June 26, 2012 11:10 AM
Profile: Eric Slack
Sweet spots and flat spots: When do VARs look for new products to sell?

I had lunch with a storage integrator recently. I asked him what made his company look for new products to sell and what drove it to add vendors to its line card. He said the company is...
June 18, 2012 9:56 AM
Profile: Eric Slack
Financial reform: Dodd-Frank legislation to impact IT, VARs

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection...
June 12, 2012 11:56 AM
Profile: Eric Slack
Network-based caching appliances: Good option for critical apps, without ‘minibar pricing’

When users need more performance for critical applications, most vendors offer SSD board upgrades to their disk systems to use as a cache or they support replacing disk drives with...
June 4, 2012 10:36 AM
Profile: Eric Slack
All-flash arrays: High performance without complexity of caching, tiering systems

In this post we’ll continue our discussion of flash implementation options by looking at