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Hybrid Cloud Architecture

• 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.