Recent Articles
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Nimbula Updates Infrastructure as a Service
Silicon Valley cloud firm Nimbula updated its Infrastructure as a Service Platform (IaaS) platform today and unveiled a number of new partnerships in order to give users more simple control over their compute and storage resources. Immediately available, Nimbula Director 1.5 now supports a geographically distributed cloud, offering users the ability to manage a multi-site…
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Microsoft Cloud Service Provider Enterhost Launches Partner Program
Internet cloud services provider Enterhost is reaching out to potential partners with the launch of its new channel program, announced at the MSPWorld conference in Austin, Texas. Enterhost, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, is a customized cloud-solution provider specializing in Windows applications with a focus on cloud desktop and private cloud services. The company also…
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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…