Business continuityAWS Outage Magnifies Multi-Cloud Management, Business Continuity & IoTJoe PanettieriFebruary 28, 2017Today's AWS outages are a painful reminder: Got multi-cloud management, cloud-to-cloud backup, business recovery and continuity in place?
Midmarket8×8 Up for Sale?Joe PanettieriFebruary 27, 20178x8 explores potential company sale, a report suggests. 8x8 competes against ShoreTel (also for sale) in cloud-based UCaaS, cloud & hosted VoIP markets.
Channel partner programsTop 10 IaaS Clouds: CSP Reviews, Rankings of AWS, Azure, Google, IBM, MoreJoe PanettieriFebruary 24, 2017Cloud reviews & rankings of Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google, IBM & IaaS alternatives. Cloud Spectator's 2017 Top 10 Cloud IaaS Providers Benchmark.
Channel chiefsDell EMC’s CSP Partner Program: Dell Financial Services Provides CapEx, OpEx Secret SauceJoe PanettieriFebruary 23, 2017Dell EMC Partner Program intros cloud service provider (CSP) revenue, rebate & engineering perks. Plus, Dell Financial Services solves CapEx, OpEx needs.
Mergers and AcquisitionsOVH Acquires Oregon Data Center, Offers Free DDoS Attack ProtectionJoe PanettieriFebruary 23, 2017OVH, a CSP for Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), now owns 23 data centers worldwide. Patents & DDoS attack mitigation are points of differentiation.
CSPsReal Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) Keep Buying Data CentersJoe PanettieriFebruary 22, 2017Carter Validus Mission Critical REIT II, a non-traded real estate investment trust, acquires an Arizona data center for $16.2 million. More to come?
CSPsBlackstone Acquires AWS, Microsoft, Salesforce Cloud Partner CloudreachJoe PanettieriFebruary 17, 2017Blackstone acquires Cloudreach, a $60 million MSP & IT consulting firm that supports Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure & Salesforce clouds.
Channel chiefsSalesforce Consulting Partner Program Makes Cross-Cloud Sales PushJoe PanettieriFebruary 16, 2017Salesforce Consulting Partner Program update rewards cross-cloud certification. Senior VP Neeracha Taychakhoonavudh explains.
