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Insight welcomed into Cloud Industry Forum
Insight UK has become the latest channel player to throw in its lot with the Cloud Industry Forum, the industry body that works to advocate cloud services and establish codes of practice around the accountability, transparency and capability of cloud... News | 10 Oct 2011
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App store model to transform channel by 2015
Analyst firm Canalys has used its Channels Forum in Barcelona to urge resellers to look beyond cloud computing, saying the growth of enterprise app stores represents "the true transformational force within the enterprise software market". C... News | 04 Oct 2011
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Cloud to become a business conversation in 2012
Cloud computing is to become "more of a business and not just a technology conversation" during the next 12 months, according to a global study carried out by auditors KPMG. KPMG grilled 806 senior executives in 15 countries earlier this ye... News | 04 Oct 2011
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Ingram Micro takes practical approach to the cloud
Selling the cloud is something that the channel knows it needs to start thinking about but getting from a situation where it is just an idea to a solid business plan requires a fair bit of work. There appear to be plenty of people queuing up to provi... News | 30 Sep 2011
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Cloud offering won't compete with channel, says Virgin Media
Virgin Media Business (VMB)has teamed up with cloud computing specialist Savvis to launch its first true cloud product, the Virtual Private Data Centre (VPDC), but has moved to reassure its service provider channel that it does not plan to compete wi... News | 28 Sep 2011
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UK cloud market set for continued growth
The UK is leading the way with cloud services adoption and those channel players that fail to 'cloudify' their offerings in the managed services space face increasing pressure. The views of Martin Hingley, founder4 of ITCandor, indicate that the shi... News | 23 Sep 2011
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Interoute buys into app services market with Quantix acquisition
Cloud infrastructureservices provider Interoute has spent an undicsloed sum to buy Midlands-basedOracle platinumpartner Quantix in an attempt to get into managed application services as well. Interoute will look to exploit Quantix's 'OraCloud' platfo... News | 21 Sep 2011
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IBM extends cloud helping hand to resellers
IBM has held out its hand to resellers wanting to move into the cloud providing a step by step route to hosted services as well as reducing the financial risk involved with moving to a more flexible business model. Big Blue launched a Smart Commerce... News | 20 Sep 2011
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Ingram takes wraps off Channel Transformation Alliance
Ingram Micro has taken the wraps off an alliance that is tasked with promoting and furthering the spread of cloud computing and managed services in the channel. The Channel Transformation Alliance includes a list of household names as founding membe... News | 19 Sep 2011
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Government told "go cloud or die" by Salesforce.com boss
The UK government has been urged to embrace the cloud by one of the leading proponents of hosted services, writes Nick Booth. The call was made by Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff at the company's annual rally, Cloudforce 2011, which was held in Lond... News | 16 Sep 2011