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How Is Cloud Computing Changing the Supply Chain?
By Sam Liu Imagine a world without grid-based electrical service such as those provided by large utility companies. What would that look like? You’d have an ecosystem of companies that manufacture generators, distributors who stock an inventory in various regional locations, and a community of resellers and service providers who would offer electrical service to…
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Cloud Computing Era Could Mean MSP Extinction
“Managed Service Providers will be obsolete in the next five to ten years.” Those blunt words come from Saeer Butts, a senior software architect at one of those MSPs, Zaphyr Technologies, in Parsippany, N.J. The cloud will put MSPs out of business, Butts said. As customers move more of their infrastructure to hosted environments, monitoring…
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VMWare Buys Online Presentation Service SlideRocket
VMware on April 26 acquired a new whiz-bang feature to add to its growing stock of cloud-based products: SlideRocket, an online business-presentation service that competes directly against Microsoft PowerPoint and Adobe PDF. Terms of the transaction to purchase the 25-person, San Francisco-based company were not disclosed by VMware. SlideRocket, founded in 2007, is currently being…