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Hybrid Cloud Architecture

• July 17, 2013 17 Jul'13

  Hybrid cloud model here for the long-term

  The boss of hybrid cloud specialist Zynstra has argued that a mixture of hosted and on-premise is a way customers will be consuming cloud for years to come

• July 15, 2013 15 Jul'13

  Cloud the way for MSBs to catch up on larger rivals

  Using the cloud is the best way for medium-sized firms to catch up on the ICT investment gap between them and large enterprise competition

• July 15, 2013 15 Jul'13

  MicroScope's top stories, week ending 12 July 2013

  Polish Oracle reseller lands in UK, Dell's Kathy Schneider on the move, and Microsoft details channel cloud strategy at WPC 2013, in our regular look back at the top IT channel stories from the past week

• July 10, 2013 10 Jul'13

  Microsoft realigns partner cloud training, competencies

  At its Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) in Houston Texas, Microsoft has shared details of how it will change training and competencies to help partners make the most of the cloud

• July 09, 2013 09 Jul'13

  Microsoft rallies partners to build hybrid Azure

  At Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) in Houston, Texas, Microsoft announces a major push to attract businesses to use Azure through a “cloud first” strategy

• July 08, 2013 08 Jul'13

  Microsoft finds profits are higher at cloud partners

  Microsoft has shared with partners some IDC research it has commissioned that indicates those selling cloud are more successful

• July 03, 2013 03 Jul'13

  Cloud costs worry customers

  Compuware research has revealed that fears over hidden cloud costs and performance are worrying CIOs

• June 19, 2013 19 Jun'13

  Tech firm ditches Rackspace hosting service for ‘lack of support’

  Cloud sales service company Price & Quote has ditched IT hosting provider Rackspace due to “lack of support and unresponsiveness”

• June 19, 2013 19 Jun'13

  HotLink helps VARs address hypervisor management

  Latest Silicon Valley start-up touts award-winning multi-hypervisor and hybrid cloud management product as it sets up shop in Europe

• June 12, 2013 12 Jun'13

  Data knowledge key to making cloud moves

  Resellers have to help customers understand their own internal data flows before taking them into a cloud environment

• May 29, 2013 29 May'13

  Iomart sees annual profits soar by 56%

  Glasgow-based cloud computing company Iomart has reported a pre-tax profit up 56% to £10.7m for the year ending March 2013

• May 21, 2013 21 May'13

  Channel suppliers line up for G-Cloud III

  The latest phase of the government’s G-Cloud project once again includes a good number of channel stalwarts

• April 29, 2013 29 Apr'13

  MicroScope cloud survey highlights reseller worries

  A MicroScope survey on cloud computing has revealed that resellers are worried about vendors and many are not yet convinced it's time for them to make major changes

• April 29, 2013 29 Apr'13

  CloudSense bolsters vertical reach with Impactive buy

  CloudSense has acquired financial and telecoms IT consultancy Impactive as it looks to continue its growth

• April 05, 2013 05 Apr'13

  Branson advice sparks UKFast enterprise division

  A chat with Virgin founder Richard Branson has sparked some changes at UKFast as it split into two distinct operations

• February 27, 2013 27 Feb'13

  VMware flexes channel muscles at PEX

  VMware has added new incentives, enablement and collaboration programmes on the opening day of its global partner knees-up, PEX

• February 25, 2013 25 Feb'13

  MicroScope's top stories, week ending 22 February 2013

  Our regular look back at the most important channel news stories from the past seven days

• February 18, 2013 18 Feb'13

  Red Hat expects hybrid cloud approach to stay

  A senior manager for Red Hat has indicated it expects a hybrid approach to public and private cloud by customers to remain the norm for the foreseeable future

• November 23, 2012 23 Nov'12

  Vendor cloud recommendations not opening SME doors

  A good word from a vendor is not going to get small companies rushing into the arms of resellers as MicroScope research reveals that the channel has to develop its own story

• October 24, 2012 24 Oct'12

  VMware profits dip as expenses rack up

  Although it booked growth across the board in licence and services revenues, VMware’s profits failed to keep pace with the runaway growth in virtualisation and cloud infrastructure in Q3

• October 19, 2012 19 Oct'12

  BT iNet ramps up headcount

  BT iNet, the network services arm of BT, has embarked on a recruitment drive to bolster it's sales of cloud technologies to customers

• October 12, 2012 12 Oct'12

  Trend cloud programme designed to deal with user fears

  Trend Micro has launched a cloud programme for partners to arm them with the facts they need to overcome the nagging security doubts that continue to be held by customers

• October 05, 2012 05 Oct'12

  Dell adds final Cloud Enabler certification to PartnerDirect programme

  Six months after the official launch of its channel Cloud Services and Solutions competency certification, Dell has added the final Cloud Services Enabler specialisation to its PartnerDirect programme

