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Industrialized, Low Cost IT Services The New Norm
Gartner this week touted the adoption of industrialized, low-cost IT services (ILCS) as one of the best ways CIOs can reduce the cost of keeping the lights on in the coming years. A subset of both managed services and cloud services–certainly leveraging the benefits of cloud architecture–ILCS is best seen in the burgeoning infrastructure utility…
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Managed Security Services Continue Growth Pace
New research out from market analysis firm Infonetics Research showed that in spite of a stagnant economy, managed security services are experiencing a brisk rate of growth with no signs of letting up through the next few years. In 2011, Infonetics believes that the managed security market will reach 13 percent growth. By 2015, Infonetics…
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Zenith Infotech Spins off Managed Services Group
Remote monitoring and cloud computing solutions provider Zenith Infotech announced that its managed services business unit has been spin off and is now operating as a new and separate company called Zenith RMM. The company noted Summit Partners made a “sizable” growth equity investment. Summit’s John Carroll and Jason Glass will join the Zenith RMM…
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SonicWALL Woos MSPs with New Partner Program
Network security vendor SonicWALL rolled out a new managed service provider program this month that it says will provide MSPs more flexible monthly service billing and give them better tools to manage their SonicWall-enabled service portfolio. "At SonicWALL, we continuously strive to drive technology, but we also understand the business challenges that our partners are…
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Cloupia Launches Open Automation for Clouds
Cloud automation and management software provider Cloupia announced Open Automation for Clouds, allowing its customers and partners to extend, add or enhance data center management and operations automation in addition to its Cloupia Unified Infrastructure Controller (CUIC) cloud and data center automation capabilities. The company’s Open Automation for Clouds capability provides customers with a way…
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Parallels Releases Automation for Cloud Infrastructure Solution
Hosting and cloud services enablement specialist Parallels announced the availability of Parallels Automation for Cloud Infrastructure, a scalable solution for service providers to deliver cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) to small to medium-size businesses. PACI provides hosting control, from provisioning and billing to self-service management and security. It is ready to deploy on any…