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Channel Headlines from Around the Web
Image via Wikipedia There’s been plenty of consternation among a healthy number of channel partners about Microsoft’s Office 365 plans. The successor to BPOS is Microsoft’s cloud plan in terms of Office applications. But the company’s plans to offer resellers a commission and not let them handle the billing has many a channel partner telling…
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SAP Teams Up With Verizon on Cloud Application Delivery
Network operator Verizon and SAP America, a subsidiary of SAP AG, are jointly delivering the SAP CRM rapid-deployment platform to enterprise workers through Verizon’s cloud offering, Computing as a Service. Workers will now be able to access SAP CRM from their desktops or their mobile devices, the companies announced. As part of the SAP CRM…
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Microsoft’s Cloud Strategy Relies on Partners
It’s no secret that Microsoft faces a host of challenges as it attempts to shift its focus from the traditional and desktop-bound to a more cloud-centric, mobile-focused model. For companies with tens of thousands of employees and decades’ worth of institutional memory, recoding the corporate DNA to meet new challenges is an undertaking with a…
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Microsoft, RIM Join Forces on Cloud Solution for PlayBook, BlackBerry
Research In Motion is planning to partner with Microsoft on the latter’s cloud offerings, which will be integrated into BlackBerry devices as well as the upcoming Playbook tablet. “Cloud has always been core to our business,” Alec Taylor, vice president of Software, Services and Enterprise Marketing for RIM, told analysts and reporters listening to a…
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Cloud Computing Transforming the Modern Data Center: Gartner
Many IT industry people believe that the incorporation of cloud computing services and systems is the single most impactful trend in data center construction and management, and all the indicators certainly point in that direction. In sanctioning this, market researcher Gartner is venturing further, declaring that there are no fewer than four important forces now…
