Year: 2015
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VAR Dynamics Aims to Alter Cloud Channel Economics
One of the primary issues solution providers face when shifting to the cloud is all the capital costs associated with setting up a cloud management platform. Everything from hosting the applications to managing the billing process winds up eating at the bottom line of solution providers that generally don’t wind up making money on any… Read more
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Scality Aims to Help Channel Bridge Storage Divide
With a major shift toward software-defined storage (SDS)—which is attached directly to a server, rather than a storage array—gaining momentum, many solution providers are trying to figure out how best to tap into that opportunity. With that goal in mind Scality, a provider of software designed to manage petabytes of storage using object-based software running… Read more
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Productivity App Use in Cloud Shifts to Microsoft
Categories: Cloud ComputingCloud productivity Productivity App Use in Cloud Shifts to Microsoft A new report points to a major spike in the use of cloud productivity applications, but much of that can be attributed to the adoption of Microsoft Office 365. Use of Cloud Productivity Apps Nearly half (48%) of the IT organizations sampled have users accessing… Read more
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Helping Your Customers Make the Transition to IPv6
Categories: Tech AnalysisOne would think that nothing motivates people to action quite like impending disaster. Yet, in the past few years, we’ve seen remarkable complacency among IT customers confronted with warnings of such likelihoods. It’s hard to believe that Y2K is already 15 years behind us, but those Cobol and Fortran programmers who got hauled out of… Read more
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Apple Devices Creating Blind Spot for IT Security
Categories: SecurityApple and IT security Apple Devices Creating Blind Spot for IT Security A recent study finds that most Apple devices used at work have little or no supervision from IT. A surprising percentage of these devices are employee-owned. Prevalence of Apple Devices in the Workplace 45% of workers surveyed use at least one Apple device… Read more
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AirVM Unveils New Cloud Management Platform
AirVM Intros New Cloud Management Platform Cloud management platform company AirVM unveiled AirSembly 2.0, a turnkey cloud management platform designed to enable cloud service providers to customize and integrate to speed delivery of VMware-based cloud services. Aimed at VMware vCloud Air Network Managed Service Providers (MSPs), AirSembly 2.0 features a new user interface (UI) and… Read more