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Eight Key Facts About Private vs. Public Clouds
Private and public clouds Mission-Critical Apps in the Private Cloud 75% of organizations surveyed run some mission-critical applications in their private cloud, up from 71% in 2013. Mission-Critical Apps in the Public Cloud Almost half (47%) of the companies surveyed run some mission-critical apps in the public cloud, an increase from 33% in 2013. Company…
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Channel News Briefs: Week of July 20
Tech Data Adds McAfee SaaS Offerings to Solutions Store McAfee will provide its software-as-a-service (SaaS) security offerings to Tech Data’s channel of solution providers through the company’s TDCloud business unit. The cloud-based security offerings, including McAfee’s SaaS Email Protection, SaaS Email Archiving and SaaS Web Protection, will be available through Tech Data’s Solutions Store. In addition,…
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IBM-Apple Alliance Provides Big Mobile Boost to Channel
From a channel perspective, mobile computing has always been a challenge because the acquiring of the devices and services is most often direct. But in the wake of the far-reaching mobile alliance this week between IBM and Apple, the mobile playing field for the channel just became a little more level. Under the terms of…
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Channel News Briefs: Week of July 13
Parallels Supports Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider Program Parallels, the platform provider for cloud service delivery, is supporting the new Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider Program with Parallels SmartStart for Office 365. The new Microsoft provider program expands the opportunity for Microsoft’s channel to resell Microsoft Office 365. The SmartStart program delivers a full range of Microsoft…
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Channel News Briefs: Week of July 6
CommVault Enhances Partner Program CommVault has upgraded its PartnerAdvantage partner program Service Provider (SP) Edition with new tools and other resources to support the specialized requirements of its service provider partners. The partner program is available to cloud, managed services and hosting providers who meet the program requirements, giving them access to software powered by CommVault…
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Hybrid Cloud Model to Remain Dominant in Next Few Years
Cloud strategy Types of Cloud in Use IT organizations definitely have their heads in the cloud. SaaS apps top the list at 72.4%. Just over half the respondents are using IaaS (55.9%) and cloud storage (53.7%). Surprisingly, 41.2% are making use of a PaaS environment. Types of Clouds in Use in Two Years There’s not…
