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CompTIA Breakaway: Cloud Vendors on Parade
Managed services and cloud computing took center stage at the CompTIA Breakaway conference in Washington DC this week, as standing-room-only cloud seminars attracted hundreds of IT solution providers and vendors took advantage of the opportunity to talk about their cloud wares. Here’s a look at some of the vendors and products at the event. Intronis.com…
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Autotask
Autotask Ever since it first started sniffing around the remote monitoring and management (RMM) market , Spiceworks has been siphoning SMB prospects and customers away from Autotask. Now with its Request for Quote service, Spiceworks is at it again, competing with Autotask’s VARStreet program. IT Toolbox In the process of supporting its IT administrator users,…
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25 Facts About Spiceworks
25 Facts About Spiceworks 1. Spiceworks was first founded in 2006 by Scott Abel, Jay Hallberg, Greg Kattawar, and Francis Sullivan, who brought experience from Motive Inc, Tivoli Software, Apple, and NeXT to the table. No Title 2. The company first started with the goal to round up 3,000 users in the first year. Instead,…
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Small Business Embracing Cloud Computing, Mobility
A third of small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have already adopted the cloud in one way or another, and another 35 percent are expected to invest in cloud computing technology in some form in the next year, according to the latest research from CompTIA. As technology becomes more affordable and constrained budgets begin to open…
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HP Lastest Partner in OpenStack Cloud Project
Hewlett-Packard is jumping on the OpenStack cloud computing bandwagon, a day after rival Dell unveiled a cloud computing solution based on the open-source software stack. In a blog post July 27, Emil Sayegh, vice president of cloud services for HP, said the company had joined the OpenStack project, which was kicked off a year ago…
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CompTIA Report Finds Businesses More Mobile, Competitive With the Cloud
Small and midsized businesses intend to expand their use of technology to improve customer interactions, mobility options and operational efficiencies, according to a study released by CompTIA, a nonprofit trade association for the IT industry. Seven out of 10 SMBs surveyed said they expect to increase their technology spending over the next 12 months, according…
