Year: 2009
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IBM Targets SMBs with Cloud-Based IT Monitoring
IBM is reaching out to small-medium businesses with online software intended to help monitor, predict and prevent IT outages. Tivoli Live Monitoring Services is being offered on a monthly subscription basis and Big Blue’s channel partners can sell it either as an agent or as a host, says IBM’s Dave Mitchell, Director of Strategy and… Read more
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IT Jobs Gaining Ground Again
Even though the overall economy is still shedding jobs instead of adding them, IT job creation seems to have turned a corner. U.S. employment numbers released last week by the U.S. Department of Labor showed a third straight month of improvement in IT-related employment. Categories that grew included those in professional and technical services businesses… Read more
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EMC Delivers on Storage Tiering Vision
Originally announced by EMC in April, the fully automated storage tiering (FAST) vision ‘to revolutionize the way storage is managed’ is now ready for prime time, says Scott Delandy, senior product manager, EMC. He likens today’s storage environment to that of a jet. "If you think about aviation and flying jets, years ago you had… Read more
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MSPSN Sold to Investment Group
High Street Technology Ventures, a consortium of investors, is buying MSPSN, one of the more active networks of managed service providers founded by MSP maven Amy Luby, for an undisclosed amount. The announcement of the sale is happening this morning in Washington, D.C., at the CompTIA MSP Business Simulation Experience, a managed services training program… Read more
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Rackspace Revamps Channel Program
Rackspace, one of the leaders in hosted services and cloud computing, is restructuring its channel programs to attract more partners and provide existing resellers with incentives for selling its hosted services. "We regard partners as an extension of the Rackspace family and have updated the Rackspace Partner Network to help ensure they receive the services… Read more
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Cisco, Savvis Team Up to Build Private Clouds
Categories: Tech CompaniesIt looks like Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) is taking a step forward from theory to reality with the newly announced partnership with infrastructure-as-a-service provider Savvis, which will leverage Cisco’s virtualized data center technology to build and deliver private clouds to the enterprise. This is reportedly the first such private cloud partnership in Cisco’s virtualized… Read more