Newsletter | April 4, 2012

04.04.12 -- 4 Healthcare Trends That Demand Your Attention

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In This Issue:
Take The Guesswork Out Of Server Migrations 3 Strategies For Leading SMBs To The Cloud Warning: Rumors Of Tape's Demise Greatly Exaggerated	The Secret To Sizing Your Customer's Data Backup Appliance 4 Healthcare Trends That Demand Your Attention New CompTIA Study: Business Operations Impacted By Widening IT Skills Gap

	Take The Guesswork Out Of Server Migrations By Jay McCall, networking and managed services editor An industry veteran shares his wisdom regarding which type of server migration is the best choice for your customers' storage and networking environments. *Full article...*

3 Strategies For Leading SMBs To The Cloud By Justin Moore, Axcient You may have heard these or similar objections from SMBs (small to midsize businesses) when trying to sell them cloud solutions. *Full article...*

Warning: Rumors Of Tape's Demise Greatly Exaggerated Earlier this year, I would have predicted that 2012 would have been the year tape media made the same transition that film-based picture cameras made a few years ago. *Watch video...*

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	The Secret To Sizing Your Customer's Data Backup Appliance By John Pearring, sales manager, STORserver Follow these important parameters to help determine the right size for your customer's backup solution. *Full article...*

4 Healthcare Trends That Demand Your Attention By Jay McCall, networking & managed services editor In our April issue of Business Solutions magazine, we feature a special supplement called the Partner Program Insider. Within this special insert, my colleague Mike Monocello and I highlight trends we're seeing in the top four vertical markets our channel readers are selling into: education, government, healthcare, and retail. *Full article...*

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New CompTIA Study: Business Operations Impacted By Widening IT Skills Gap

Eight in ten organizations say their business operations are impacted by gaps in the skill sets of their information technology (IT) staffs, according to new research published today by CompTIA, the non-profit association for the IT industry.
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VDI Boot Storms Do A Disappearing Act With Avere

Avere Systems recently announced that testing of its FXT Series proves that NAS Optimization provides the fastest boot times when compared to traditional disk-based filers.
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TwinStrata Launches A Free 1-Terabyte Storage Gateway For Google Cloud Storage Users

TwinStrata, Inc., a provider of cloud-based data storage, backup, and disaster recovery solutions, recently announced that it is offering customers access to data stored on Google Cloud Storage via the TwinStrata CloudArray storage gateway.
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Arkeia Introduces vmOneStep Virtual Appliance For VMware Agentless Backup Solution To Protect VMware Environments

Arkeia Software, a provider of network backup solutions, recently announced the vmOneStep virtual appliance for VMware, a turnkey backup solution for VMware hypervisors packaged as a simple-to-install single virtual machine, ready for deployment on any VMware vSphere, ESXi, or ESX hypervisor.
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KineticD Presents The Future Of Cloud Backup: A Series Of Video Discussions About The Advantage Of Moving Data To The Cloud

KineticD, a provider of cloud backup and data recovery services designed for small and midsize businesses (SMBs), announced the availability of a video series with Brad Nisbet, Storage and Data Management Services of IDC, on the future of cloud backup.
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