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IT Customers Push Cloud Standards
The newly formed Open Data Center Alliance is using an array of usage models to weld cloud-using customers into a force that prevents vendor lock. At the same time, the group is promoting secure movement of virtual workloads from one provider to another. The organization is made up of more than 200 members including JPMorgan…
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Dell’s Force 10 Acquisition Fits Company’s Integrated Strategy, Server Chief Says
Dell’s acquisition of networking vendor Force 10 Networks will be a boon for all parts of the company s efforts to build out its data center solution offerings, according to Dell’s top server executive. In an interview with eWEEK, Forrest Norrod, vice president and general manager of Dell’s Server Platforms business, said Force 10 will…
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Your Clients Are Ready for Cloud. Are You?
As hype around cloud computing is starting to settle into reality, now is the time to start putting together your strategy for how your business will sell and implement cloud services for your clients. The following is an excerpt from a Cloud Practice Guide that was commissioned by The ASCII Group and developed by…
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CompTIA Breakaway: Cloud Vendors on Parade
Managed services and cloud computing took center stage at the CompTIA Breakaway conference in Washington DC this week, as standing-room-only cloud seminars attracted hundreds of IT solution providers and vendors took advantage of the opportunity to talk about their cloud wares. Here’s a look at some of the vendors and products at the event. Intronis.com…
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Autotask
Autotask Ever since it first started sniffing around the remote monitoring and management (RMM) market , Spiceworks has been siphoning SMB prospects and customers away from Autotask. Now with its Request for Quote service, Spiceworks is at it again, competing with Autotask’s VARStreet program. IT Toolbox In the process of supporting its IT administrator users,…
