Tag: services

  • Amazon Web Services Launches ElastiCache Service

    Channel Insider Staff

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    Amazon Web Services has announced Amazon ElastiCache, a new Web service that makes it easy to deploy, operate and scale an in-memory cache for Web applications running in the AWS cloud. Amazon officials said the new service improves the performance of web applications by enabling customers to retrieve information from a fast, managed, in-memory caching… Read more

  • Skype Acquires Group Texting Specialist GroupMe

    Nathan Eddy

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    Internet phone service provider Skype announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire GroupMe, a provider of mobile group messaging services that helps users stay in touch and make decisions. GroupMe was founded in 2010 at the Techcrunch Disrupt Hackathon and is headquartered in New York, New York. Terms of the acquisition will… Read more

  • Amazon’s AWS GovCloud Lets U.S. Agencies Move to the Cloud

    Channel Insider Staff

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    Amazon Web Services has announced AWS GovCloud, a new AWS Region designed to enable U.S. government agencies to move more sensitive workloads into the cloud by addressing their specific regulatory and compliance requirements. Previously, government agencies with data subject to compliance regulations such as the ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations), which governs how organizations… Read more

  • Dell Revenue Growth Slows, Yet Profits Jump as Company Transitions

    Channel Insider Staff

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    Dell is a company in transition during a time of significant economic turmoil, and the results are showing in its financial numbers. Dell executives on Aug. 16 announced a second-quarter profit jump of about 63 percent, to $890 million, up from $545 million during the same period in 2010. That profit growth came on revenues… Read more

  • Getting It Right in the Post-Managed Services Era

    Pedro Pereira

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    The IT channel is about to enter the post-managed services era. Much like modernism led to postmodernism in art and philosophy, the managed services model is evolving into a new IT consumption reality. At the heart of the change is the cloud, and more specifically, how managed services providers (MSPs) choose to proceed into a… Read more

  • Managed Services Offer SMBs Challenges, Opportunities: Survey

    Channel Insider Staff

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    Technology VARs are increasingly focused on selling managed services to help small and midsize businesses monitor, manage and maintain their IT networks and equipment. However, according to a study released by CIT Group, a provider of vendor financing solutions, the benefits of offloading IT services — lower costs, increased available resources and reduced IT headcount… Read more