Tag: cloud
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CA Technologies Acquires Virtualization Specialist 4Base
As part of its continued investment in virtualization and cloud management, CA Technologies announced the acquisition of privately held 4Base Technology, a virtualization and cloud infrastructure consulting firm. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. 4Base will become the CA Virtualization and Cloud Strategy group, a competency practice within the CA Services division, according to… Read more
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The Trouble with Managed Services: Making the Move to a New Business Model
Cloud, cloud, cloud. That’s all vendors talk about these days. It’s just about all Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talked about during his keynote address at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference last month (or as he would say it: "Cloud, cloud, cloud, blah blah blah"), and it’s clear that managed services, cloud and software as a… Read more
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VMware Zimbra Offers Business a Microsoft Exchange Alternative
Zimbra is taking its e-mail, messaging and collaboration suite embedded appliance to VMware’s channel organization – effectively growing from just 1,000 channel partners to 25,000 overnight. The move follows VMware’s acquisition of the corporate cloud e-mail and collaboration vendor from Yahoo earlier this year, and poses an even more serious threat to entrenched players such… Read more
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Asigra, 6fusion Partner for MSP Instant Cloud Backup
Looking to make it easier for MSPs to offer cloud backup services, backup software and recovery vendor Asigra has partnered with infrastructure-as-a-service provider 6fusion. The partnership gives VARs and MSPs a quick entry to offering cloud backup services without upfront capital cost. Asigra is in use by many MSPs playing in the cloud backup space.… Read more
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Microsoft Strategy Surprises 10 Baffling Moves by the Tech Giant
Categories: News and TrendsMicrosoft Strategy Surprises 10 Baffling Moves by the Tech Giant 1. Where Is Windows Phone 7?Microsoft’s mobile division is currently the joke of the enterprise. Windows Mobile software is losing market share by the day. And Windows Phone 7, the operating system that was supposed to carry the company into the next generation of smartphones,… Read more