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Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

• May 07, 2014 07 May'14

  Playing cupid in the cloud – finding the perfect partner

  Dave Ellis, director of strategy, Arrow ECS has some advice for those channel players looking for the right cloud partner

• April 29, 2014 29 Apr'14

  AWS Summit London: Amazon on channel charm offensive

  At its London partner and customer summit, Amazon Web Services presents itself not as a threat to channel businesses but as means by which channel businesses can evolve to meet growing cloud demand from customers

• April 28, 2014 28 Apr'14

  IBM launches partner cloud marketplace at Impact conference

  Big Blue claims its cloud marketplace will help partners tap into a $250bn opportunity and showcase its capabilities and ambitions as a leading cloud devotee

• April 28, 2014 28 Apr'14

  MicroScope's top stories, week ending 25 April 2014

  Six Degrees datacentre drops off the grid, software pirates sunk, and Westcon buys little brother Intact. Catch up on the biggest stories from the past week

• April 15, 2014 15 Apr'14

  Softcat records 30% year-on-year growth

  IT infrastructure provider Softcat has notched up revenues of £395.8 million for its financial year ending 31 July 2013, representing a 30% year-on-year increase

• April 09, 2014 09 Apr'14

  NGD signs BT Openreach Ethernet deal to increase capacity, speed

  Next Generation Data picks BT’s local access network business, Openreach, to provide high-speed connectivity at its South Wales datacentre facility

• April 04, 2014 04 Apr'14

  New Networks First MD forges managed security future

  Recently-appointed Networks First managing director Tom Mulvaney sets his sights on growing the managed network provider’s security practice in the face of channel demand

• March 27, 2014 27 Mar'14

  Amazon follows Google with cloud price cuts

  Just a day after Google announced price cuts to its cloud services its rival Amazon has followed

• March 21, 2014 21 Mar'14

  Brocade claims first-mover advantage in SDN evolution

  With the launch of a new channel track built around its software-defined networking offer and growth in its Ethernet fabric proposition Brocade says it is beginning to win in staunch Cisco environments

• March 20, 2014 20 Mar'14

  Proximity talks expansion in virtualisation, security markets

  As it reflects on a successful year of growth, UC and managed services provider Proximity Communications has revealed it is looking to grow into new markets to improve its end-to-end offering

• March 18, 2014 18 Mar'14

  SolidFire: flash evangelists missing the big picture

  Flash array vendor SolidFire has unveiled a series of enhancements to its operating system and criticised rivals for failing to look beyond pure speed when it comes to solid state sales

• March 11, 2014 11 Mar'14

  SaaS the most popular public cloud option

  Research from analyst house METISfiles indicates that SaaS is the most popular public cloud option in the UK ahead of IaaS or PaaS options

• February 26, 2014 26 Feb'14

  Telstra Global highlights risk of cloud stagnation

  Customers who are not helped to exploit the cloud face losing out to the competition according to Telstra Global

• February 26, 2014 26 Feb'14

  IBM cloud investment will boost UK datacentre options

  Plans by IBM to spend $1.2bn on building more global datacentres will see millions spent in the UK

• February 26, 2014 26 Feb'14

  Intermedia on EMEA charge following SaaSID buy

  Hosted cloud provider Intermedia plans an aggressive ramp-up of its European business this year following its autumn 2013 acquisition of cloud security player SaaSID