Managed Services

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  • Rackspace Expands SAAS Offerings to Include Online Storage

    As software as a service has risen to gain the attention of more business customers and solution providers, plenty of service providers have cropped up with offerings that solution providers could private-label to their customers. Hosting provider Rackspace has been no exception, rolling out a hosted e-mail service and then a hosted Microsoft Exchange service.…

  • Top SaaS Growth Markets

    Top SaaS Growth Markets Momentum continues to build behind software as a service. Gartner is forecasting worldwide software SaaS revenue to hit $7.5 billion in 2009, a 17.7 percent increase from 2008 revenue of $6.4 billion. And it’s not stopping there. Expectations for sales total $14 billion by 2013. Channel Insider breaks out the most…

  • Nimsoft Extends Partner Program to Developers, Solution Providers

    Unified monitoring vendor Nimsoft has expanded its channel partner program to formally include two new types of partners beyond its standard managed service provider partners. Nimsoft’s announcement today follows the company’s news from last month that it has created monitoring integrations with four major players in the managed services and SAAS space—Google Apps for Business,…

  • Solution Providers Call VMware View 4 Disruptive, Game-Changing

    Solution providers are viewing the release of VMware View 4 as a game-changing disruptive technology that could revolutionize how IT infrastructure is deployed today. That’s because the technology, announced this week by VMware, delivers a virtualized PC over IP to the client side, simplifying IT management and disaster recovery in addition to significantly reducing costs.…

  • ConnectWise Upgrades Partner Community Platform

    Hot on the heels of a major hardware failure that disrupted service for almost 200 of its 2,400 customers, professional service automation (PSA) vendor ConnectWise is launching its second-generation partner collaboration platform. ConnectWise Network 2.0 offers significant new features and enhancements to its partner community of IT service providers, said Jeannine Edwards, Director of the…

  • Windows 7: The End of an Era

    Nearly 20 years have passed since I first laid eyes on Windows. It was 1990 in the student computer lab at Suffolk University; a room full of bright white Gateway desktops running Windows 3.0. Compared to the GUI-driven Macs I used in high school years earlier, the early version of Windows was kludgy and lacked…

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