Storage

Resellers to catch ‘Yellow Machine' fever 
By Byron Connolly | Oct 18, 2005 | Comment Now 
Austeq, a new Australian distributor selling a unique integrated storage and security appliance dubbed ‘Yellow Machine’ is on the hunt for channel partners.
 
Enstor appoints new managing director 
By Byron Connolly | Oct 7, 2005 | Comment Now 
Terry Semple, the man who installed Australia’s first fibre channel SAN, is the new managing director at storage integrator Enstor.
 
LAN Systems signs Exabyte 
By Byron Connolly | Oct 5, 2005 | Comment Now 
Westcon Group subsidiary LAN Systems has beefed up its storage portfolio, signing an agreement to distribute Exabyte’s tape backup, restore and archival systems to SMB resellers.
 
HP unveils archiving, data protection 
By Joseph F. Kovar | Sep 7, 2005 | Comment Now 
HP in the US has unveiled some new storage products aimed at enterprise data protection and archiving.
 
Hitachi flags channel expansion, mid-market targets 
By Fleur Doidge | Sep 6, 2005 | Comment Now 
Storage specialist Hitachi Data Systems is targeting increased channel sales by expanding its geographical and vertical coverage with new partners.
 
Oracle, Sun target SQL Server sellers 
By Fleur Doidge | Aug 26, 2005 | Comment Now 
Oracle and Sun have released database bundles to the channel that aim to challenge Microsoft in the mid-market and and tempt SQL Server resellers.
 
Data recovery firms launch local labs, eye expansion 
By Fleur Doidge | Aug 22, 2005 | Comment Now 
Data recovery companies are opening new clean room facilities across Australia to take advantage of what they see as a burgeoning market for hard disk repairs and data retrieval.
 
Workshare boosts channel support 
By Fleur Doidge | Aug 17, 2005 | Comment Now 
Document integrity applications vendor Workshare has added extra channel support to maintain the 400 percent revenue growth the company reported for its first year in Australia.
 
HP storage bundles working for channel 
By Byron Connolly | Aug 15, 2005 | Comment Now 
HP partners generated $1.2 million in storage sales over the past three months thanks to the introduction of Simply StorageWorks, a campaign aimed at simplifying storage for ...
 
Western Digital standardises hard drive warranties 
By Fleur Doidge | Aug 5, 2005 | Comment Now 
Storage vendor Western Digital has extended and standardised its hard drive warranty periods for five years for its enterprise drives and three years for its desktop and ...
 
Businesses struggle with storage management complexity 
By Vivienne Fisher | Aug 2, 2005 | Comment Now 
Data growth has been contributing to the complexity of storage management over the past five years, according to a recent survey.
 
Quantum launches configuration, registration tool for partners 
By Byron Connolly | Jul 7, 2005 | Comment Now 
The Australian operation of data storage vendor Quantum unveiled a web-based storage systems purchasing tool and deal registration mechanism dubbed Quantum Marketplace.
 
EMC expands consulting services 
Jun 21, 2005 | Comment Now 
Storage giant EMC has expanded its service offerings through the channel to target global demand for information lifecycle management.
 
Silicon Graphics turns to channel 
By Fleur Doidge | Jun 10, 2005 | Comment Now 
Silicon Graphics has changed its focus to indirect sales, outlining plans to expand its global distribution channel and sign IT resellers in Australia.
 
Iomega launches VAR program, products 
By Byron Connolly | Apr 29, 2005 | Comment Now 
Storage maker Iomega has launched a VAR program that tempts resellers to sell its NAS and REV backup products with quarterly sales rebates of up to five percent.
 
Iomega signs Express Online 
Apr 27, 2005 | Comment Now 
Iomega Australia has signed Express Online to distribute its entire range of storage hardware to resellers.
 
Hitachi signs with CommVault 
Apr 14, 2005 | Comment Now 
Hitachi Data Systems has signed up to push US-based CommVault data management and protection products worldwide.
 
EMC Centera certification launched 
Apr 11, 2005 | Comment Now 
EMC has introduced a voluntary Centera certification initiative as part of its ISV integration program.
 
Distributors come in from Veritas cold 
By Fleur Doidge | Mar 17, 2005 | Comment Now 
Storage software giant Veritas has had a change of heart, reappointing TechPacific and, reportedly, also ACA Pacific as distributors less than a year after their axing in mid-2004.
 
Too much information? 
By Damien Virulhapen | Feb 28, 2005 | Comment Now 
Corporations are now facing a deluge of data gathered from the electronic trails left by their customers, according to Gartner analyst Bob Hayward.
 
Fujitsu in storage play 
By Byron Connolly | Feb 18, 2005 | Comment Now 
Fujitsu Australia is taking a stab at securing some market share in the crowded storage market with its range of Eternus3000 SAN storage systems.
 
StorageTek launches fresh channel program 
By Byron Connolly | Feb 14, 2005 | Comment Now 
StorageTek Australia and New Zealand launched a formal channel program in an effort to pump its indirect business to at least 50 percent of total sales by the end of the year.
 
TalkNet out for hosted services 
By Fleur Doidge | Jan 28, 2005 | Comment Now 
Wholesale telecommunications provider TalkNet has signed up another 13 partners and outlined plans to launch a wide range of network-based services as as VoIP traffic surges ...
 
DiData, EMC partner on Cisco deal 
Dec 24, 2004 | Comment Now 
Storage partners EMC and Dimension Data have deployed a Cisco SAN solution for Brisbane-based glass and alumininium maker and contractor, G James Glass & Aluminium.
 
