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Microsoft Aligns With NetEnrich on Azure Migrations
As part of an effort to significantly expand the consumption of cloud services on the Microsoft Azure platform, Microsoft is enlisting the aid of NetEnrich to provide its partners with a white-label service they can invoke to move application workloads into Azure. NetEnrich CEO Raju Chekuri said the goal behind the alliance is to give…
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Why Storage Is Crucial to Cloud Service Providers
Cloud services Why Storage Is Crucial to Cloud Service Providers The lion’s share of CSPs have virtualized more than 80% of their environments, and almost a third spend more than 10% of their revenue on storage. State of Virtualization 75% of CSPs have virtualized more than 80% of their applications. Lots of VMs 67% of…
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Unigma Rises to Cloud-Monitoring Challenge
Unigma rolled out a set of IT monitoring tools geared for the top-three infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offerings that is designed specifically for IT service providers. Designed to give providers of IT services simultaneous visibility into Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Compute Engine, the tools use the APIs those cloud service providers (CSPs) expose…
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How the Cloud Is Changing the IT Business Climate
Cloud innovation How the Cloud Is Changing the IT Business Climate The cloud is starting to dominate the IT landscape, and half the workload in the cloud represents use cases that were not available in the client/server era. The Size of the Greater Cloud IDC predicts that greater cloud spending will exceed $500 billion by…
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The Cloud’s Silver Linings and Challenges
Cloud challenges The Cloud’s Silver Linings and Challenges Cloud usage is pervasive. As the balance of cloud computing power shifts between vendors, we look at the opportunities and challenges ahead. Cloud Usage Is Pervasive Almost all organizations surveyed (93%) are using at least one cloud service. The top three most-used cloud services are Web hosting…
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Dimension Data Launches Cisco Spark Services
Dimension Data Launches Cisco Spark Services Dimension Data launched Cisco Spark and Spark Hybrid Services globally, leveraging its global footprint and managed and application development services to offer Spark and its hybrid services in 58 countries. Spark provides cloud-based business communications that enable customers to message, meet and call anyone on mobile devices, desktops or…
