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Partner Value Potential: Cutting Cloud Complexity
Cloud services Partner Value Potential: Cutting Cloud Complexity Enterprise buyers are looking for help with cloud deployments, but channel partners must deliver value—reducing complexities, for example. Worthwhile Partnerships 85% of IT execs said they’d pay a small premium to hire a channel partner, if it would make it less complex to buy public cloud services.…
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Revenge of the Hyperconverged On-Premise Server
Much of the attraction of public cloud services can be attributed to how comparatively simple it is to spin up and then manage virtual machines. In contrast, much of the management of on-premise systems is downright manual. For that reason, interest in the rise of software-defined data centers is high, even though actual adoption of…
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Confidence in the Cloud Keeps Growing
Cloud confidence Confidence in the Cloud Keeps Growing A new survey reveals some of the trends changing the role of IT as more businesses move to the cloud and what organizations are doing to reduce security risks. Rising Confidence in the Cloud 64.9% of IT leaders think of the cloud as secure or more secure…
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SimpliVity Extends Hyperconvergence to the Cloud
SimpliVity has extended the concept of hyperconvergence into the cloud by becoming a member of the Microsoft Cloud Alliance. With plans to go public by year’s end, SimpliVity has been riding high on a software approach to hyperconvergence that enables IT organizations to embrace hyperconvergence across the data center, without having to acquire new classes…
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IT Taps Outside Experts to Handle Cloud Complexity
Cloud services IT Taps Outside Experts to Handle Cloud Complexity Rather than eliminating the need for solution providers, the rise of the cloud is actually creating more demand for their services than ever. Top Cloud Business Benefits Surprisingly, the top business benefit cited by respondents was increased security (45%), followed by greater agility and cost…
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How Open APIs Could Change Communications Services
As a class of technologies, communications software offered a lot of promise, but the complexities associated with deploying these products on-premise tended to limit adoption. With the rise of the cloud, however, it’s now possible to routinely invoke communications software as a service. Less clear now is whether those services will be primarily invoked via…