Novell days from enterprise server beta  
By Paula Rooney | Dec 24, 2004 | Comment Now 
Novell will make available a public beta of its Open Enterprise Server (OES) beta within days.
 
Peribit partners Veritas in marketing deal 
By Byron Connolly | Dec 22, 2004 | Comment Now 
Peribit Networks has partnered Veritas Software in a marketing alliance that will see the latter promote Peribit WAN optimisation products alongside Veritas software for data ...
 
Blades, networking to drive storage next year 
By Fleur Doidge | Dec 8, 2004 | Comment Now 
Blade servers, iSCSI and networked storage are three themes Australian resellers can expect to harness for bigger profits from the data management sector next year, industry ...
 
Convergence to cannibalise service providers, SMS 
By Fleur Doidge | Nov 24, 2004 | Comment Now 
Gartner has predicted shrinking service provider ranks and the death of SMS as a business tool as technological convergence accelerates in coming years.
 
Cortex IT, Westan in storage deal 
By Byron Connolly | Nov 23, 2004 | Comment Now 
Melbourne distributor Westan has stuck an OEM storage arrangement with backup software company Cortex IT to deliver a pre-configured network attached storage (NAS) solution to ...
 
NetApp ups channel commitment 
By Fleur Doidge | Nov 19, 2004 | Comment Now 
US-based storage vendor Network Appliance has flagged a bigger channel push locally as part of its drive into grid-style storage next year.
 
Users see handhelds as powerful tools: survey 
Nov 17, 2004 | Comment Now 
Handheld users are looking for a range of functionality in their ideal devices, according to a recent survey.
 
StorageTek beefs up channel with new program 
By Fleur Doidge | Oct 14, 2004 | Comment Now 
Storage vendor StorageTek has outlined plans to ramp up channel sales to 60 percent of its turnover in two years, flagging a possible raft of new local signings from early 2005.
 
LAN Systems grabs exclusive EMC deal 
By Byron Connolly | Oct 1, 2004 | Comment Now 
LAN Systems has scored an exclusive distribution agreement with enterprise-cum-SMB storage vendor EMC, in a deal that would potentially catapult its storage sales to 15 percent ...
 
SanDisk sees photo memory opportunity in Big W 
By Sarah Stokely | Sep 30, 2004 | Comment Now 
Memory vendor SanDisk is taking its digital camera flash memory cards to the retail mass merchant channel for the first time with the news that it has signed a distribution ...
 
Sun shines light on servers, storage in latest lineup 
By Fleur Doidge | Sep 23, 2004 | Comment Now 
Sun's latest quarterly products announcement emphasises servers, workstations and storage in a growing push towards utility computing and lower cost networking, company ...
 
Asia-Pacific server sales up 12.4 percent 
Sep 6, 2004 | Comment Now 
Server sales across the Asia-Pacific region were up 12.4 percent in the second quarter to US$1.4 billion, according to new Gartner Dataquest figures.
 
Intel drives forward Moore's Law 
Sep 1, 2004 | Comment Now 
Intel has created fully functional 70Mb static random access memory (SRAM) chips with more than half a billion transistors using advanced nm process technology.
 
PeopleSoft Rapid Start into SME 
By Siobhan Chapman | Aug 25, 2004 | Comment Now 
PeopleSoft is targeting small to medium enterprises with a new 'rapid start' product unveiled at its regional conference today.
 
EMC centralises Asia-Pacific partner support 
By Fleur Doidge | Aug 5, 2004 | Comment Now 
Storage vendor EMC has centralised Asia-Pacific partner support, opening seven reseller help centres in what it sees as key markets.
 
Anyware gets into the digital home 
 
Users confused about utility computing: IDC 
 
HP Aust pledges to replace faulty notebook part 
By Vivienne Fisher | Jun 28, 2004 | Comment Now 
HP has announced a voluntary replacement program for customers who may have been affected by a design flaw in certain notebook memory modules.
 
EMC hires new sales team 
By Byron Connolly | Jun 24, 2004 | Comment Now 
Storage vendor EMC Corporation has hired nine staff to work inside a new commercial sales division that would drive storage sales in the SME market through its channel ...
 
Brocade hits back at McData accusations 
By Fleur Doidge | Jun 11, 2004 | Comment Now 
Storage vendor Brocade has hit back at claims by rival McData that the former plans to withdraw resources from its channel and de-emphasise sales to medium business in ...
 
SDG deploys five-way storage for Melbourne Business School 
 
McData to sign local system integrators 
By Fleur Doidge | Jun 10, 2004 | Comment Now 
Storage vendor McData has been negotiating terms of potential deals with at least four Australian system integrators, in a move to push McData’s medium business offerings to ...
 
EMC goes down(market) with Dell 
 
Brocade broadens outlook to midsize businesses 
By Fleur Doidge | May 12, 2004 | Comment Now 
Corporate storage vendor Brocade is following the lead of rivals such as Acer and HP, attempting to sell more stock into medium-size businesses with up to 25 servers.
 
Disaster recovery still concerns businesses 
By Vivienne Fisher | May 11, 2004 | Comment Now 
More than 53 percent of medium and large Australian organisations are still looking for ways to improve disaster recovery, according to a recent survey.
 
CRM consultancy flags Asian expansion 
By Fleur Doidge | Mar 8, 2004 | Comment Now 
CRM specialist Aaromba Technologies has expanded into Western Australia with an eye to a campaign to conquer Asia starting 2005.
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