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  • Cablevision’s 101M-bps Broadband a Boon to Hosted Services

    One of the biggest barriers to adopting hosted services has been bandwidth. Most businesses have had to pay through the nose to get the bandwidth needed to effectively use a hosted service, while others have found that the speeds needed are out of financial reach. Cablevision, in a roundabout way, is solving that problem for…

  • Agent-Driven Managed Services

    The tide is finally turning in the managed services market as the convergence of market acceptance and economic conditions is making it more palatable for end users to adopt remotely delivered infrastructure management and hosted applications. Troubling to some solution providers is that they will not be the ones delivering the actual services. Managed services…

  • MXLogic Study Shows Managed Services Continue Steady Growth

    In an economic climate where “Hello, can I interest you in upgrading your servers?” won’t get solution providers very far, an MXLogic study finds that VARs are finding success leading with managed services to help customers cut costs and increase efficiencies. “You just can’t walk into a CIO’s office anymore with a pitch to upgrade…

  • Microsoft Expands Online Services Globally

    Microsoft is making a major push in online services, expanding the availability of cloud-based versions of popular business applications such as Exchange, SharePoint and Live Meeting globally and increasing its data center capacity through a partnership with Hewlett-Packard’s EDS services division. More than 4,000 solution providers are registered to sell Microsoft Online applications, and until…

  • HP Unveils ProCurve Firewall, Security Ambitions

    The pantheon of major security players includes the likes of Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks, IBM, Symantec, McAfee and even Microsoft. Missing among the noted is Hewlett-Packard, which has fielded security products over the years, but not a concerted effort to stake out a piece of the security market. That’s changing, rapidly. Today, HP unveils its…

  • Xerox Updates Managed Services Program

     Xerox Corp. is introducing Xerox Print Services, a set of services and tools designed to help small and midsized businesses better manage their printing infrastructure and reduce costs. Delivered through the company’s network of channel partners, Xerox Print Services is based on the company’s enterprise managed print services that Xerox provides directly to corporations like…

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