Five Different Ways To Sell Cloud Computing To Anyone 1. Like an Early 1900s Market Place Traveling Salesman You there sir and my dear lady, please step right up and let me tell you all a secret that is only ready for the likes that show the greatest of intelligence, such as yourselves. Now that I have you, did you know that we are living in the Technological Age? Technological Age you say? Yes sir and yes ma’am I will tell you now that we live in an age where technology is king, and I got a real humdinger for
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Google’s Partner Program To Push Cloud Services I have written about cloud computing companies and their partnership programs before (See: Cloud Biggies and their Partnership Programs); now, Google, one of the earliest movers to the cloud but a late starter as far as cloud partnership programs are concerned, has decided to address that gap in its portfolio. While Google did have a program in place that allowed resellers to offer the SaaS product Google Apps, the new Google Cloud Partner Program will enable them to expand to PaaS and IaaS with the Google App Engine and Google Compute Engine respectively. Thus, with this new program
SMBs Using Cloud Storage Also High On Network-Attached Storage More than seven in ten small and medium-size businesses that use cloud-based storage solutions also use networked-attached storage (NAS), according to a newly released survey by research firm In-Stat. This report comes close at the heels of an IBM report that said sixty percent of organizations will embrace cloud computing over the next five years. This finding was based on a survey of more than 3,000 global Chief Information Officers. For those unaware, network-attached storage is a specialized server that is connected to a network which provides file-based data storage services
Gelb’s Expertise and Success With NetApp MultiStore Educates the Market and Drives New Cloud-Based Solutions ORANGE, CA–(Source: Marketwire – January 5, 2011) – Insight Integrated Systems (IIS), a division of Insight Investments LLC, the industry expert in technology solutions and financial engineering, today announced that Scott Gelb, senior consulting systems engineer, Insight Integrated Systems, was formally recognized by NetApp for his contribution and giving back to the NetApp community through his work with cloud-based MultiStore® storage technology. This award was presented recently in Las Vegas, NV, at the NetApp Insight Tech Conference*, a three-day networking and technical training event. Together,
Practically Speaking about Cloud Storage If we ever have a chance to sit back and think, we will wonder how easily we accumulate things and store them in various places. Whether it is in our personal life or in the companies that we work or connected with, we can find that. In digital life too, we gather a lot of information and data and try to store them in convenient places that we find. Worldwide there is a huge growth of digital data. Data here means a lot. Not necessarily a text message or a spreadsheet. Audio, Video included. If
Three-Year Stellar Growth Makes DDN the Only Enterprise Storage Company to Make Prestigious Inc. 5000 List CHATSWORTH, CA–(Source: Marketwire) – DataDirect Networks (DDN), the leading data infrastructure provider for the world’s most scalable, content-intensive enterprises, today announced its inclusion in the 2010 Inc. 5000, an exclusive ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. DDN ranked fourth on the list among all computer hardware vendors. DDN was also the only enterprise storage vendor to make the 2010 list, which during its 29 years of publication by Inc. has included nearly every major corporation to emerge in the United States during that
HP Wins 3Par At $33, Beats Dell Until this morning, Dell and Hewlett-Packard were mired in a bidding war over 3Par, a leading provider of utility storage solutions for enterprises. With a final bid of $2.4 billion for the company, HP has emerged the winner. Below we highlight the significance of 3Par and how it may impact HP’s storage in the future. Utility storage primer Utility storage is a category of data storage systems designed for utility computing, a form of information technology in which storage and computation are delivered as a metered service, rather like a power utility. 3Par’s
PRWeb Farmington Hills, MI (Vocus) August 3, 2010 Fear of the unknown is a powerful emotion. But when you’re an IT exec, fear of the unknown – particularly when you’re talking about moving into the cloud – really comes down to fear of making a costly mistake. To help its customers navigate through the cloud computing conundrum, Logicalis, an international provider of integrated information and communications technology (ICT) solutions and services, has identified Six Critical Questions CIOs Should Ask Before Entering the Cloud. At this point, most businesses have read enough about cloud computing to know that it can potentially
