

kayleigh bateman — 2008-08-14T17:29:00.000Z

kayleigh bateman , CRN, Thursday 14 August 2008 at 17:29:00

Businesses still reliant on traditional backup method as part of ‘belt and braces’ disaster recovery

The loss of business information can be disastrous for a company’s health and success, so it is essential that every business has a backup or a disaster recovery (DR) plan....

Copan launches global channel programme

Kayleigh Bateman — 2008-08-14T12:40:00.000Z

Kayleigh Bateman, CRN, Thursday 14 August 2008 at 12:40:00

Data storage vendor looks to increase its tally of 21 EMEA partners with programme launch

Data storage solutions vendor Copan Systems has launched an international channel programme to drive its Massive Array of Idle Disks (MAID) products into enterprises worldwide....

Anite doubles up on data centres

Sam Trendall — 2008-08-11T14:28:00.000Z

Sam Trendall, CRN, Monday 11 August 2008 at 14:28:00

IT services outfit builds to open second facility in Berkshire later this year

IT services firm Anite is to launch a new high security data centre in Berkshire later this year. The building is currently under construction and Anite expect work to be...

Big Blue roadshow talks up sales rise

kayleigh bateman — 2008-08-07T11:38:00.000Z

kayleigh bateman , CRN, Thursday 7 August 2008 at 11:38:00

IBM highlights partner opportunities following boom in attach rates for Power Systems Platform

IBM highlighted the recent growth of its Power Systems Platform business and a tripling in its overall virtualisation sales during its recent partner roadshow across Europe....

Redstor builds on construction deal

kayleigh bateman — 2008-08-07T11:29:00.000Z

kayleigh bateman , CRN, Thursday 7 August 2008 at 11:29:00

Surveying business plans European expansion

Reseller Redstor is poised to roll out more Riverbed Steelhead appliances for construction firm CNP as the surveying business reveals plans to expand its European footprint....

OCF goes nuclear with Gemstone deployment

Kayleigh Bateman — 2008-08-07T10:53:00.000Z

Kayleigh Bateman, CRN, Thursday 7 August 2008 at 10:53:00

VAR implements Gemstone HPC cluster for the National Nuclear Laboratory

High-performing computing (HPC) reseller OCF has implemented a high performance computing cluster (HPCC) known as Gemstone at the National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL)....

HDS outstrips storage rivals

Kayleigh Bateman — 2008-08-06T16:53:00.000Z

Kayleigh Bateman, CRN, Wednesday 6 August 2008 at 16:53:00

Storage vendor claims it outgrew IBM and EMC in three months to June

Bullish storage giant Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) claims it is outgrowing its main rivals following a strong fiscal first quarter....

Plasmon gets the Horne

Kayleigh Bateman — 2008-08-06T11:20:00.000Z

Kayleigh Bateman, CRN, Wednesday 6 August 2008 at 11:20:00

Archiving vendor poaches EMC sales manager to head up its EMEA sales operation

Archiving vendor Plasmon has appointed Colin Horne as vice president of EMEA sales and customer support to help expand its channel reach....

Sun looks to open source to kickstart growth

Sam Trendall — 2008-08-04T09:45:00.000Z

Sam Trendall, CRN, Monday 4 August 2008 at 09:45:00

Vendor hopes OpenSolaris, MySQL, Lustre and ZFS can breathe life into its stagnant top line

Server and storage vendor Sun Microsystems has primed open source as the key to future revenue growth after posting flat sales in its 2008 results....

Atempo moves forward with recruitment plans

kayleigh bateman — 2008-07-31T12:31:00.000Z

kayleigh bateman , CRN, Thursday 31 July 2008 at 12:31:00

Vendor kicks off renewed recruitment drive for partner programme with Adept4 signing

Continuous data protection (CDP) vendor Atempo has recruited another managed service provider for its UK Select partner programme, in the form of Adept4....

VARs must push virtualisation adoption up to the next level

kayleigh bateman — 2008-07-18T16:05:00.000Z

kayleigh bateman , CRN, Friday 18 July 2008 at 16:05:00

Resellers should focus on upselling as more European businesses move to a virtual environment

Virtualisation adoption in Europe is on the increase, according to a recent report from analyst IDC, placing resellers in a prime position to up-sell with application management equipment....

Hamilton management split from 2e2

Kayleigh Bateman — 2008-07-16T10:49:00.000Z

Kayleigh Bateman, CRN, Wednesday 16 July 2008 at 10:49:00

2e2 offloads IT rental arm a year after its acquisition of Compel

IT rental firm Hamilton Rentals has performed a management buyout (MBO) from integrator 2e2. 2e2 inherited Hamilton as part of its acquisition of Oracle VAR Compel in March 2007....

Logicalis gets gold star from Datatec

Doug Woodburn — 2008-07-15T09:41:00.000Z

Doug Woodburn, CRN, Tuesday 15 July 2008 at 09:41:00

Growth of services business boosts integrator’s bottom line

Integrator Logicalis has been singled out for praise in parent Datatec’s interim management statement. South-Africa listed IT group Datatec, which also owns networking distributor Westcon, expects revenues for the six...