Tag: SaaS
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AWS Adds Partner Benefits, Extends Channel Reach
Amazon Web Services today expanded the scope of its partner network, while simultaneously announcing a raft of new offerings intended to increase the number of application workloads running on what is already the world’s largest public cloud computing platform. In addition to increasing partner benefits, AWS at the re:Invent 2014 conference launched new managed service… Read more
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Dell Looks to Extend Cloud Marketplace to the Channel
Dell this week launched the public beta of a cloud marketplace that it expects, sometime in the next year, to involve its channel partners that specialize in building clouds. “We’d like our Cloud Builders partners to participate,” said Cheryl Cook, vice president of Dell’s Enterprise Solutions Group. “We’re working through those details now.” The Dell… Read more
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IT Services Sector Continues to Add Jobs
Categories: CareersIT hiring Slight Uptick in Tech Jobs The U.S. tech industry grew by 1.9%, or nearly 119,000 jobs, in the first six months of 2014, employing 6.3 million people as of June 2014. This is slightly higher than the 1.8% growth during the same period in 2013. Fastest Growth R&D, testing and engineering services experienced… Read more
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What Salesforce’s Growing Reach Could Mean to Channel
Salesforce.com has always had a somewhat limited relationship with the channel. It sells the vast majority of its software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications direct, but it has also come to realize it needs the channel to reach a market that continues to grow alongside its ambitions. After initially focusing primarily on CRM software, Salesforce.com has extended its… Read more
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Channel News Briefs: Week of Oct. 5
Arrow Distributes Lenovo Enterprise Products Following the transition of IBM’s System X server business to Lenovo, Arrow Electronics is now an authorized North American Lenovo distributor for System X and related products. The global IT technology distributor will continue to distribute System X, BladeCenter and Flex System blade servers and switches, System X-based Flex integrated systems,… Read more
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IT Outsourcing Landscape Continues to Shift
Categories: CareersOutsourcing Application Hosting: Most Outsourced Function Large organizations are spending a median 7.4% of their IT budget on outsourcing, compared with 6.1% for small organizations and 4.6% for midsize organizations. Application hosting was the fastest-growing type of outsourcing, thanks to the growing adoption of software as a service (SaaS). IT Sector Outsourcing Best in Help,… Read more