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Cloud Adoption Is Shifting to Its ‘Second Wave’
Cloud Adoption Is Shifting to Its ‘Second Wave’ Cloud Adoption Is Shifting to Its ‘Second Wave’ In the ‘second wave’ of cloud adoption, businesses are focusing on sales growth and innovation—in addition to earlier goals concerning cost and efficiency. High Expectations 53% of companies expect the cloud to drive higher revenue over the next two…
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File-Sync and -Share Battle Heats Up
File sync and share File-Sync and -Share Battle Heats Up A survey of large enterprises finds that Amazon and Microsoft are locked in a fight for control over file-synchronization and -sharing services. Making the FSS Decision IT managers dominate the decision process. Just over a third (36%) identified the IT director followed by the CIO,…
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VAR Dynamics Aims to Alter Cloud Channel Economics
One of the primary issues solution providers face when shifting to the cloud is all the capital costs associated with setting up a cloud management platform. Everything from hosting the applications to managing the billing process winds up eating at the bottom line of solution providers that generally don’t wind up making money on any…
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Scality Aims to Help Channel Bridge Storage Divide
With a major shift toward software-defined storage (SDS)—which is attached directly to a server, rather than a storage array—gaining momentum, many solution providers are trying to figure out how best to tap into that opportunity. With that goal in mind Scality, a provider of software designed to manage petabytes of storage using object-based software running…
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Productivity App Use in Cloud Shifts to Microsoft
Cloud productivity Productivity App Use in Cloud Shifts to Microsoft A new report points to a major spike in the use of cloud productivity applications, but much of that can be attributed to the adoption of Microsoft Office 365. Use of Cloud Productivity Apps Nearly half (48%) of the IT organizations sampled have users accessing…
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AirVM Unveils New Cloud Management Platform
AirVM Intros New Cloud Management Platform Cloud management platform company AirVM unveiled AirSembly 2.0, a turnkey cloud management platform designed to enable cloud service providers to customize and integrate to speed delivery of VMware-based cloud services. Aimed at VMware vCloud Air Network Managed Service Providers (MSPs), AirSembly 2.0 features a new user interface (UI) and…
