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Upstart Google Apps Looks to Unseat Microsoft Exchange in Enterprise
Think Google Apps are just for consumers and the smallest of businesses? Think Google’s channel program couldn’t possibly offer a business model that works for an IT solution provider? Tell that to Cloud Sherpas. The Atlanta-based IT solution provider was part of Google Apps’ formal channel partner program when Google launched it a year ago…
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Kaseya Launches SaaS-Based Partner Program
Kaseya this week launched a new program for partners that resell or recommend its SaaS-based IT services solutions. The Kaseya SaaS Partner Program is targeted at select partners, including distributors and channel industry associations, that will promote Kaseya’s SaaS-based IT management offerings – initially the Kaseya IT Tool Kit — to the core constituency of…
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Hosted Microsoft Exchange Provider Intermedia Adds Unified Communications
In the dog-eat-dog arena of Microsoft Exchange hosting, you can either cut your prices or offer more value to your customers. Intermedia has done the latter by teaming up with Unison to offer a SAAS-based unified communications solution for $50 per user per month. The offering includes the six requisites of unified communications as agreed…
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PULSEpartum: Last Words From IBM’s Service Management Event
LAS VEGAS: In the city that excels at hosting large groups of people — and relatively painlessly lightening their wallets along the way — this week’s IBM Pulse 2010 services management event is already a dimming memory as 5,000 attendees, including 1,000 partners, have gone their separate ways. But for at least some, like Thales’…
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A Second Look at Microsoft BPOS
I get it. I’ve been struggling to understand where Microsoft BPOS fits in my cloud strategy, and I finally get it. Last time I wrote, I concentrated on the perils of the transition to the cloud. With multiple players and changes in our managed services strategies, I’ve given a lot of thought to how cloud…
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Carpathia Chooses Citrix over VMware for Cloud Virtualization
VMware may have a stronghold on the server virtualization market, but that doesn’t mean competitors like Citrix aren’t winning big deals. Case in point is Carpathia Hosting, a managed hosting services provider and provider of IT infrastructure and management for enterprises and federal agencies. This week Carpathia announced a partnership with VMware virtualization rival Citrix.…