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Infrastructure-as-a-Service Adoption Growing, Report Finds
Software as a service’s younger sibling just got an ego boost, according to a report from IT research firm Yankee Group. A company survey found 24 percent of large enterprises with cloud experience are already using IAAS (infrastructure as a service), and an additional 37 percent expect to adopt IAAS during the next 24 months.…
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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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CA Technologies Announces IT Client Manager 12.5
IT management software and solutions company CA Technologies announced the latest version of IT Client Manager (ITCM), a solution that extends and automates enterprise capabilities to inventory, manage and deploy physical and virtualized systems and applications. ITCM r12.5 provides application virtualization support, including registering, deploying, detecting, reporting on and updating Microsoft App-V and VMware ThinApp…
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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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CA Technologies Acquires Virtualization Specialist 4Base
As part of its continued investment in virtualization and cloud management, CA Technologies announced the acquisition of privately held 4Base Technology, a virtualization and cloud infrastructure consulting firm. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. 4Base will become the CA Virtualization and Cloud Strategy group, a competency practice within the CA Services division, according to…
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Eight Habits of Highly Successful Managed Services Providers
Eight Habits of Highly Successful Managed Services Providers by Jessica Davis No Title With clouds looming overhead as a new business model and managed services complicating what used to be a simple break/fix business proposition, many IT solution providers may find themselves flumoxed over whether to transition to becoming managed service providers or remaining as…
