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Services Marketplace Gets Cloudy
Image via Wikipedia Everybody is talking this week about HP’s most recent service offering announcement, HP Strategic IT Advisory Services, which the company says is designed to “help CIOs use IT as a key driver of innovation, growth and profitability.” That’s because what this new offering provides sounds a lot like what channel partners provide…
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Amazon Web Services Five-Day Outage Sparks Debate About the Cloud
Five full days after its largest outage hit on the morning of April 21, Amazon Web Services said it finally has restored virtually all services to its customers. However, there still are a lot of smoldering IT managers who haven’t yet cooled off completely from the outage that started at 1:41 a.m. PDT April 21…
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Dumping Product Sales for Managed Services
Are you calling yourself a managed services provider but still making most of your money from other revenue streams? Jim Hare, vice president of sales at eGestalt, says that only about 10 percent of the channel who say they do managed services actually have a full fledged managed services business. The others are dipping toes…
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SugarSync Launches Android AutoSync Backup
Online file backup provider SugarSync on April 25 launched a rebuilt application for Android devices that features SugarSync’s primary market differentiator, AutoSync. AutoSync synchronizes files and folders between any combination of Macs, Windows PCs, iOS and Android smartphones, and iPads—with all files backed up to the SugarSync cloud. All data is then instantly available from…
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Amazon EC2 Outage Takes Down Reddit, Hootsuite
Amazon’s EC2 cloud computing service is currently experiencing an outage that is affecting several major websites including Reddit and Hootsuite. A message on the Reddit site said: "Amazon is currently experiencing a degradation. They are working on it. We are still waiting on them to get to our volumes. Sorry." The Amazon Web Services Service…
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Intel Earnings Strong as Mobililty, Cloud Computing Grow
Despite a challenging first quarter and weakening consumer demand, strong business spending and emerging markets are driving demand for Intel’s traditional businesses. Company executives are expecting the momentum to continue for the rest of 2011 as the company strengthens its presence in the mobile device segment. During an April 19 conference call with analysts and…
