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Smartphones Meet Remote Control in the Cloud: The Channel Opportunity
At a recent family function, I noticed one of my cousins at one point fiddling with his smartphone, looking as if he was about to devour the display. Ever the helpful relative, I wasted no time schooling him on the etiquette of ignoring the people around you to mess with your smartphone. We both laughed…
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VMware Launches vSphere 5
SAN FRANCISCO – A significant number of IT professionals already know this and aren’t going to like hearing it, but VMware CEO Paul Maritz believes that "most people just want IT infrastructure to go away." So VMware is here to help enterprises do this by selling them vSphere 5, a new cloud computing infrastructure suite…
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Citrix’s Cloud.com Acquisition Bolsters Its Cloud Development Portfolio
Citrix has finished its acquisition of Cloud.com, a provider of software-infrastructure platforms for cloud providers. Cloud.com’s products include the CloudStack product line, designed for the deployment and management of cloud services. In theory, these assets will give Citrix a boost in its cloud-deployment aims. More than 30 percent of enterprises are deploying at least one…
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Microsoft Talks Cloud, Office 365, But Not Billing
While keynote addresses on Microsoft’s second day of its Worldwide Partner Conference were all about cloud and mobility, no mention was made about the issue that’s been at the crux of why many partners have been slow to adopt Microsoft BPOS and Microsoft Office 365. Who owns the billing? VARs and MSPs want to bundle…
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Glowpoint Completes Acquistion of Avaya Managed Video Services
Cloud managed video services provider Glowpoint announced that it completed its acquisition of pieces of Avaya’s Managed Service for Video platform. Glowpoint issued about 770,000 shares of common stock to Avaya for its assets, including telepresence and video conferencing endpoints and network infrastructure used to deliver cloud managed video services to enterprise customers, the company…