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Cloud Computing Heading for the Stratosphere
Worldwide cloud computing services revenue is continuing to grow at a rapid rate, with it expected to top $56.3 billion (US) in 2009, according to a report from Gartner. The lion’s share of the market will be made up of cloud-based advertising for the next few years. Market revenue grew by 21.3 per cent from…
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Trend Micro Asserts Channel Commitment in SAAS
As businesses continue their rapid adoption and migration to cloud-based services, Trend Micro is pledging to keep working with its solution providers in the delivery and management of software-as-a-service accounts. Demonstrating its commitment to working with channel partners on services, Trend Micro announced its Hosted Security for the Channel program, a new initiative to educate…
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Asigra Advises Startups on Storage, Backup Pitfalls
Backup and storage vendor Asigra has been a player in the midmarket and enterprise online backup market for more than 15 years, and it has some advice for neophytes and startup vendors—be flexible, embrace vendor neutrality, avoid proprietary solutions and, above all, don’t underestimate the power of the channel. “We’ve been doing this for quite…
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Putting Skin in Managed Services
Now that the economy has tanked and everybody can see the value of selling IT as an operational expense, it seems like every vendor out there is trying to jump into the managed services pool. For the most part that can be seen as a positive development. But the thing that solution providers should remember…
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ParaScale Intros Low-Cost, Easy Cloud Storage
ParaScale has released its ParaScale Cloud Storage software for general availability, giving solution providers a cost-effective, simple-to-install cloud storage solution that leverages commodity servers to deliver to customers massive capacity. The software-only solution can be downloaded from the Web and applied to any standard Linux platform, says ParaScale CEO Sajai Krishnan. PCS clusters hundreds of…
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Open Cloud Manifesto Ensures Migration, Not Identity Management
The controversial “Open Cloud Manifesto” is intended to ensure users of Web-based applications such as those offered by Salesforce.com, IBM and Microsoft have the ability to port their data to new providers should they choose to switch services. However, the limitation of cloud services is the lack of secure inter-cloud communications and data exchange between…