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  • Rackspace Expands SAAS Offerings to Include Online Storage

    As software as a service has risen to gain the attention of more business customers and solution providers, plenty of service providers have cropped up with offerings that solution providers could private-label to their customers. Hosting provider Rackspace has been no exception, rolling out a hosted e-mail service and then a hosted Microsoft Exchange service.…

  • Bull’s Eye Awards: Time Is Running Out

    Channel Insider has received dozens of nominations for the Bull’s Eye Awards, which will recognize excellence among vendors, solution providers, MSPs, distributors and channel services companies. Nominations are still open, but time is running out. Nominations must be received by Friday, Nov. 20, for consideration. The Bull’s Eye Awards will recognize individuals and companies in…

  • Quantum Offers Differentiated Tape Solution

    The storage market is changing with new demands and technologies, but at $3.5 billion (2008), tape is still a large segment and Quantum is releasing an entry-level tape automation library that is channel-friendly. HP owns the biggest slice of the tape drive market, with 55 percent of all factory-out tape drive shipments in 2008 (IDC),…

  • Tufin Expands from Security into Network Management

    Firewall management firm Tufin Technologies recently announced that it plans on expanding into the field of general network management through a clutch of 12 new plug-ins to expand its open extensible architecture. The Israel-based security company is pinning hopes for future success on this architecture, dubbed the Tufin Open Platform (TOP). Introduced last April, TOP…

  • Microsoft Unveils Windows Azure Cloud Platform

    Microsoft will turn on its Windows Azure cloud platform as of January 1, 2010, said Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie in a keynote speech at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) 2009 here. In his speech on November 17, Ozzie said Microsoft would continue to offer Windows Azure as a Community Technology Preview (CTP)…

  • Building Brand through Social Networks

    Building Brand through Social Networks Small Social Network BudgetsAccording to the study, 4 out of 5 (84%) of chief marketing officers (CMOs) allocate less than 10% of their budgets to experimenting through social media and non-traditional communications channels, with more than 55% allocating 5% or less. No Title Social Network PopularityThe number of adult Internet…

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