• September 28, 2012 28 Sep'12

  Business issues rather than technical hold back cloud

  Customers are concerned about a range of issues incouding compliance and fear of contract lock-in as they weigh up the move to basing more of their IT in the cloud

• September 26, 2012 26 Sep'12

  Ingram celebrates a year of channel transformation

  Ingram Micro has marked the first anniversary of the Channel Transformation Alliance by outlining its plans to increase reseller support in year two

• September 21, 2012 21 Sep'12

  Oracle sees hardware decline, SaaS shine

  Oracle has once again seen its quarterly hardware sales tumbling, and the decline only looks set to continue as the vendor struggles to turn around its Sun business

• September 17, 2012 17 Sep'12

  Cloud adoption speeding up

  Adoption of cloud applications and services has speeded up over the last nine months as more customers start to embrace the technology

• September 12, 2012 12 Sep'12

  Salford City Council offers cloud service to local businesses

  Salford City Council will offer a private cloud service to local businesses through a partnership with ANS Group

• September 03, 2012 03 Sep'12

  Cloud still a foreign concept to many Europeans

  The BSA has discovered that across Europe there are mixed attitudes towards the cloud but the majority of users have little understanding of the technology

• August 20, 2012 20 Aug'12

  Level 3 boosts UK datacentre capacity

  Comms services provider Level 3 is adding to its UK enterprise datacentre capacity to support international business requirements.

• August 16, 2012 16 Aug'12

  Gartner calls time on peak of cloud hype

  The cloud has passed its peak in terms of hype and is now set for a period of more realistic expectations before becoming mainstream

• August 16, 2012 16 Aug'12

  Melbourne gives iomart Manchester base

  Cloud hosting specialist iomart Group has acquired Manchester-based hosting firm Melbourne Server Hosting, giving it a physical presence in north-west England for the first time.

• August 15, 2012 15 Aug'12

  Loss clouds ShoreTel figures

  Unified comms and cloud vendor ShoreTel has ended its financial year on a high with sales up but posted yet another quarterly net loss.

• August 08, 2012 08 Aug'12

  Rackspace profits from hosted demand

  Growing demand for hosted cloud services has pushed quarterly revenues at sector bellwether Rackspace up 29% year-on-year to $319m (£203.7m), while net profit of $25m was up 49%.

• July 19, 2012 19 Jul'12

  BSA exposes cloud application license abuse

  The BSA has discovered that firms are sharing log-in credentials for cloud applications between staff in a move that would violate license agreements

• July 10, 2012 10 Jul'12

  On Direct powers up cloud services expansion

  Cloud services provider On Direct has embarked on a partner recruitment drive as it prepares to deliver a series of enhancements to its Cloud Direct offering.

• July 09, 2012 09 Jul'12

  Cloud driving 2012 IT spend growth, says Gartner

  Gartner has raised its worldwide IT spending forecast by half a percentage point as enterprise buyers get cloud fever.

• July 08, 2012 08 Jul'12

  MicroScope's top stories, week ending 6 July 2012

  Our weekly round-up of the top 10 most read stories here on MicroScope.co.uk

• July 06, 2012 06 Jul'12

  Citrix joins Cloud Industry Forum

  Citrix has signed up to the Cloud Industry Forum, joining the likes of Microsoft and VMware.

• July 04, 2012 04 Jul'12

  Smith steps back as Redstone losses narrow

  Redstone chairman Ian Smith has stepped back from the role he took on in 2010 as the IT and networking integrator consolidates its recovery.

• June 26, 2012 26 Jun'12

  Comstor plants flag in Cisco, NetApp FlexPod environment

  Cisco-specialist Comstor has revealed it is to sell Cisco and NetApp's FlexPod datacentre architecture in EMEA after being handed distribution rights to the converged networking, server and storage solution.

• June 26, 2012 26 Jun'12

  Resellers to give Daisy partner programme the once-over

  Daisy Group partners have been invited to kick the tyres of the firm's indirect partner programme at its 'Evolve' relaunch event to be held this week in the Midlands.

• June 21, 2012 21 Jun'12

  Magirus gets prescription for new VSPEX

  Magirus is to offer EMC's midmarket-focused VSPEX cloud infrastructure product alongside its own SME vBundle offering after extending its partnership with the firm, and will be launching two new channel-enablement programmes to help boost sales of ...

• June 13, 2012 13 Jun'12

  Daisy launches CloudSelect offering at Cloud World Forum

  Daisy Group has become the latest services player to plunge headlong into the increasingly crowded pool of cloud providers, launching its CloudSelect offering at the fourth annual Cloud Computing World Forum in London.