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NEWS & EVENTS
Press Coverage
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September 7, 2010
Oracle VARs Hope Hurd Can Boost Hardware Business
Oracle (NSDQ:ORCL) hardware partners are hoping Mark Hurd can bring some energy and focus to the Sun Microsystems (NSDQ:JAVA) side of the business once he comes on board as president.
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September 1, 2010
IT in Canada - Canada's Only Integrated Social Media News Network
HighVail Systems has introduced the HighVail Elite Club and is inviting some of its best customers and prospects for a day full of speakers, networking, ...
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May 21, 2010 -
Storage Budget Strategy
Talk about fighting a tough battle. As data center managers continue to seek ways to work within increasingly shrinking budgets, the data entering their environments continues to expand. Short of closing up shop altogether, there’s no way to stop that data from pouring into the data center, regardless of the storage budget’s size.
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May 6, 2010 -
Building up channel business in tough times
Times are good for HighVail systems. The Toronto-based solutions provider has weathered the recession well, and late last month moved into larger premises.
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April 22 , 2010 -
HighVail grows into a new office
I was at the grand opening of HighVail Systems' new office in downtown Toronto last night. Company founder and president Bradley Brodkin put on a great event sponsored by his main vendor partners HP,HDS,Oracle/Sun and Symantec.
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April 22 , 2010 -
HighVail's Brodkin on Elite Club and "the bell"
CRN Canada caught up with HighVail Systems president Bradley Brodkin at the grand opening of the solution provider’s new headquarters in Toronto.
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April 21 , 2010 -
HighVail celebrates growth in move into new headquarters
For HighVail Systems, it’s a small move, but it’s a big move. The Toronto-based high-availability-focused solution provider celebrated the grand opening of its new headquarters in Toronto Wednesday. But staff and customers aren’t going to have change their travel plans much to get to the company – they just need to get off the elevator a little earlier.
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April 1 , 2010 -
The year of opportunity and hardship
Last year was a tough one, but it capped a successful run for the ICT sector. The geographical breakdown of the Top 250 listing remained relatively static in 2009. Ontario, which experienced the largest increase in representation among Canadian provinces in 2008, realized the sharpest decline in 2009, falling three per cent to account for 57 per cent of listed firms.
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March 3 , 2010 -
The death of Hitachi/Sun alliance was decided long ago
The bottom line for Oracle with the acquisition of Sun Microsystems is they have plenty of storage options for customers and did not need Hitachi Data Systems any longer. Today Oracle has storage tape solutions from StorageTek, they have Open Storage from Sun along with mid-range storage from the LSI OEM agreement. And, while not officially part of Oracle, Pillar Data Systems is also in the mix.
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January 28 , 2010 -
Sun Oracle sends mixed message to the channel
Oracle's (Nasdaq: ORCL) presidentCharles Philips came on stage to tell the world his company's plans for an integrated Sun with Oracle, but when he left there were more questions raised, especially by channel partners, than were answered.
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January 27 , 2010 -
Oracle keeping Sun assets to become only complete systems vendor
Oracle has indicated its' commitment to the key components of Sun's product lines, saying that the OS, virtual machine, server and storage stacks they are adding will let Oracle become the only fully integrated systems vendor in the world and hold the place that IBM did back in the 1960s.
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September 8 , 2009 -
Hitachi NAS platforms target mid-market space
Hitachi Data Systems (NYSE: HIT) has moved to fill a hole in its solution line-up with the launch of the Hitachi NAS 3080 and 3090, two new network attached storage (NAS) platforms that aim to offer performance, scalability, consolidation and management that's tailored for the mid-market.
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April 21, 2009
Oracle/Sun deal ideal for Sun partners
Sun Microsystems' (Nasdaq: JAVA) board of directors has unanimously approved the approximately $7.4 billion transaction for Oracle to acquire the Mountain View, Calif.-based Silicon Valley pioneer and so has the Canadian channel.
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November 17 , 2009
Hitachi taps HighVail Systems' storage expertise
When Hitachi Data Systems launched its new AMS 2000 Adaptable Modular Storage Family last month, it did so with a little help from a Canadian solutions provider and its clients.
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September 24 , 2009
Executive Class: Bradley Brodkin, President of HighVail Systems
Brodkin heads HighVail Systems, a Toronto-based company that builds and maintains information architecture for companies such as Scotia Capital and Toyota.
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