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Winter Edition of Hot Channel Stories from All Over
This week’s company to watch MSP Mentor did a great job of laying out why MSPs and VARs should watch Parallels. The cloud and virtualization company, known for its Mac desktop virtualization software, named a new CEO and held its Parallels Summit in Orlando, Fla. this week. As MSP Mentor reports, plenty of channel and…
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Cisco’s Hosted E-Mail Service Says Goodbye
Cisco Systems pulled the plug on Cisco Mail, the hosted e-mail service it launched a mere 13 months ago. While Cisco Mail was “well received,” Cisco found that customers were not interested in hosted e-mail as much as they cared about “social software and video,” Cisco said in a Feb. 22 blog post announcing the…
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Parallels Debuts Cloud Infrastructure Services, Hosted PBX
Hosting and cloud services specialist Parallels announced the introduction of cloud infrastructure and hosted PBX platforms, as well as support for Microsoft Office 365 Syndication and Hyper-V Cloud. It is also increasing its investment in facilitating APS-enabled solutions to help independent software vendors (ISVs) ability to also profit from the cloud. Parallels Automation for Cloud…
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Parallels’ New CEO Will Focus on SMB Cloud Services
In the search for a new CEO, virtualization software maker Parallels stayed close to home and named one of its own senior executives to the post. Birger Steen, the current president of Parallels, has been promoted to CEO, effective Feb. 23, the company said. Company founder and outgoing CEO Sergeui Beloussov announced Steen’s appointment during…
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Microsoft and Athenahealth Partner on Patient Information Sharing Solution
Microsoft is teaming up with athenahealth, a web-based practice management, electronic health record and patient communication services vendor, on an electronic health solution intended to improve communication between hospitals, doctors and patients. The cloud-based solution combines athenahealth’s hosted services – athenaClinicals and athenaCollector – with Microsoft’s Amalga enterprise health intelligence platform software. The combined solution…
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Don’t Sit Out The Cloud
This time you can’t afford to hesitate. When managed services were taking off six years ago, a great many solution providers sat on the sidelines trying to get a sense of where the trend would lead. But with cloud-based services, sitting around may well put the future of your business in jeopardy. You see, while…