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SMBs Turning to Backup in the Cloud: Forrester
Small to midsize businesses are beginning to move toward cloud-based backup (as opposed to traditional technologies) to protect their company data, according to a Forrester Research survey whose goal was to discover the drivers for the move to cloud-based recovery tech versus traditional on-premises solutions. The report, commissioned by cloud-basked backup specialist Asigra, found that…
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Tripwire’s Cloud Security Launched for Partners
Security and compliance vendor Tripwire is changing its sales paradigm with by shifting its licensing to flat-rate model that it hopes will prove to be friendlier to service providers and could stand as an example of how security vendors cater to the managed services market in the near future. The shift is part of the…
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Google Brings User Managed Storage to Apps Customers
Taking a page out of the books of Web-based storage providers, Google March 1 began offering User Managed Storage to meet Google Apps customers’ requirements for additional space for their content in the cloud. Google Apps is the search engine’s suite of e-mail, document, presentation, spreadsheet and other apps, all residing on servers in Google’s…
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Home-Based Businesses Grew in 2010: AMI Report
There was an 11 percent increase in those who started their home-based business due to downsizing last year in the United States last year, according to a report from AMI Partners. The report noted last year sole proprietorships made up two-thirds of the home-based business market, this year it is only one-third of the total…
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Salesforce.com Incorporates Twitter, Facebook in Service Cloud 3
NEW YORK—Salesforce.com unveiled its Service Cloud 3 platform March 3, coupling the announcement to a high-profile event at New York City’s Javits Center headlined by CEO Marc Benioff. The third iteration of Salesforce’s cloud-based customer service platform lets businesses analyze and respond to customer feedback filtering from social networks such as Twitter and Facebook. The…
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Cisco Partner Summit Report: Big Private Cloud Growth Ahead
NEW ORLEANS — Cisco told channel partners gathered here this week for the Cisco Partner Summit that it’s not looking to become a cloud provider itself. Rather, Cisco executives said, the company wants to enable channel partners to build cloud architecture and develop cloud services to sell to customers using Cisco gear. To help, Cisco…