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Avnet Intros Tool to Help Partners Manage Cloud Accounts
Avnet Technology Solutions has launched a new tool to help partners in the United States and Canada manage their cloud accounts. Avnet Cloud Toolset (ACT), a component of Avnet Cloud Solutions, helps managed service provider (MSP) and VAR partners consolidate, manage and track cloud accounts across multiple cloud providers. The tool is designed to ensure that…
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Keeping IT Infrastructure Financing Options Open
Although security is among the most common reasons organizations opt to deploy IT on-premise versus the cloud, the decision is more often than not driven by financial rather than technical issues. The simple truth is that many business executives would like to husband their capital by treating IT as an operating expense. However, the dilemma…
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AWS Partners Tout New Cloud Offerings at re:Invent
At the annual AWS re:Invent conference, partners and supporters of Amazon Web Services (AWS) leveraged the show to introduce new products, capabilities and services. The AWS Marketplace is a channel for independent software vendors (ISVs), system integrators (SIs) and VARs to sell their software as integrated solutions on AWS, helping them grow their recurring revenue…
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Channel’s Cloud Reach: From Migration to Troubleshooting
Cloud computing Cloud Consulting Services Are Up 74% of IT channel firms are providing cloud consulting, compared with 67% last year. Cloud Migration Services Grow 72% said they’re overseeing services to migrate customers from one cloud to another, up from 53% in 2013. Managing Multi-Cloud Environments 67% are managing multi-cloud environments for customers, up from…
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AWS Adds Partner Benefits, Extends Channel Reach
Amazon Web Services today expanded the scope of its partner network, while simultaneously announcing a raft of new offerings intended to increase the number of application workloads running on what is already the world’s largest public cloud computing platform. In addition to increasing partner benefits, AWS at the re:Invent 2014 conference launched new managed service…
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Dell Looks to Extend Cloud Marketplace to the Channel
Dell this week launched the public beta of a cloud marketplace that it expects, sometime in the next year, to involve its channel partners that specialize in building clouds. “We’d like our Cloud Builders partners to participate,” said Cheryl Cook, vice president of Dell’s Enterprise Solutions Group. “We’re working through those details now.” The Dell…
