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  • N-Able Brings iPhone Support to N-Central 8.0

    Remote monitoring and management and automation software provider N-able Technologies is bringing a mobile user interface to its next version N-central 8.0, available now. The support for mobile clients is available on Apple’s iOS first starting now and the Android platform in the 8.1 release later this year. Why? Because every single MSP is using…

  • How Is Cloud Computing Changing the Supply Chain?

    By Sam Liu Imagine a world without grid-based electrical service such as those provided by large utility companies. What would that look like? You’d have an ecosystem of companies that manufacture generators, distributors who stock an inventory in various regional locations, and a community of resellers and service providers who would offer electrical service to…

  • Billbull

    Billbull Created by a law staffing agency, this iOS app tracks time or allows manual entry of time against your phone’s contact list and allows you to export a CSV file to a spreadsheet program for central tracking. www.exparte-staffing.com TimeDroid This straightforward time tracker&#151with timer and manual entry&#151is designed for Freshbooks users on the road…

  • Cisco Launches Containerized, Modular Data Center

    Cisco Systems is targeting public and private sector organizations with its new transportable data center unit – a containerized and modular data center system that will feature 44RU of mountable rack space. The modular data center container system is built in the United States as a weatherized outdoor container, but it can also be installed…

  • Cloud Computing Era Could Mean MSP Extinction

    “Managed Service Providers will be obsolete in the next five to ten years.” Those blunt words come from Saeer Butts, a senior software architect at one of those MSPs, Zaphyr Technologies, in Parsippany, N.J. The cloud will put MSPs out of business, Butts said. As customers move more of their infrastructure to hosted environments, monitoring…

  • Amazon Apologizes, Explains Cloud Outage

    A week after Amazon Web Services suffered an outage of its Elastic Compute Cloud aka EC2, Amazon finally came forward with an explanation of what happened, an apology to the many companies that were affected, and information about what Amazon plans to do to prevent such events in the future. The apology and explanation included…

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