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VMware Launches vSphere 5
SAN FRANCISCO – A significant number of IT professionals already know this and aren’t going to like hearing it, but VMware CEO Paul Maritz believes that "most people just want IT infrastructure to go away." So VMware is here to help enterprises do this by selling them vSphere 5, a new cloud computing infrastructure suite…
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Citrix’s Cloud.com Acquisition Bolsters Its Cloud Development Portfolio
Citrix has finished its acquisition of Cloud.com, a provider of software-infrastructure platforms for cloud providers. Cloud.com’s products include the CloudStack product line, designed for the deployment and management of cloud services. In theory, these assets will give Citrix a boost in its cloud-deployment aims. More than 30 percent of enterprises are deploying at least one…
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Microsoft Talks Cloud, Office 365, But Not Billing
While keynote addresses on Microsoft’s second day of its Worldwide Partner Conference were all about cloud and mobility, no mention was made about the issue that’s been at the crux of why many partners have been slow to adopt Microsoft BPOS and Microsoft Office 365. Who owns the billing? VARs and MSPs want to bundle…
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Glowpoint Completes Acquistion of Avaya Managed Video Services
Cloud managed video services provider Glowpoint announced that it completed its acquisition of pieces of Avaya’s Managed Service for Video platform. Glowpoint issued about 770,000 shares of common stock to Avaya for its assets, including telepresence and video conferencing endpoints and network infrastructure used to deliver cloud managed video services to enterprise customers, the company…
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Rackspace’s Worst Enemies
Rackspace’s Worst Enemies AmazonAmazon Web Services versus Rackspace has for years now been brewing a competition for the ages. Amazon ratcheted up the pressure in February when it announced customers could host their websites using an Amazon S3 account. No Title LinodeEspecially now that Rackspace has forcefully migrated the old Sliceworks customers over to Rackspace…
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Microsoft Office 365, Hosted Productivity Suites Present Opportunities for Channel
Starting with its June 28th release, Microsoft s hosted productivity and collaboration suite, Office 365, is poised to make a big splash with U.S. small to medium-size businesses, which IT analytics firm AMI-Partners considers businesses with under 1,000 employees. Priced at only $6 per user per month, SMBs get all of the Office Suite applications…
