Cloudbusters
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How to Talk to your Customers about PRISM and Government Data Mining
The news recently has been overrun with information regarding government data mining, spying, surveillance, and a number of questionable tactics that involves major corporations and vendors. If you haven’t been checking out the news, a quick search on any news site will bring you up to date with the goings on and the sudden [...]
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CompTia Report Shows Increase in Channel Conflict
IT industry association CompTia has just released a press release regarding a new study of conflict in the channel that is included in CompTIA’s Third Annual State of the Channel Study: Channel Conflict and Deal Registration Trends. The study found that there has been an impactful rise in vendor/partner conflict and the press release [...]
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Will N-Able Customers Stay Through Acquisition?
Big news in the MSP world today as well-known industry remote monitoring and management (RMM) player, N-Able, announced in a press release, that it is being acquired by SolarWinds for $120M. It would appear, from the press release that SolarWinds is looking to enhance its already robust product line to gain more traction in [...]
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Is Dell Preparing to Take Over the IT Space?
Dell has been making a lot of interesting moves lately and all of its moves point to a big shift in focus for the former hardware company. The latest in a long list of moves is the acquisition of enterprise cloud management company, Enstratius. According to the Enstratius website, they provide a suite of [...]
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Has the Build Your Own Cloud Trend Paid Off?
For a number of years there has been a trend in the MSP and IT community to build out internal cloud solutions. As I have discussed this trend with a number of providers, I have encountered a mix of successful and not so successful ventures. The build your own cloud movement (BYOC) started about 4 [...]
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Dell’s Future is Unclear
Michael Dell may have never thought that proposing a buyback of his company and taking the company private could have ended in him ousted as CEO, but that may be just what happens if one of the competing bids for the company is accepted. Back in January we reported that Dell was considering a privatization, [...]
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Zenith Infotech TigerCloud Test Drive released as Company Officers are Barred from India’s Stock Exchange
Zenith Infotech today, in a press release (see below), announced its latest TigerCloud Test Drive solution just as an order was passed in India barring Executives Rajkumar Saraf, Akash Saraf, Devita Saraf, Vijayrani Saraf, as well as two others from accessing or making any buys, sells, or trades on the securities exchange. Zenith Infotech, a [...]
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[Update] “Was not an Outage” ConnectWise Outage Denial of Service Attack to Blame?
(Update) – According to an email received from Jeannine Edwards Director, ConnectWise, LabTech & Quosal Communities clarifying the situation ConnectWise did not experience an outage, instead experienced a DDoS. The Connectwise North American Cloud suffered an outage today that affected a number of its customers. Users took to twitter and facebook looking for updates regarding [...]
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Google Drive Experiencing Intermittent Outages
Users of the Google Drive cloud storage solution have been experiencing intermittent outages and accessibility issues this morning. Reports sprang up on twitter that the service was experiencing issues. My first attempt to access the main page of the site at http://drive.google.com/start showed the 502 error “The server encountered a temporary error and could [...]
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Protecting Your Assets, Your Customers
Maybe you’ve never thought about it this way before, but your customers are your biggest asset in your business. If you’ve ever been approached by a competitor who wanted to buy your customers, you will understand exactly what I mean. Protecting these assets is just as important as protecting the physical assets within your business. There are many threats [...]
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Orlando Xchange Event opened with Controversial Session
CRN reported on the opening Cloud Computing session hosted by Gartner’s Vice President Tiffany Bova at the Xchange Solution Provider 2013 event currently running through March 12th. The session, which had Bova suggesting attendees “Fire all of your Salesforce”, in order to get into the cloud, may be considered by some to be controversial. [...]
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Evernote Hack Affects Millions
Popular cloud, note taking service Evernote, is the latest victim in a growing list of hacks, attacks, and security concerns for cloud-enabled companies. With an estimated 50 million users affected, the recent attack had social media and blogs buzzing with frustrated users. Evernote announced the compromise via its official blog site and explained that it [...]
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Collaborating in the Cloud
How Cloud Technology Helps Marketing Professionals Maximize Their Time and Performance by Gina Smith I can still remember the good old days working in marketing and public relations. There was no such thing as a “personal” schedule. My office schedule was set according to my clients needs. Times have drastically changed. Gone are the days [...]
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Microsoft goes to War with Google with “Scroogled” Campaign
Microsoft has launched an all out attack on Google in their latest marketing campaign for their Outlook.com solution. The campaign which they call “Scroogled” claims on the website of the same name “if you’re a Gmail user, Google scans all of your sent and received messages, extracts keywords that they think are relevant to you, [...]
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Amazon Outage Has Shoppers Contemplating Leaving their Homes, Yeah not likely…
Shoppers had to leave their homes for a brief period of time to get their shopping done today, while the mega-retailer Amazon experienced a roughly 45 minute outage. Some savvy shoppers however found it easier to choose other online retailers that were not experiencing an outage to purchase their wares. The outage only seemed [...]
