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AWS Partners Tout New Cloud Offerings at re:Invent
At the annual AWS re:Invent conference, partners and supporters of Amazon Web Services (AWS) leveraged the show to introduce new products, capabilities and services. The AWS Marketplace is a channel for independent software vendors (ISVs), system integrators (SIs) and VARs to sell their software as integrated solutions on AWS, helping them grow their recurring revenue…
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Channel’s Cloud Reach: From Migration to Troubleshooting
Cloud computing Cloud Consulting Services Are Up 74% of IT channel firms are providing cloud consulting, compared with 67% last year. Cloud Migration Services Grow 72% said they’re overseeing services to migrate customers from one cloud to another, up from 53% in 2013. Managing Multi-Cloud Environments 67% are managing multi-cloud environments for customers, up from…
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AWS Adds Partner Benefits, Extends Channel Reach
Amazon Web Services today expanded the scope of its partner network, while simultaneously announcing a raft of new offerings intended to increase the number of application workloads running on what is already the world’s largest public cloud computing platform. In addition to increasing partner benefits, AWS at the re:Invent 2014 conference launched new managed service…
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Dell Looks to Extend Cloud Marketplace to the Channel
Dell this week launched the public beta of a cloud marketplace that it expects, sometime in the next year, to involve its channel partners that specialize in building clouds. “We’d like our Cloud Builders partners to participate,” said Cheryl Cook, vice president of Dell’s Enterprise Solutions Group. “We’re working through those details now.” The Dell…
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Channel News Briefs: Week of Oct. 26
Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider Program Adds New Partners Microsoft has selected Tech Data, a global IT technology distributor, and AppRiver, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider of email messaging and Web security solutions and an original Office 365 syndicator, to participate in its Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider Program. The program is aimed at expanding “cloud sales opportunities…
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What Salesforce’s Growing Reach Could Mean to Channel
Salesforce.com has always had a somewhat limited relationship with the channel. It sells the vast majority of its software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications direct, but it has also come to realize it needs the channel to reach a market that continues to grow alongside its ambitions. After initially focusing primarily on CRM software, Salesforce.com has extended its…
