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May 17, 2013
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Walmart Acquires Cloud Startups OneOps and Tasty Labs

The Silicon Valley technology subisidary of Walmart, @WalmartLabs, has acquired two cloud computing startups to further boost its capabilities....More
May 17, 2013
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Google Compute Engine Takes on AWS with General Availability

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....More
May 16, 2013
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Webcast Today: Cloud Backup Revenue Tips for MSPs from Intronis CEO

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....More
May 16, 2013
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Rackspace Makes Investment in Cloudant for NoSQL DBaaS

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....More
May 16, 2013
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Google Apps Scores Over Microsoft Office 365 with NARA, CBC Wins

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....More
May 15, 2013
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GigaSpaces' New Cloudify Player Designed for OpenStack

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....More
May 15, 2013
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Google I/O: How Will Google Take On Competitors?

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....More
May 14, 2013
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EMC Brings 'Proven Solution' for Virtual Private Cloud to SAP

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....More
May 14, 2013
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Desktone Desktop Virtualization Appliance Enables Public, Private Cloud Flexibility

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....More
May 14, 2013
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Cloud-Based Analytics Market to Top $16.52B by 2018

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....More
May 13, 2013
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Box Acquires Crocodoc to Add HTML5 Document Viewing to Web, Mobile Apps

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....More
May 13, 2013
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Microsoft to Merge Office 365, Yammer Sales Teams

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....More
May 13, 2013
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Webcast: Cloud Backup Sales Secrets for MSPs

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....More
May 12, 2013
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Managed Services: 5 Myths That Doom Early-Stage MSPs

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....More

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