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Small Businesses Launch With or Without Outside Funding
LONDON (Reuters) – Venture-capital investments have been falling in a depressed economy but this is not necessarily stifling technology start-ups, as it becomes easier to get firms off the ground without outside investment, Microsoft says. "With the advent of relatively cheap computing, relatively cheap bandwidth for communications, the cost of setting up a start-up has…
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Vembu to Partner with Caringo, ParaScale for Cloud Storage
Online backup software provider Vembu has unveiled a number of new partnerships with leading cloud storage providers, allowing solution providers incredible flexibility to offer online backup solutions to customers regardless of which cloud storage delivery platform they use. Vembu’s StorGrid Service Provider Edition of its StorGrid online backup software is tailored specifically for solution providers…
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PacketTrap Intros Traffic Analysis Solution for MSPs
Managed services providers (MSPs) usually thrive in times of economic downturn, as customers look for desktop and server management solutions that can help cut costs, increase efficiency and ease data center management and monitoring burdens. But as these services become more commoditized, there’s less value for customers in these solutions. PacketTrap has introduced a software…
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Zyrion Intros New Business Services Management Solution
Business service management software vendor Zyrion has introduced its Traverse solution to the reseller channel, giving solution providers a new way to offer customers real-time visibility into and analysis of the performance of their IT services. Though network management itself isn’t new, disruptive technologies such as distributed computing, unified communications and virtualization and the growing…
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MSPAlliance Lauds All-Star Members
The MSPAlliance, the largest association of managed service providers with more than 8,000 member companies, bestowed four honors as part of its Managed Services Industry Leadership Awards at annual MSPWorld conference in Orlando, Fla., last week. MSPAlliance presented four awards for leadership, green IT initiatives, community service and innovation from a group of nominated managed…