Recent Articles
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IBM Offers Cloud Training, Resources to Partners
This week IBM locked its targets in on enabling its channel to take better advantage of the cloud by rolling out a new initiative that it says will provide partners the means to improve their cloud skill sets and minimize the steps required to start selling cloud-based solutions. Offered initially as a pilot program to…
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More Than Half of Enterprise Email Will Live in the Cloud By 2020
Web-based e-mail will comprise at least 10 percent of the license seats in enterprises through 2014, but will hit 55 percent by 2020 as it reaches mass adoption, according to Gartner. Web-based, or cloud e-mail, is hosted by providers such as Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), VMware’s Zimbra unit and several startups, and provisioned to users…
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Salesforce Adds Help Desk with Assistly Buy
Salesforce.com leader Marc Benioff has announced that his company is "doubling down" on its Salesforce Service Cloud portfolio by spending $50 million to buy Assistly, an instant customer-service help desk built for the cloud. "(It puts) us at the heart of the new trend of customer service help desk applications that have instant sign up…
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Channel Finds Cloud Seeded with Cash
Despite much hand wringing over the impact of cloud in the channel, many companies are beginning to gain a clearer – and more relief-tinged – picture of what the model means to the industry at large and their own business roadmaps. Clearly for the channel, the devil is in the details. Companies today are determining…
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HP Channel Partners Open Cloud Centers of Excellence
Technology giant Hewlett-Packard announced that 19 HP Cloud Centers of Excellence have been established in 2011 at partner facilities throughout the United States. The centers are designed to enable clients to gain knowledge of, and experience, the benefits of cloud computing technologies such as accelerated service delivery and operational efficiency. A total of 40 centers…
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Demand for Cloud-Based Applications Rising Among SMBs: Report
Half the employees at small and midsize businesses are estimated to be working outside the office, and a quarter of SMBs’ staff works outside the firm at any given time, at any given time, according to a new study, entitled "State-of-the-Market 2011 Report: Mobility Trends in SMBs." The report, released by business communications specialist Fonality…