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Microsoft and Athenahealth Partner on Patient Information Sharing Solution
Microsoft is teaming up with athenahealth, a web-based practice management, electronic health record and patient communication services vendor, on an electronic health solution intended to improve communication between hospitals, doctors and patients. The cloud-based solution combines athenahealth’s hosted services – athenaClinicals and athenaCollector – with Microsoft’s Amalga enterprise health intelligence platform software. The combined solution…
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Don’t Sit Out The Cloud
This time you can’t afford to hesitate. When managed services were taking off six years ago, a great many solution providers sat on the sidelines trying to get a sense of where the trend would lead. But with cloud-based services, sitting around may well put the future of your business in jeopardy. You see, while…
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Dell Server Business Gets Boost from Cloud
Cloud computing, virtualization and workload migrations are helping to boost Dell’s server business, as the company continues its transition to a solutions provider, according to Dell executive Forrest Norrod. In a recent interview with eWEEK, Forrest Norrod, vice president and general manager of Dell’s Server Platforms business, said that even though the company is rapidly…
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IBM Recruiting MSPs, SAAS Providers
IBM is quietly working to build its MSP channel by creating programs to help traditional VARs add or migrate to the emerging business model and also by recruiting MSPs to its traditional channel program. The quiet moves come amid a time when IBM and other big vendors are talking in broad terms about the cloud…
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Oracle Introduces Cloud File System for Private Clouds
To help organizations deploy their applications, databases and storage in the cloud, Oracle has introduced the Cloud File System, giving businesses a platform that extends cloud characteristics to their storage by enabling more effective storage pooling through a network-accessible elastic storage cloud. The Cloud File System is available now and is priced at $5,000 per…