Rackspace is now firmly signaling that it wants to work more closely with channel partners that provide complementary managed services to its own. Read more...
The competition between providers of software-as-a-service applications is about to heat up, and the two big drivers are going to be Salesforce and Oracle. Read more...
Born-of-the-cloud distributor AppDirect is rebranding its services to make it simpler for solution providers to consume them a la carte via an API. Read more...
Companies like Intermedia help straddle the divide between Microsoft and smaller partners. Read more...
Solution providers' fight for control over individual workloads is starting to resemble trench warfare. IT vendors hope to supply arms to CSPs and classic resellers alike. Read more...
Solution providers might find trying to support OpenStack on Linux alongside instances of VMware running on Windows and Linux to be an expensive proposition. Read more...
How much money partners can make on cloud apps like Microsoft Office 365 is not as important as the amount of services revenue these migration projects can generate. Read more...
OpenStack will most likely be closely associated with new application deployments involving emerging technologies, such as containers. Read more...
