The companies are developing management solutions for public and private cloud environments.
Mining information for patterns and trends can boost business turnover and cost reduction, says Channel Data.
The news sent its shares higher on Friday.
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The software allows individuals to create and carry an image of their primary PC on an Iomega hard drive.
A storage singularity? Maybe as early as this year.
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The 3PAR InServ F400 Storage Server has been named the disks and disk subsystems 2009 “Product of the Year”.
The mobility platform allows ProScan to develop and deploy mobile apps throughout an organisation.
In this World Wide Wrap: Trend and Wipro partner, storage virtualisation becomes mandatory, and banks save through virtualisation.