Tag: Microsoft
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Microsoft’s Ballmer Says Company Betting on Cloud
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer used a speech at the University of Washington to suggest that the company’s strategy moving forward will focus primarily on the cloud. Ballmer cited a number of services and platforms, including Windows Phone 7 Series and <leo_highlight style=”border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(255, 255, 150); background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; cursor:… Read more
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Microsoft Blog Calls Google Anti-Competitive
SEATTLE (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp made its most vehement and public attack on Google Inc on Friday, calling its Internet rival’s actions potentially anti-competitive, and urging victims to file complaints to regulators. The broadside comes days after a Microsoft-owned business, along with two other small online companies, complained to European Union regulators about Google’s operations… Read more
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Storage Vendor Offers In-Line Dedupe, Microsoft Hyper-V Support, Huge Margins
Nexenta Systems’ CEO Evan Powell has 93 reasons why the channel should be excited about NexentaStor 3.0, a major upgrade to the company’s enterprise-class, hardware- independent storage solution based on the file system ZFS, and Virtual Machine Datacenter (VMDC) 3.0. Due out at the end of the month, it is called the first commercial storage… Read more
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Upstart Google Apps Looks to Unseat Microsoft Exchange in Enterprise
Think Google Apps are just for consumers and the smallest of businesses? Think Google’s channel program couldn’t possibly offer a business model that works for an IT solution provider? Tell that to Cloud Sherpas. The Atlanta-based IT solution provider was part of Google Apps’ formal channel partner program when Google launched it a year ago… Read more
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Hosted Microsoft Exchange Provider Intermedia Adds Unified Communications
In the dog-eat-dog arena of Microsoft Exchange hosting, you can either cut your prices or offer more value to your customers. Intermedia has done the latter by teaming up with Unison to offer a SAAS-based unified communications solution for $50 per user per month. The offering includes the six requisites of unified communications as agreed… Read more
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A Second Look at Microsoft BPOS
I get it. I’ve been struggling to understand where Microsoft BPOS fits in my cloud strategy, and I finally get it. Last time I wrote, I concentrated on the perils of the transition to the cloud. With multiple players and changes in our managed services strategies, I’ve given a lot of thought to how cloud… Read more