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Mobility, Cloud Offer Opportunities for Businesses: Report
The tech support market for small and midsize businesses will exceed $20 billion by 2015, according to Parks Associates, which notes that the 2008 launch of AT&T’s Tech Support 360 is a significant milestone in this market because this service was the first to integrate communications, data services and technical support on a nationwide level.…
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Avnet Launches Data Center Lifecycle Services Portfolio
Avnet Technology Solutions is launching a new set of services focusing on data center technologies to help partners win business and provide more comprehensive solutions to their customers. The Avnet Data Center Lifecycle Services portfolio combines supplier-branded resold services and managed, cold and professional services that were formerly under Avnet’s SolutionsPath Services brand. The services…
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Industrialized, Low Cost IT Services The New Norm
Gartner this week touted the adoption of industrialized, low-cost IT services (ILCS) as one of the best ways CIOs can reduce the cost of keeping the lights on in the coming years. A subset of both managed services and cloud services–certainly leveraging the benefits of cloud architecture–ILCS is best seen in the burgeoning infrastructure utility…
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Zenith Infotech Spins off Managed Services Group
Remote monitoring and cloud computing solutions provider Zenith Infotech announced that its managed services business unit has been spin off and is now operating as a new and separate company called Zenith RMM. The company noted Summit Partners made a “sizable” growth equity investment. Summit’s John Carroll and Jason Glass will join the Zenith RMM…
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Cloupia Launches Open Automation for Clouds
Cloud automation and management software provider Cloupia announced Open Automation for Clouds, allowing its customers and partners to extend, add or enhance data center management and operations automation in addition to its Cloupia Unified Infrastructure Controller (CUIC) cloud and data center automation capabilities. The company’s Open Automation for Clouds capability provides customers with a way…
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Parallels Releases Automation for Cloud Infrastructure Solution
Hosting and cloud services enablement specialist Parallels announced the availability of Parallels Automation for Cloud Infrastructure, a scalable solution for service providers to deliver cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) to small to medium-size businesses. PACI provides hosting control, from provisioning and billing to self-service management and security. It is ready to deploy on any…