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VMware throws weight behind Cloud Industry Forum
Cloud sector heavyweight VMware has given its backing to the Cloud Industry Forum, becoming the latest provider to join the industry body. It adds itsmarket clout, with over 300,000 customers and 25,000 resellers,to alist of names that already includ... News
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Column: Fatal Assumptions. The cloud meets science fiction
Imagine if all these terrible global warming projections come true, and we're forced to up sticks and move to another planet. Naturally, the locals won't be happy, so we'll have to string them along for a while until it's too late for them to get the... Opinion
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Rackspace bemoans cloud talent shortage
Hosted services provider Rackspace is to embark on a new recruitment drive and is in talks with a number of universities to establish cloud computing as an element of the IT curriculum. The firm's international MD Taylor Rhodes said that some of the ... News
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Where the rubber meets the road for your cloud transformation
In the last year or two, the IT industry has spent ample time investigating, pondering, and debating the impact that the cloud and IT-as-a-Service would have on the IT channel and on the IT reseller business model, writes Jason Beal. Undoubtedly you ... Opinion
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UK ranks seventh on cloud ready chart
The growth of government backed cloud schemes, such as the one unveiled at the start of this week, could run into trouble because of differing data regulations. The UK government's decision to launch the G-Cloud to procure products and services is so... News
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Cloud spending polarising between will and will nots
The cloud market appears to be polarising with those that have not made or planned for an investment in the technology likely to sit out the shift towards flexible delivery of data and applications. There has always been a section of the customer bas... News
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Channel players named to G-Cloud supplier framework
A host of industry players learned at the weekend that they have been selected to provide cloud services to the public sector under Westminster's long-awaited G-Cloud framework. Among the companies that have been successful are some big channel names... News
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Mid-market the cloud sweetspot
The mid market is the sweet spot for resellers pitching the cloud as smaller and larger firms both take their time adopting the technology. The lack of in-house skills is keeping small firms from taking steps into the hosted world and fears over sec... News
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Government to name G-Cloud suppliers
The government is to name the suppliers awarded a place on its G-Cloud framework on Sunday 19 February, with the associated CloudStore catalogue of services to go live in the next week. The £60m G-Cloud framework comprises includes infrastruct... News
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An advantage for the channel: people do business with people
We've all heard the adage that "people do business with people they know, like, and trust." It's not something taught in textbooks of university business classes, but anybody who has been in the business world for more than a few years cert... Opinion