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Spiceworks Partners with Rackspace on Hosted E-Mail
Rackspace Hosting, a provider of hosting and cloud computing, has joined forces with Spiceworks to help small to medium-size businesses manage their Rackspace e-mail hosting services through the free Spiceworks social IT management application. The integrated systems help streamline the jobs of SMB IT professionals by allowing them to monitor and administrate Rackspace cloud e-mail…
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Channel Partners: Microsoft Windows Intune Not a Threat
Those entrenched in the managed services market could have viewed Microsoft’s announcement this week of the Microsoft Windows Intune hosted managed service as a competitive threat that could disrupt the growing market for managed services. But instead, those contacted by Channel Insider said they are enthusiastic about the Microsoft Windows Intune offering. Microsoft is piloting…
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Top 5 Mobile Enterprise Influencers
Mobile maturity in the enterprise has finally arrived, and plenty of IT solution providers have recognized that offering a mobile services practice – integrating mobile devices to the IT infrastructure — can bring in an additional stream of services revenue. Channel Insider takes a look at some of the vendors who are shaping the mobile…
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CTERA Rolls Out Channel-Friendly Cloud Storage Portal
Hybrid cloud-based storage and data protection vendor CTERA Networks is reaching out to service providers, including MSPs and resellers, with a cloud platform that is a turnkey solution for delivering cloud-based storage and data protection services, from creating service plans to remote maintenance of appliances, including the CloudPlug and C200. Available immediately in SaaS and…
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Qwest Gets Into Managed Security, Network Management Services
Qwest Communications announced the launch of two managed solutions, Qwest iQTM Managed Security Service and Qwest iQTM Network Management Service, which deliver on a relationship Qwest and IBM previously announced to provide a technology ecosystem specifically designed for businesses with 15,000 employees or fewer. MMS helps reduce the costs and complexities associated with managing security…
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New President Takes the Reins at Tigerpaw
Though he’s been filling the role behind the scenes for the past five months, James Foxall today officially became president of Tigerpaw, the software vendor that makes CRM, PSA and other business productivity tools for managed services providers and other channel organizations. Foxall takes the reins at a time of major activity for Tigerpaw. In…