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Storage Solutions Head for the On Demand Cloud
With customers re-evaluating their capital IT budgets, but still seeing the need for more and more storage and storage solutions every year, cloud storage is generating a lot of buzz among solution providers looking to on demand storage. The technology can offer cost savings, incredible scalability, high availability and the flexibility of on-demand capacity. In…
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Going Green, from Desktop to Data Center
The plunge in oil prices couching the ongoing economic downturn could foster complacency about going green, but IT vendors are doing their best to prevent that. From the desktop to the data center, vendors are pushing technology and services that reduce power consumption and boost technology performance. It may be cheaper to drive than it…
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SIMTone Puts the Silver Lining on Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is gaining greater appeal in these difficult economic times. Many startups and small businesses are looking for ways to contain their IT costs and budget appropriately. SIMtone is aiming to help solution providers meet those budgetary needs by offering a platform that can be used to create cloud-based environments at a fixed, subscription-based…
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Managed Services: Inhibitor or Enabler?
As technology evolves, the managed services platform either stands in the way or serves as an enabler. “I think that is going to be the big question, and I don’t think people have thought about it very much,” says Level Platforms CEO Peter Sandiford. To Sandiford, the answer is clear: The platform must be an…
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Tough Times Drive Managed Services
Right about now a lot of vendors that declined to create specific channel programs around managed service offerings should be kicking themselves. As the economy continues to lose steam it is becoming pretty clear that managed services have a lot of counter cyclical economic potential. What creates that potential is the simple fact that…
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Microsoft Cloud Tops Biggest Threat to Managed Services Solution Builders
Deep in the heart of Texas lies a shimmering new, massive Microsoft data center designed specifically for delivering hosted and managed services, such as Windows Live and Office Live. The San Antonio facility is one of several new data centers being built around the world by the software giant, which aims to transform its model…