Tag: services
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Best Buy Acquires MindShift Technologies for $167 Million
Big box retailer Best Buy said that it has reached an agreement to acquire MindShift Technologies, a managed service provider for small and midsize businesses, for $167 million. The company provides cloud services, data center services and professional services to more than 5,400 clients and 25,000 managed desktops in markets throughout the United States. Through… Read more
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SolarWinds Rolls Out Platform for Managed Services
It’s official. IT management software developer SolarWinds is formally setting its sights on managed service providers (MSP) following an announcement recently that it’s releasing software targeted specifically at the services crowd. A long-time favorite among MSPs, SolarWinds produces a downloadable suite of products for application and server, network, storage resource, virtualization and log management. Leveraged… Read more
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Gartner Symposium: IT Solution Providers Take on the Cloud
The omens all pointed upward at this year’s Gartner Symposium ITxpo 2011: Attendance was up by about 1,000, the vendor headcount increased by almost 100, and everywhere solution providers and consulting firms and vendors espoused the opportunities new technologies such as virtualization and cloud computing were transforming into signed contracts. In fact, 85 percent of… Read more
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AT&T Launches Cloud-Based Mobile Marketing Platform for SMBs
Network operator AT&T announced the launch of its Messaging Toolkit, designed to allow small to medium-size businesses to distribute special offers, product updates and promotions in front of their customers in real time with a do-it-yourself portfolio of mobile marketing solutions that can be accessed from a cloud-based Web portal. The Messaging Toolkit is a… Read more
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IBM Names Virginia Rometty as New CEO
Virginia Rometty, IBM’s senior vice president and global sales leader, is slated to become the company’s next CEO and president, succeeding longtime leader Samuel Palmisano, who is retiring at the end of the year. As the new CEO, Rometty not only takes over one of the world’s largest and most important tech companies, but she… Read more
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Managed IT Services Users Benefit From Cost Savings: ComptTIA
Organizations that rely on managed services providers for some or all of their information technology needs are reaping significant annual costs savings, according to a study published today by CompTIA, a nonprofit association for the IT industry. The Trends in Managed Services study revealed that among current users of managed services, 46 percent of firms… Read more