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.
Does your company rank among the world’s top 100 cloud services providers (CSPs)? Prove it and celebrate your success. Participate in Takin’ Cloud’s third-annual Top 100 CSP survey.
VMware (NYSE: VMW) this week launched a hybrid cloud strategy — which will ultimately include a public cloud that competes with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Windows Azure, Rackspace, and other cloud services providers (CSPs). The big question: Should VMware’s own CSP partners be concerned? The VAR Guy votes no.
Attend today’s cloud backup and recovery webcast “Recurring Cloud Backup Revenue: 2 Options for VARs & MSPs” and discover how cloud backup services offer an excellent opportunity for recurring revenues.
Joining Joe Panettieri (editorial director of MSPmentor, The VAR Guy, Talkin’ Cloud) will be John Gorsin, senior manager, NA Channel Sales, EVault, who will discuss the benefits of using
The VAR Guy is packing his bags to attend both IBM PartnerWorld and Cisco Partner Velocity the week of February 27. In the meantime, here are the nine most read technology news and channel partner stories from our blog network — The VAR Guy, MSPmentor and Talkin’ Cloud — for the week ending Feb.
As Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) attempts to connect with cloud services providers (CSPs), the operating system seems to be facing surprise competition from a fierce rival. Microsoft Windows Azure? Nope. Ubuntu? Wrong again. The second coming of Unix? Not quite. Actually, the cloud OS rival could be CentOS — the free, unsupported version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Amid all the mainstream hype about Windows 8, Surface tablets and Apple iPads, the Google Chromebook strategy quietly marches forward. If you check a local Best Buy retail story, you might even see Chromebooks (cloud-centric laptops) on display near the Apple section. But how are Chromebooks attracting channel partners and corporate customers?
As the Microsoft Office 15 launch apparently approaches in San Francisco, hosting providers and cloud services providers (CSPs) are gathering for Boston HostingCon 2012. At the cloud hosting event, many attendees will discuss Office as a cloud service or as a VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) service.
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Avnet Technology Solutions (NYSE: AVT) are expected to unveil a cloud computing partnership, Talkin’ Cloud reported. For VARs that offer on-premise database and storage solutions, the Amazon-Avnet relationship could offer a clearer path into cloud services.