Recent Articles
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Finding a Place in the Clouds
Building clouds capable of delivering scalable, multitenant applications to scores of distributed customers is a daunting task even for large enterprises such as Microsoft and Google. But solution providers of all shapes and sizes are looking to the heavens to find their place in the clouds for the next generation of computing. Cloud computing is…
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Nimsoft Extends Partner Program to Developers, Solution Providers
Unified monitoring vendor Nimsoft has expanded its channel partner program to formally include two new types of partners beyond its standard managed service provider partners. Nimsoft’s announcement today follows the company’s news from last month that it has created monitoring integrations with four major players in the managed services and SAAS space—Google Apps for Business,…
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Solution Providers Call VMware View 4 Disruptive, Game-Changing
Solution providers are viewing the release of VMware View 4 as a game-changing disruptive technology that could revolutionize how IT infrastructure is deployed today. That’s because the technology, announced this week by VMware, delivers a virtualized PC over IP to the client side, simplifying IT management and disaster recovery in addition to significantly reducing costs.…
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Bleak Unemployment Numbers Spell Opportunity for VARs
With unemployment hitting 10.2 percent last week and a few other technology vendors announcing layoffs, the question arises of what exactly does this mean to solution provider community. Sister publication eWEEK says the unemployment picture for technology companies is shady, and that education and health services are the only categories showing any signs of positive…
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Microsoft, i365 Aim to Spoil Symantec`s Grip on Storage Protection Market
Microsoft and i365, the Seagate subsidiary built off its EVault acquisition, announced a partnership today for a new multi-platform, cloud-connected data protection solution they say will disrupt the midmarket in data backup and recovery and give Symantec a run for its money. The two companies are teaming up to extend the capabilities of Data Protection…
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Microsoft Lifts Covers on Exchange 2010
At its TechEd Europe event in Berlin today, Microsoft officially released Exchange Server 2010, touting it as the first server in the Redmond portfolio developed from the ground up for both traditional on-premise and cloud-computing use cases. In his keynote, Microsoft Business Division President Stephen Elop, who oversees Exchange as well as information worker technologies…