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Arrow, dinCloud Ink Distribution Deal
Cloud services provider dinCloud has signed a North American distribution agreement with Arrow Electronics. Under the agreement, Arrow will offer dinCloud’s hosted virtual desktops, hosted virtual servers and cloud storage services to its North American channel partners via the ArrowSphere online marketplace. As part of the ArrowSphere cloud offering, Arrow’s partners have the capability to…
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What Software-Defined Security Could Mean for the Channel
The IT industry is entering the era of software-defined infrastructure, starting with software-defined networks (SDNs). SDNs were quickly followed by the emergence of software-defined storage (SDS)—which, together with SDNs, are the foundation for the software-defined data center. Given those advances, it’s only a matter of time before the industry sees the emergence of software-defined security…
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Quantum Helps Partners Offer a Backup Service in the Cloud
Quantum is aiming to make it significantly easier for channel partners to offer a backup service in the cloud powered by the company’s data protection software. Quantum’s backup-as-a-service managed service provider (MSP) program includes an online marketing kit designed to help Quantum channel partners promote their service. And partners have the option of reselling the…
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Channel Helps Customers Make Their Move to the Cloud
Using a mix of on-premise and cloud deployments, channel companies are making the transition to the cloud to help their end customers capitalize on its benefits such as reducing both costs and IT complexity. As many enterprises opt for this mixed approach, partly because of concerns about cloud security and integration, cloud providers are beginning…
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Network Branding Comes of Age in the Cloud
Back when most carriers were selling dumb pipes, the underlying network infrastructure they were using didn’t really matter to most IT organizations. However, with the rise of cloud applications, latency across wide-area networks has become a primary concern, which makes the underlying network any given carrier is using a lot more relevant to customers. As…
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The Cloud Moves Ahead, but Isn’t Fully Mature
The Cloud Moves Ahead, but Isn’t Fully Mature Shifting Cloud Trends More than six in 10 cloud users have made secondary shifts in their infrastructure or applications after their transition to the cloud. Roughly 10% to 15% have made only one move, which may include shifting from a public to a private cloud, switching providers…
