With companies looking to consolidate and institute cost-effective strategies in every department, many are turning to a Managed Services Provider (MSP). MSPs manage all the Information Technology (IT) work for a client for a fraction of the cost, meeting network monitoring, remote data backup and network security needs. In addition to providing services to clients such as IP telephony, messaging and call center, virtual private network (VPN) and managed firewalls, MSPs also oversee all these provisions. In so doing, capital expenditure costs are minimized, fixed costs can be determined and 24-hour support is always an option. For clients who utilize the Cloud, the power of MSPs increases as the companies oversee not just IT practices but Cloud services as well. MSPs work with the client and its Cloud provider to offer affordable solutions for customers. To read more about MSP cloud solutions, check back here.
5/16/2012
StraTech is a Certified Dell Premier Partner and serves all customer segments with a focus on storage and servers. It also serves Dell KACE Systems Management Appliances, a part of Dell's Efficient Enterprise family of products. The company provides customers with the opportunity to consolidate support and to have one source of accountability for IT infrastructure success.
Recently, TODO1, an online banking and e-services company has picked up StraTech to provide Dell technical support.
5/16/2012
On the heels of announcing three new IT services packages, communications provider EarthLink, Inc. has launched EarthLink Business IT Services Cloud Workspace.
5/16/2012
Terremark recently announced that it has expanded its North American cloud infrastructure capacity due to the rising enterprise demand for protected cloud computing offerings. Terremark has implemented a node of its Enterprise Cloud at its Denver data center to increase the cloud infrastructure capacity. The organization already has several cloud-enabled data centers across the globe, which easily combines protected and agile cloud computing resources with an extensive solution portfolio within a multi-carrier, highly flexible, and protected unit.
5/16/2012
Enterprise Information Protection (EIP) solutions provider, Verdasys, has announced the availability of its managed Data Loss Prevention services in Europe. The company has two new offerings geared toward Global 2000 clients.
The new Verdasys Managed Service for Information Protection (MSIP) and the Verdasys Information Protection as a Service (IPaaS) offerings provide businesses with on-demand data protection technology, hosted at the company's secure European facilities.
5/16/2012
SAP AG (SAP) recently announced that its SAP Afaria mobile device management solution will now be available via the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace. This integration provides a reliable, cost-efficient, and easy option for clients to effectively manage their enterprise mobile applications and secure their company-owned and personally-owned devices as well.
5/16/2012
Telx provides a cloud-neutral, secure, highly redundant and reliable data center environment to its customers. Using cloud computing, storage or applications, enterprises can launch new services without interrupting normal service or incurring the expense of hardware upgrades.
5/16/2012
CopperEgg, Corp. has raised $2.1 million from investors - as it also names a new CEO.
5/16/2012
Cloud orchestration software provider Flexiant has launched a new version of its Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator (previously called Extility). The company is a European provider of on-demand, fully automated provisioning of cloud services.
5/15/2012
While the widespread uptake of cloud computing appears to be a foregone conclusion, it's an evolution that is taking a natural course of events, but some vendors take this to mean that in due time, it will implicitly be a "game changer" for their business.
5/15/2012
UK-based IT services provider, Kelway has rolled out its cloud services portfolio, Kelway ServiceWorks, offering customers a compute platform, email and backup services.
5/14/2012
Horizon Technology, a distributor of information storage and display products, asserted that the newly launched Horizon Private Cloud (HPC) is a premium, cloud-based desktop as a service (DaaS) solution that is designed to cater to the specialized and legacy needs of companies of all sizes. Now as part of an IT infrastructure agreement, it has signed with outsourced IT solutions provider, Latisys. The Horizon Private Cloud will be receiving data center hosting, power, and bandwidth from Latisys' high density SOC 2 and SOC 3 audited data center in Irvine, CA.
5/14/2012
Select organizations will now be able to eliminate the administrative burden and costs associated with tape technology by deploying Whitewater gateways with HP Cloud Services. Client companies will be able set up Whitewater gateways and shift data to the cloud, often in less than an hour.
