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Top 50 Cloud Services Providers: Survey Ends Today

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http://www.thevarguy.com – The 2nd Annual Top 50 Cloud Services Providers survey ends today (Friday, April 27). Complete the survey, available on Talkin’ Cloud (The VAR Guy’s sister site), and your company could be ranked among the world’s top CSPs in the Talkin’ Cloud 50. The survey is open VARs and MSPs that generate revenues from cloud-related projects and services. Survey participants also include cloud brokers, cloud aggregators and cloud integrators. Make sure you participate before today’s April 27 deadline. We’ll unveil the Top 50 CSPs during a May 16 webcast. Then, we’l (IT news)

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