Tag: automation
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Autotask Changes PSA Game with VARStreet Acquisition
In what’s being billed as a game-changer for the professional services automation software segment of the channel, Autotask today announced its acquisition of VARStreet, a provider of supply chain services and eCommerce solutions for solution providers. With the addition of VARStreet to its portfolio, Autotask plans to incorporate product sales support into its PSA platform,… Read more
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EMC Enhances Virtualization On Celerra NAS
EMC is releasing software enhancements that increase virtual storage efficiency, automation and management simplicity for its most popular storage line. The EMC Celerra Plug-Ins for VMware Environments benefits include: reducing virtual machine storage capacity requirements by up to 50-percent through thin provisioning, deduplication and improved management; accelerating the cloning of virtual machine data two-to-three times… Read more
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Kaseya, Lenovo Team for PC Managed Services
Lenovo is teaming up with automation specialist Kaseya to educate and enable its community of managed service providers in remote desktop management. Through the alliance announced today, Kaseya and Lenovo will embark on an education effort to expose more MSPs and VARs to emerging opportunities in desktop managed services, with particular emphasis on leveraging Intel… Read more
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BMC Buys Phurnace, Creates Game Changer
Categories: News and TrendsHouston-based BMC Software is expanding its automation capabilities with the acquisition of privately held Phurnace Software, whose technology "significantly reduces the cost, complexity and risk" to deploy and configure Java-based applications on physical, virtual and cloud environments. BMC cites the application layer is the next frontier in data center automation and called its acquisition of… Read more
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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),… Read more
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ConnectWise Upgrades Partner Community Platform
Hot on the heels of a major hardware failure that disrupted service for almost 200 of its 2,400 customers, professional service automation (PSA) vendor ConnectWise is launching its second-generation partner collaboration platform. ConnectWise Network 2.0 offers significant new features and enhancements to its partner community of IT service providers, said Jeannine Edwards, Director of the… Read more