Recent Articles
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Dumping Product Sales for Managed Services
Are you calling yourself a managed services provider but still making most of your money from other revenue streams? Jim Hare, vice president of sales at eGestalt, says that only about 10 percent of the channel who say they do managed services actually have a full fledged managed services business. The others are dipping toes…
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SugarSync Launches Android AutoSync Backup
Online file backup provider SugarSync on April 25 launched a rebuilt application for Android devices that features SugarSync’s primary market differentiator, AutoSync. AutoSync synchronizes files and folders between any combination of Macs, Windows PCs, iOS and Android smartphones, and iPads—with all files backed up to the SugarSync cloud. All data is then instantly available from…
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Amazon EC2 Outage Takes Down Reddit, Hootsuite
Amazon’s EC2 cloud computing service is currently experiencing an outage that is affecting several major websites including Reddit and Hootsuite. A message on the Reddit site said: "Amazon is currently experiencing a degradation. They are working on it. We are still waiting on them to get to our volumes. Sorry." The Amazon Web Services Service…
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Intel Earnings Strong as Mobililty, Cloud Computing Grow
Despite a challenging first quarter and weakening consumer demand, strong business spending and emerging markets are driving demand for Intel’s traditional businesses. Company executives are expecting the momentum to continue for the rest of 2011 as the company strengthens its presence in the mobile device segment. During an April 19 conference call with analysts and…
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Small Business Turning to the Cloud for Storage, Web Hosting
Small businesses are using cloud predominantly for storage (67 percent) and Website hosting (56 percent), according to a recent survey by Iconnyx, an managed IT and Web hosting company. Research of more than 300 small business leaders conducted over two events in the past month shows these to be the typical SMB applications, followed by…
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Cisco Data Center Focuses on Cloud, Green IT
Cisco Systems is opening a new data center that is going to take on multiple roles for the networking giant, from acting as a showcase for its wide-ranging data center technologies to driving down costs through its multiple environmentally-friendly features. The facility, which officially opened April 15 in Allen, Texas, will serve as a key…