Tag: SaaS
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Channel News Briefs: Week of Sept. 7
Westcon Boosts Cloud Practice With Verecloud Acquisition Westcon Group, a value-added distributor, has acquired the assets of Verecloud, a developer of an advanced telecom carrier-grade channel distribution platform for cloud and services solutions. Westcon plans to incorporate Verecloud into its Cloud Solutions Practice, led by former Verecloud CEO John McCawley. The platform will become the foundation of Westcon’s… Read more
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M&As Pick Up Steam in Cloud, Mobile, Analytics Spaces
Categories: Cloud ComputingMergers and acquisitions Valuation of Tech M&As Rises At $52.4 billion for the second quarter, the aggregate value of all disclosed-value tech deals soared 57% year-over-year, despite falling 21% from a record-setting first quarter. Lots of Activity Across the IT Sector The volume of deals set a second consecutive record for any quarter in the… Read more
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Hybrid Cloud Model to Remain Dominant in Next Few Years
Categories: Cloud ComputingCloud strategy Types of Cloud in Use IT organizations definitely have their heads in the cloud. SaaS apps top the list at 72.4%. Just over half the respondents are using IaaS (55.9%) and cloud storage (53.7%). Surprisingly, 41.2% are making use of a PaaS environment. Types of Clouds in Use in Two Years There’s not… Read more
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New Class of Channel Players Emerges in Cloud Age
Now that there are solution providers that are completely born of the cloud in that most of the IT services they provide are dependent on multiple cloud services, it makes sense that we would start to see distributors born of the cloud, as well. SaaSMax aims to cater to the needs of a new class… Read more
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HP Expands PartnerOne to Handle Channel Diversity
Recognizing that business models throughout the channel vary widely, Hewlett-Packard is opening up its Partner One channel program to include new types of partners. At the HP Global Partner 2014 Conference this week, company officials revealed that they are expanding PartnerOne to include service providers, systems integrators, independent software vendors, OEMs and distributors alongside traditional… Read more
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Cloud Adoption Barriers Start to Fall, Slowly
Categories: Cloud ComputingCloud barrier Compute in the Cloud Use in Next 2 to 5 Years To one degree or another, just about every organization is going to use compute resources in the cloud. Currently use: 61%, plan to use: 31%, no plans: 8% Storage Service in the Cloud Use in Next 2 to 5 Years Demand for… Read more