Recent Articles
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Cisco Sets Limits to Cloud Strategy
Cisco Systems’ Padmasree Warrior says the networking giant has no plans to fully engage in cloud computing market, but rather act as a player that supports and enables the remote delivery of applications and services. In a virtual roundtable with journalists and analysts around the world, Cisco’s chief technology officer described Cisco’s boundary in the…
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Battling Legacy Trusted Security Advisers
Everyone knows money is tight. No matter how many positive signs surface that the economy is rebounding, businesses are loathed to open their wallets for anything but projects that have an absolute positive ROI. That’s why security VARs with cost-saving solutions are doing so well; well, at least in theory. Something that some security service…
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Technology Spending Growth to Return in Q4
Waiting for an end to the recession? Wondering when your customers’ delayed projects will finally get the green light again? Forrester Research now says IT spending growth will return in the fourth quarter of this year and continue in 2010. That forecast aligns with a recent report from Gartner, which is now forecasting a return…
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Backup and Disaster Recovery as a Service
Managed Service Providers in the business of protecting their customers’ critical systems and data know they need to find reliable backup and disaster recovery software as part of their overall disaster recovery plan. But often the costs of licensing backup and disaster recovery software can be prohibitive. It’s not only important to find software that…
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Managed Services Reality Check
As much discussion as there is surrounding managed services I find it useful to periodically sit back and have a bit of a reality check. Now, perhaps more than ever before, there are a great diversity of opinions about managed services. Personally, I think a lot of these ideas are not entirely based in reality…
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Hosted UC Market Poised for Fast Growth
Recognizing the value of offering hosted unified communications, a handful of industry giants—Microsoft, IBM and Cisco—have taken the plunge to offer such services, and many solution providers have also pursued that path. Even as managed service providers rate Microsoft’s cloud initiatives as the biggest threat to their businesses, plenty of solution providers are already cashing…