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Tech Data Adds Intermedia Hosted PBX and Cloud Server to Offerings

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:00:00 +0000

Tech Data is beefing up its TDCloud portfolio with the addition of Intermedia's Hosted PBX and Cloud Server offerings. Aimed at small and medium businesses (SMBs), the cloud solutions are now available to Tech Data's solution providers.

Dell to Drive Public Cloud IaaS Through Partners

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:00:00 +0000

For the next step in its cloud strategy, Dell is looking to work with partners. The company has launched the Dell Cloud Partner Program to deliver its public cloud IaaS offering through the channel.

Spanning Cloud Turns to Channel with Reseller Program

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:00:00 +0000

Spanning Cloud Apps is looking to the channel to continue its expansion. The company, which is responsible for Spanning Backup for Google Apps, has launched a channel reseller program to work with VARs and systems integrators to build its marketing and sales.

iWeb Unveils Fully Managed Cloud Hosting Service Based on OpenStack

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:00:00 +0000

IaaS provider iWeb has released a fully-managed cloud hosting service based on OpenStack. According to the company, cloud service provides guaranteed disk speed as a key element of overall system performance.

Veeam Touts 65,000 Customers, Announces Backup & Replication v7

Mon, 20 May 2013 12:21:00 +0000

Veeam Software, a company that develops backup and management software for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V environments, has released the latest version of its Veeam Backup & Replication solution to provide customers with two new main product features: built-in WAN acceleration and backup from storage snapshots, along with other additions.

Walmart Acquires Cloud Startups OneOps and Tasty Labs

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:00:00 +0000

The Silicon Valley technology subisidary of Walmart, @WalmartLabs, has acquired two cloud computing startups to further boost its capabilities.

Google Compute Engine Takes on AWS with General Availability

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:00:00 +0000

Amidst the launch of Google Play Music All Access, Google Play Game Services, updates to Google Maps and a variety of other consumer-driven product announcements, the news about the general availability of Google Compute Engine seems to be getting lost. Or maybe nobody is simply not surprised, as this is something the industry has been expecting for some time.

Friday's Last Word: Integral Networks CEO Bryan Badger

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:47:00 +0000

Note: Friday's Last Word is open to cloud-centric CEOs who want to pull back the curtains a bit on their lives. Click on each photo and check out the caption further above-right. To raise your hand and potentially be featured in Friday's Last Word, send email to Talkin' Cloud Associate Editor CJ Arlotta, cj.arlotta@penton.com.

Webcast Today: Cloud Backup Revenue Tips for MSPs from Intronis CEO

Thu, 16 May 2013 14:53:00 +0000

Intronis CEO Rick Faulk and VP of Channel Development Neal Bradbury will show MSPs (managed services providers) how to generate double-digit revenue growth from cloud backup and disaster recovery (BDR). Join us for the webcast at 2pm ET/11am PT today.

Google Apps Scores Over Microsoft Office 365 with NARA, CBC Wins

Thu, 16 May 2013 13:00:00 +0000

Google has scored two more government wins over Microsoft. The National Archives and Record Administration (NARA) has completed its migration of 4,500 employees over to Google Apps for Government.

Rackspace Makes Investment in Cloudant for NoSQL DBaaS

Thu, 16 May 2013 13:00:00 +0000

Rackspace is the latest company to make an investment NoSQL database-as-a-service (DBaaS) provider Cloudant. The Rackspace investment of an undisclosed sum follows three months after Samsung Ventures made a similar strategic investment in the company.

GigaSpaces' New Cloudify Player Designed for OpenStack

Wed, 15 May 2013 18:39:00 +0000

GigaSpaces has launched its Cloudify Player testing and development service on its own Cloudify platform, as well as on HP Cloud Services. The service was designed to support OpenStack-based clouds.

Google I/O: How Will Google Take On Competitors?

Wed, 15 May 2013 18:12:00 +0000

Google may well finally announce the general availability of Google Compute Engine, a cloud platform aimed at taking on Amazon Web Services the company announced a year ago at the last Google I/O conference. A year later, Google Compute Engine still hasn't been given the general availability okay, but there are rumors surfacing that I/O 2013 could be the big unveiling.

EMC Brings 'Proven Solution' for Virtual Private Cloud to SAP

Tue, 14 May 2013 16:59:00 +0000

EMC (NYSE: EMC) is offering two EMC Proven Solutions (technologies, services and instructions) to help organizations shift SAP workloads to virtual private cloud infrastructures and to protect them through disaster recovery for SAP on private clouds.

Cloud-Based Analytics Market to Top $16.52B by 2018

Tue, 14 May 2013 13:00:00 +0000

Analytics are top of mind these days, and they have become a priority for both IT and business professionals. As data continues to proliferate and fill the world's storage, whether on-premise or cloud, businesses need a way to track and analyze that data. Increasingly, they're looking to cloud-based offerings to help solve the problem. And the market for cloud-based business analytics is booming.

