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Winter Edition of Hot Channel Stories from All Over
This week’s company to watch MSP Mentor did a great job of laying out why MSPs and VARs should watch Parallels. The cloud and virtualization company, known for its Mac desktop virtualization software, named a new CEO and held its Parallels Summit in Orlando, Fla. this week. As MSP Mentor reports, plenty of channel and…
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Cisco’s Hosted E-Mail Service Says Goodbye
Cisco Systems pulled the plug on Cisco Mail, the hosted e-mail service it launched a mere 13 months ago. While Cisco Mail was “well received,” Cisco found that customers were not interested in hosted e-mail as much as they cared about “social software and video,” Cisco said in a Feb. 22 blog post announcing the…
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Juniper Launches QFabric Networking Platform
Juniper Networks is rolling out a new networking platform executives say will simplify the data center infrastructure, driving up throughput, scalability and efficiency while reducing latency, operating costs and the number of devices required for a networking architecture. During a Webcast event from San Francisco Feb. 23, Juniper executives unveiled their QFabric architecture, a $100…
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Parallels Debuts Cloud Infrastructure Services, Hosted PBX
Hosting and cloud services specialist Parallels announced the introduction of cloud infrastructure and hosted PBX platforms, as well as support for Microsoft Office 365 Syndication and Hyper-V Cloud. It is also increasing its investment in facilitating APS-enabled solutions to help independent software vendors (ISVs) ability to also profit from the cloud. Parallels Automation for Cloud…
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Parallels’ New CEO Will Focus on SMB Cloud Services
In the search for a new CEO, virtualization software maker Parallels stayed close to home and named one of its own senior executives to the post. Birger Steen, the current president of Parallels, has been promoted to CEO, effective Feb. 23, the company said. Company founder and outgoing CEO Sergeui Beloussov announced Steen’s appointment during…
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Are You A Security Threat to Your Clients?
By Mike Semel Are you protecting your clients from… you? As a managed service provider your company has the highest level access to your clients’ networks. You pride yourself on your honesty and integrity, and think that your employees would never do something to hurt you or a client. Besides, even if someone left your…