"Small and Midsize Business (SMB) Cloud Computing" Posts
SMB cloud computing information on Talkin’ Cloud covers how small and midsize businesses use cloud computing and cloud services like IaaS, PaaS and SaaS.
BUMI, a provider of managed online backup and recovery solutions for small to midsized businesses, announced the latest version of its flagship data backup and recovery service. According to BUMI (a.k.a., Backup My Info), enhancements include expanded integration with NetApp storage solutions, increased performance for VMware backups, support for Mac OS X Lion and OS X Snow Leopard, and an improved Network Operations Center.
“We’re very excited about this new release and how it will allow us to provide …
When it comes to profiting from Microsoft Office 365, Terry Hedden has a slightly different view of the world. As CEO of Infinity Technology Solutions, an MSP in Tampa, Fla., Hedden sees at least five ways VARs and MSPs can profit from cloud computing — outside of the recurring revenues that Microsoft offers to partners.
During the Kaseya Connect 2012 user conference last week in Las Vegas, Hedden said his company charges cloud customers for the following five services:…
IT services partnering specialist independenceIT (iIT) and AIR Technology Services, a tech consultancy, have launched a strategic partnership to make iIT’s Total Freedom and Instant Freedom cloud-based workspace solutions available to AIR Tech’s SMB customers. The integration, according to the press release, “will enable AIR Technology Services customers to quickly and easily access all of their critical business applications and data at any time and from any device.”
“The iIT platform is so easy to use that we’ve been …
Google Apps Authorized Resellers Agosto and Cloud Sherpas each remain on the go. Indeed, Agosto says it grew revenues more than 250 percent in 2011, and recently opened an office in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Meanwhile, Cloud Sherpas has partnered with CipherCloud, a provider of cloud data protection gateways for public and private clouds.
While announcing the Toronto office opening, Agosto mention that the company has completed a major customer migration from Exchange to Google Apps; the deal involved 17,000 …
If you’re a small or midsize business (SMB) managing between 2TB and 7TB of data, there’s a 20 percent chance you suffered a data loss in the past year. That figure, based on survey data from Vanson Bourne and EVault, suggests there’s plenty of upside opportunity ahead for cloud service providers (CSPs) that specialize in backup, recovery and DRaaS (disaster recovery as a service).
First, a disclaimer: I typically don’t pay much attention to technology vendor surveys. While I …
Cloud-based data delivery firm DataMotion has launched the latest version of its namesake platform-as-a-service (PaaS), which the company bills as a secure data delivery hub for messages, files and forms from disparate vendors, enabling users to send and receive data from one central location.
According to the company, the DataMotion Platform operates on a central hub for secure delivery of messages, files and forms; integrates with various systems; and is secured by military-grade encryption. Partners can offer the DataMotion Platform …
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has launched CloudSearch, a fully managed, scalable cloud service that permits customers to integrate search capabilities into their applications. To get the search functionality running, according to AWS users simply create a search domain, upload the data they want to search, and CloudSearch will provide both the technology resources and the necessary search indexes. Going forward, businesses can change the search parameters, relevance and settings to suit their needs, without having to upload the same data.…
Google Apps is catching on with enterprise customers, and Google Apps adoption among small businesses has nearly doubled in the past six months. Those anecdotes surfaced yesterday during a Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) 1Q 2012 earnings call with financial analysts. The Google Apps mentions were brief but strategic — confirming that Google’s executive team continues to focus on the SaaS market and competition with Microsoft Office 365.
According to Nikesh Arora, senior VP and chief business officer:
“Our Enterprise business also
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Cloud computing and virtualization company EMC (NYSE: EMC) launched its VSPEX Proven Infrastructure, a cloud reference architecture using industry standard technology, designed to enable partners to implement cloud environments easily and quickly.
VSPEX consists of EMC storage systems and backup applications, as well as virtualization, server and network technology from EMC partners including Brocade, Cisco Systems, Citrix, Intel, Microsoft, and VMware.
VSPEX customers can choose a private cloud setup by running VMware vSphere 5.0…
OpenStack founder and cloud hosting provider Rackspace (NYSE: RAX) announced the updated version of its Hosted Microsoft Exchange e-mail service, featuring increased mobile capabilities and more e-mail storage, plus collaboration capabilities via Microsoft Sharepoint.
Features of Rackspace’s updated Hosted Exchange Service:
- Reliability: Rackspace provides a 100 percent uptime SLA and conducts e-mail back-ups several times a day
- Mobile Synchronization: Free ActiveSync solution gives customers the ability to integrate calendars, contacts and tasks with their mobile device
- Increased Capacity: Offers 25GB
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