Desktone Desktop Virtualization Appliance Enables Public, Private Cloud Flexibility

Tue, 14 May 2013 13:00:00 +0000

Desktone is taking its cloud-hosted desktop platform to the on-premise world with a cloud-managed virtual desktop appliance capable of hosting up to 100 clients. The company aims to enable cloud services providers to give end-customers the flexibility of both cloud and on-premise IT solutions.

Box Acquires Crocodoc to Add HTML5 Document Viewing to Web, Mobile Apps

Mon, 13 May 2013 16:50:00 +0000

Box will soon be adding Crocodoc's HTML5 document rendering and viewing capabilities to its own cloud offerings. Box has acquired Crocodoc and plans to "deeply integrate" Crocodoc's technology into Box offerings, but at the same time, Box plans to continue offering Crocodoc as a core standalone platform to provide HTML5 document viewing to third-party applications on the web and on mobile devices.

Microsoft to Merge Office 365, Yammer Sales Teams

Mon, 13 May 2013 13:00:00 +0000

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is merging the sales organization of Yammer, it's acquired enterprise social media platform, into its Offce 365 sales organization. The move could put much more muscle behind Microsoft's efforts to grow sales of Yammer.

Webcast: Cloud Backup Sales Secrets for MSPs

Mon, 13 May 2013 05:00:00 +0000

Our May 16 Webcast will help MSPs to generate double-digit revenue growth from cloud-based backup and disaster recovery (BDR) services. Join us and learn from Intronis CEO Rick Faulk and VP of Channel Development Neal Bradbury.

Managed Services: 5 Myths That Doom Early-Stage MSPs

Mon, 13 May 2013 03:05:00 +0000

The managed services market is still ripe with opportunity, but far too many MSPs fail because of some simple myths and misunderstandings about the market. Here are five.

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Equinix Meets Amazon Direct Connect Cloud Service

Fri, 10 May 2013 14:45:00 +0000

The Amazon Web Services Direct Connect service is expanding to Seattle through the Equinix SE3 International Business Exchange (IBX) data center.

Cloud Business in a Box: Can Dell, OnApp Deliver?

Fri, 10 May 2013 14:41:00 +0000

Dell and OnApp have partnered to deliver to services provider "cloud business in a box" so they can build public and private clouds to compete against the likes of Amazon Web Services.

Friday's Last Word: Logicalis CEO Vince DeLuca

Fri, 10 May 2013 14:40:00 +0000

Logicalis CEO Vince DeLuca is building out a big managed services and cloud services business. So what is he up to outside of work? Talkin' Cloud finds the answers.

Dimension Data vs. Rackspace, Amazon in Cloud Storage Market?

Fri, 10 May 2013 14:35:00 +0000

Can Dimension Data compete against Amazon and Rackspace in cloud storage and compute services?

BeyondTrust Secures Virtualized Infrastructure with Retina Plug-in for VMware vCenter

Thu, 09 May 2013 15:00:00 +0000

Server virtualization has been growing at a fast clip over the last few years, and a new survey from BeyondTrust reveals that the implementation of security solutions for those virtual servers has not kept pace. That's left organizations vulnerable to security threats, the security vendor said in its announcement of the survey and a new plugin to help fix the problem.

GoodData, Box Enable Customers to Process, Analyze Collaborative Team Data

Thu, 09 May 2013 14:45:00 +0000

GoodData and Box are partnering on a cloud-based application. It provides Box users with the ability to process, view and analyze data about the effectiveness of collaborative teams.

Identropy SaaS Advisory Services Targets Shadow IT Problem

Thu, 09 May 2013 14:37:00 +0000

Identropy is targeting shadow IT users with the launch of a new SaaS Advisory service aimed helping organizations be sure all of the SaaS apps being used are within the purview of IT departments.

Earnings: Rackspace Cloud Loses Momentum, OpenStack Doesn't Help

Wed, 08 May 2013 21:45:00 +0000

Rackspace, the cloud services provider (CSP) and OpenStack promoter, delivered weaker than expected Q1 2013 results today. Can Rackspace battle back vs. Amazon Web Services and Windows Azure?

Backup and Recovery Challenges with vCloud Director Rick Vanover

Wed, 08 May 2013 18:10:00 +0000

Tier 3 Cloud Channel Partner Program Counters Amazon

Wed, 08 May 2013 15:24:00 +0000

Tier 3, the cloud services provider, has launched a reseller partner program for VARs and MSPs that want to offer IaaS. Is this a timely alternative to Amazon Web Services, Windows Azure and other big public clouds?