Tag: cloud
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Did Amazon Outage Kill the Cloud?
A partial outage of Amazon’s cloud-based hosting services in April prompted some high-tech pundits to make dire predictions. They called the outage a major setback with consequences for years to come. It’s as if Amazon had all but extinguished the cloud. Was the failure damaging? Yes, but to the point of significantly slowing what is… Read more
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Google Apps Reseller, Cloud Sherpas, Improves Flagship Offering, SherpaTools
Google Apps’ largest reseller, Cloud Sherpas, has a few announcements of its own on the eve of Google’s I/O 2001 conference this week – enhancements to its SherpaTools Collaboration Pack that enables more granular granting of various administrative rights to help those internal IT administrators delegate more without giving away too much control. Cloud Sherpas… Read more
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Symantec.cloud Enhances Portfolio of SAAS Services
Security, storage and systems management specialist Symantec announced that customers will now benefit from enhancements to the Symantec.cloud portfolio of SAAS services. The company announced a number of service enhancements, which are designed to bring more of Symantec’s technologies to the cloud and offer increased flexibility of choice to SMBs (small and midsize businesses). Service… Read more
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CA Looking to the Channel for Cloud, Midmarket Growth
CA Technologies is betting its future on the cloud, virtualization management and software as a service, the company told partners at its Global Partner Summit in New York City this week, but it will need its partners to help it succeed. The company is also looking to expand its presence in the midmarket and “emerging… Read more
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Iomega Launches Performance Network Storage Line
Iomega is launching new line of performance network storage products in mid-May with the release of three flagship products — two desktop storage systems and a 1U rackmount product – designed with the flexibility requested by channel partners. Iomega is positioning its StorCenter PX Series of network storage products as its top-of-the-line network storage solutions.… Read more
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Federal Cloud Could Leave VARs Behind
VARs and Systems Integrators who sell to the Federal government may face a shrinking universe of sales opportunities, but don’t blame the budget directly. It’s the cloud’s fault. The cloud and a reduced IT footprint have been goals of the Executive Branch for more than a year now, but deficit-reduction measures will accelerate cloud adoption… Read more