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Cloud Services Momentum on Track Among SMBs, Report Finds
Early results from IT research firm AMI-Partners’ World Wide Cloud Services study indicated small to medium-size businesses are rapidly adopting a variety of cloud services consistent with their stated intentions over the past 12-18 months. The study concluded with the economic situation still in a state of flux particularly across North America and Europe, cloud…
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Open Source Cloud Computing Channel Friendly Vendors Who Support It
Open Source Cloud Computing Channel Friendly Vendors Who Support It Rackspace HostingRackspace Hosting (www.rackspace.com) announced the OpenStack (www.openstack.org) project on July 19th. The open source cloud platform was designed to foster the emergence of technology standards and cloud interoperability. Nearly 30 vendors and organizations, including NASA (www.nasa.gov) have signed on since launch day. No Title…
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The Trouble with Managed Services: Making the Move to a New Business Model
Cloud, cloud, cloud. That’s all vendors talk about these days. It’s just about all Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talked about during his keynote address at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference last month (or as he would say it: "Cloud, cloud, cloud, blah blah blah"), and it’s clear that managed services, cloud and software as a…
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Asigra, 6fusion Partner for MSP Instant Cloud Backup
Looking to make it easier for MSPs to offer cloud backup services, backup software and recovery vendor Asigra has partnered with infrastructure-as-a-service provider 6fusion. The partnership gives VARs and MSPs a quick entry to offering cloud backup services without upfront capital cost. Asigra is in use by many MSPs playing in the cloud backup space.…
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VMware Announces Hyperic Application Monitoring Solution
Virtualization solutions specialist VMware announced SpringSource Hyperic 4.4, a solution designed for for management and monitoring of custom applications. Through integration with VMware’s vCenter Server, Hyperic 4.4 now maintains a continually updated inventory of the company’s vSphere ESXi and ESX hosts, enabling IT administrators to more rapidly pinpoint, correct and prevent application performance problems when…
