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Who Are the Top 50 Cloud Computing Services Providers?

Today we’ve launched our second annual Talkin’ Cloud 50 Survey, which will identify the world’s top cloud computing services providers. The survey is open to all CSPs, cloud aggregators, cloud brokers, cloud integrators, MSPs and VARs that generate cloud-related revenues. So what’s different about our second-annual Talkin’ Cloud 50 Survey vs. last year’s edition? Here […]

Five Cloud Computing Services Experts To Watch, Jan. 13

It’s time to get back into a rhythm with our Talkin’ Cloud 200 — which identifies cloud computing experts who work with cloud services providers, cloud aggregators, cloud brokers, VARs and managed services providers. Each week, Talkin’ Cloud adds five new cloud computing experts to the list. Over time, the Talkin’ Cloud 200 can become […]

Photizo Acquires Lyra: Managed Document Services Research

Photizo Acquires Lyra: Managed Document Services Research

Photizo Group, a managed print services research and consulting firm, has acquired Lyra Research, a research and consulting company that has strong ties to the international imaging industry. This is the latest in a growing list of acquisitions within the managed services market since since the start of 2012. Financial terms of the Photizo Group-Lyra […]

Office 365’s Weakest Link: Small Business Phone Support?

It’s the classic question: How can partners hope to maintain customer control as Microsoft promotes Office 365 cloud applications into small business accounts? The simple answer VARs, MSPs and cloud integrators should give to their customers: “Have you ever tried calling Microsoft’s small business phone support for Office 365?” Fact is, such phone support doesn’t […]

Forecast: SMB Tablet, iPad Spending In 2012 Will Be Big

Small and midsize businesses (SMBs) apparently have growing plans for tablet computers and Apple iPad purchases in 2012, according to The NPD

Managed Print Services: HP, Lexmark, Xerox, Claim Victory

Managed Print Services: HP, Lexmark, Xerox, Claim Victory

Talk about jumping on a crowded bandwagon. When International Data Corp. unveiled its MarketScape study of the managed print services (MPS) market, Xerox, Hewlett-Packard and Lexmark each claimed MPS victories. The IDC MarketScape study reminds MSPmentor of Gartner Inc.’s Magic Quadrant for Managed Print Services Worldwide. Each time new study results surface, multiple technology companies stand […]

HP Study Explores Information Management Trends

How are enterprises evolving their information management strategies? A recent Coleman Parkes Research study, organized by Hewlett-Packard, may offer some answers. The study included over 500 interviews with top-level business and technology executives from enterprise companies around the world. Each company has at least 1,000 employees.

Microsoft Cloud Chief: Office 365 is the Partner-Friendly Cloud

Microsoft Cloud Chief: Office 365 is the Partner-Friendly Cloud

Fair’s fair, and after giving Google time to explain its cloud channel play, how could I refuse when Senior Director of Microsoft Online Services Tom Rizzo came to San Francisco and offered the same kind of insight into Microsoft Office 365? In the course of our discussion, which included some new security updates, there was […]

Cisco OnPlus: Helping Cloud Providers Manage Customer Networks

Cisco OnPlus: Helping Cloud Providers Manage Customer Networks

Cisco Systems has launched OnPlus, a cloud-delivered service designed to give VARs and other channel pros a way to manage and assess their customers’ networks. Cisco sees this as an expansion of its Partner Led Sales initiative, as it helps its channel partners grow their business with a new managed service offering. The way it […]

Appirio Accelerates European Cloud Push with Saaspoint Buy

Cloud integrator Appirio is making good on its intent to grow globally with the acquisition of European cloud service provider Saaspoint — its fourth such purchase in 2011, and one that’s going to help Appirio investor Salesforce.com fulfill its goal of expanding its channel presence in EMEA. In the official press release, Appirio repeatedly mentioned […]

Microsoft Windows Azure Inner Circle Grows with Neudesic

Microsoft has expanded its Windows Azure PaaS partner advisory council yet again with the announcement that custom cloud application developer Neudesic would be joining the Azure Circle program. Much like previous circle entrant Nimbo, Neudesic is claiming to have plenty of experience in developing cloud solutions designed to meet specific customer needs, all hosted from […]

SnapLogic, Orchestra Networks Partner For Cloud Data Management

SnapLogic, the self-described “cloud connection company,” has announced its integration platform now supports Orchestra Networks’ smartdatagovernance.com, billed as the first cloud-based master data management (MDM) solution. In the official press release, SnapLogic promotes smartdatagovernance.com (these names are killing me) as enabling customers to “quickly and easily establish a single source of truth about their company’s […]

Appirio Launches Cloud Social Networking Connector Toolkit

Cloud integrator Appirio has announced a new Social Enterprise Toolkit designed to help customers connect new applications with existing social networks. In plainer terms, Appirio has released a set of 20-plus tools to help bring its customers closer with Salesforce Chatter, Facebook, Twitter and the rest of the social web while still meeting their specific […]

My Confession: Why SMBs Need MSPs for Reliable Cloud Services

Last week was a painful one for me. First, I took a polite hit from Brendan Cosgrove, director of social media and community at Kaseya. Then, I took a few lumps from Nick Bock, CEO of Five Nines Technology Group, an MSP in Lincoln, Neb. In public forums and in private meetings, Cosgrove, Bock and […]

Can MSPs Become Cloud Services Providers?

It’s a new chapter in an old story. First, some resellers became VARs. Then some VARs became managed services providers (MSPs). Now, a group of consulting firms and software companies (players like ChannelCloud, Level Cloud, PointClickWork and OS33) are striving to help MSPs become cloud services providers (CSPs) and cloud integrators. The trend was front-and-center […]

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