Recent Articles
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Vendor Loyalty in the Cloud Up for Grabs
The cloud is about to seriously test the loyalty of IT vendors’ channel partners. In a cloud-centric world, brand has far less cachet than the sum of the aggregate parts that make up a solution provider’s cloud offerings. So, vendors beware. If your technology falls short, your communication is poor or your channel program is…
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SMBs Want Remote Access, On-Premises Backup: Survey
A new survey on storage priorities for small and midsize businesses has found that most SMBs (68 percent of those participating in the survey) have one or fewer persons dedicated to IT, while 99 percent say they will not move 100 percent of their storage to the cloud. In the survey of data storage specialist…
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Dell, SAP Partner on Cloud, In-Memory Computing
A recently announced deal between longtime partners Dell and SAP involving a new in-memory application and storage appliance could turn out to be a significant landmark in the data center business. As a result of this partnership, announced last week at SAP’s Sapphire conference in Orlando, Fla., SAP’s customers will be able to deploy their…
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Exchange Host Intermedia Gets New Owner, CEO
Microsoft Exchange hosting giant Intermedia is going the way of private equity. Oak Hill Capital Partners announced it will acquire Intermedia and appoint former Savvis CEO Phil Koen as chairman and CEO of the New York-based hosting firm which just rolled out a cloud-based backup service this spring. “We are proud to have built this…
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Small Businesses Don’t Know About the Cloud: Survey
Nearly three-quarters (71 percent) of small businesses surveyed by Newtek Business Services said they have never heard of cloud computing, underlining a fundamental lack of knowledge about the technology. Based on a poll of approximately 1,800 respondents, the survey found only 26 percent of those who had heard of cloud computing could describe what it…
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Businesses Cutting Costs with Cloud Computing: Survey
CDW, a provider of technology products and services to business, government, education and health care, announced the results of its first Cloud Computing Tracking Poll, an assessment of current and future cloud computing use in business, government, health care and education based on a survey of 1,200 IT professionals familiar with their organization’s use of,…