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Rackspace Hosting Improves E-Mail and Apps Reseller Channel Program
Rackspace is relaunching its hosted e-mail and application reseller partner program to add tools, training, more program features and structure. The announcement at the company’s first partner conference in Atlanta this week follows updates for Rackspace’s managed services and Rackspace Cloud programs to increase the company’s presence in the channel. The new channel investments also…
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Dell Switches from ‘Product Direct’ to ‘Service Direct’
Image via Wikipedia While Dell won’t ever say it, the chances that its partner program for MSPs will ever grow to significant numbers don’t look good at the moment, and it’s not clear that Dell really cares whether or not they do. Dell’s channel executives themselves have said the company’s MSP partner numbers have remained…
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Health Care Opportunities Beyond Economic Stimulus
Health care IT continues to be one of the only industries surviving and thriving in today’s current struggling economy. Sure, stimulus money is driving electronic health record purchases of software and supporting services, but there’s other opportunities out there for entrepreneurial VARs looking for a piece of the pie. Atlanta-based Manage Mobility is one technology…
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CompTIA Targets Security, Open Source, Small Business with Member Communities
The Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) is hoping to better serve the IT industry with the rollout of seven new collaborative communities designed to gather input from a range of industry segments for a deeper dive into the concerns of IT’s most important niches. Announced last week, the communities will be a way for CompTIA’s…
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Kaseya Launches SaaS-Based Partner Program
Kaseya this week launched a new program for partners that resell or recommend its SaaS-based IT services solutions. The Kaseya SaaS Partner Program is targeted at select partners, including distributors and channel industry associations, that will promote Kaseya’s SaaS-based IT management offerings – initially the Kaseya IT Tool Kit — to the core constituency of…
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Carpathia Chooses Citrix over VMware for Cloud Virtualization
VMware may have a stronghold on the server virtualization market, but that doesn’t mean competitors like Citrix aren’t winning big deals. Case in point is Carpathia Hosting, a managed hosting services provider and provider of IT infrastructure and management for enterprises and federal agencies. This week Carpathia announced a partnership with VMware virtualization rival Citrix.…