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Small Business Outsourcing to the Cloud Gains Momentum
Small Business Outsourcing to the Cloud Gains Momentum During the first half of 2010, 14 percent of SMBs said they used cloud computing services. No Title Another 10 percent reported they developed near-term plans to deploy cloud-based services. No Title 38 percent of SMBs with fewer than 20 employees use or plan to use cloud…
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Intacct, Clarizen Partnership Deal Spurs Project Accounting for Cloud
Intacct has signed a partnership deal with Clarizen (www.clarizen.com) so that between the two companies, they can provide all the cloud applications professional services and project-based businesses need to do work management and financial management. The two cloud computing applications providers will integrate their applications to work together more closely. According to Laurie Wood, senior…
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Rise Launches Cloud Services for Channel Partners
Rise, a division of U.K.-based Web hosting company Fasthosts Internet, announced it has expanded its channel-focused cloud computing offerings for small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) in North America. The company also announced its first U.S.-based channel partner, Titanium Ant, an IT consultancy and technology management company based in Seattle. Rise has more than 1 million…
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Cloud Services Momentum on Track Among SMBs, Report Finds
Early results from IT research firm AMI-Partners’ World Wide Cloud Services study indicated small to medium-size businesses are rapidly adopting a variety of cloud services consistent with their stated intentions over the past 12-18 months. The study concluded with the economic situation still in a state of flux particularly across North America and Europe, cloud…
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Open Source Cloud Computing Channel Friendly Vendors Who Support It
Open Source Cloud Computing Channel Friendly Vendors Who Support It Rackspace HostingRackspace Hosting (www.rackspace.com) announced the OpenStack (www.openstack.org) project on July 19th. The open source cloud platform was designed to foster the emergence of technology standards and cloud interoperability. Nearly 30 vendors and organizations, including NASA (www.nasa.gov) have signed on since launch day. No Title…
