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Amazon Web Services Launches ElastiCache Service
Amazon Web Services has announced Amazon ElastiCache, a new Web service that makes it easy to deploy, operate and scale an in-memory cache for Web applications running in the AWS cloud. Amazon officials said the new service improves the performance of web applications by enabling customers to retrieve information from a fast, managed, in-memory caching…
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Drobo & Carbonite Partner for Storage & Cloud Backup Solutions
Drobo, makers of data storage products for small and midsize businesses, and Carbonite, a provider of online backup solutions which provide customers with "anytime, anywhere access" to their stored files, announced a partnership under which the companies will collaborate to provide small businesses with an onsite storage and cloud backup solution. Pursuant to the partnership,…
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Microsoft’s Office 365 Experiences Outages: Reports
Microsoft’s Office 365 seems to be experiencing some outages. "We apologize for the inconvenience that the Office 365 outage has caused today. We re sic are working on resolving the issue," read an Aug. 17 tweet posted at 3:30 EST on Microsoft’s cloud-services Twitter account. Around 20 minutes later, Microsoft’s official Office 365 Twitter account…
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Amazon’s AWS GovCloud Lets U.S. Agencies Move to the Cloud
Amazon Web Services has announced AWS GovCloud, a new AWS Region designed to enable U.S. government agencies to move more sensitive workloads into the cloud by addressing their specific regulatory and compliance requirements. Previously, government agencies with data subject to compliance regulations such as the ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations), which governs how organizations…
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Managed Services Offer SMBs Challenges, Opportunities: Survey
Technology VARs are increasingly focused on selling managed services to help small and midsize businesses monitor, manage and maintain their IT networks and equipment. However, according to a study released by CIT Group, a provider of vendor financing solutions, the benefits of offloading IT services — lower costs, increased available resources and reduced IT headcount…
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Computer Services Acquires Cloud Specialist HEIT
Compliance and document delivery solutions specialist Computer Services Inc. (CSI) announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire HEIT, a provider of cloud-based managed compliance, security and IT services. The acquisition of HEIT, which operates two secured data centers, located in Fort Collins, Colo., and Austin, Texas, would make CSI one of…