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Microsoft’s Office 365 Experiences Outages: Reports
Microsoft’s Office 365 seems to be experiencing some outages. "We apologize for the inconvenience that the Office 365 outage has caused today. We re sic are working on resolving the issue," read an Aug. 17 tweet posted at 3:30 EST on Microsoft’s cloud-services Twitter account. Around 20 minutes later, Microsoft’s official Office 365 Twitter account…
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Amazon’s AWS GovCloud Lets U.S. Agencies Move to the Cloud
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…
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Managed Services Offer SMBs Challenges, Opportunities: Survey
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…
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Computer Services Acquires Cloud Specialist HEIT
Compliance and document delivery solutions specialist Computer Services Inc. (CSI) announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire HEIT, a provider of cloud-based managed compliance, security and IT services. The acquisition of HEIT, which operates two secured data centers, located in Fort Collins, Colo., and Austin, Texas, would make CSI one of…
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How to Vet Potential Cloud Provider Partners
By Chris Stark As cloud computing continues to take the IT industry by storm, it’s getting harder and harder to tell the difference between a good cloud partner and a “me, too” provider. Reminiscent of the dot com days, companies are popping up everywhere claiming to be cloud computing experts. In this environment, it is…
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Cloudera Recruits Channel Partners for Hadoop
Cloudera is turning to the channel to build out its business around Apache Hadoop. A new partner program will also introduce what Cloudera is calling the industry’s first Hadoop certification program. According to Ed Albanese, head of business development at Cloudera, the installed base for the open source Apache Hadoop is growing, and that’s driving…