Category Archives: Cloud
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First Cloud Discovery Day sees great turnout
Above: Alan Finden of HP talks about his experiences at The TD Cloud Discovery Day
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Computer 2000 unveils TD Cloud plans to UK resellers at first Discovery Day event
Computer 2000, the UK arm of Tech Data, revealed the details of its ambitious and ground-breaking TD Cloud programme to reseller partners at a special Cloud Discovery Day event earlier this week.
The company unveiled details of its TD Cloud programme, which will provide an end-to-end cloud enablement path for resellers, to around 60 invited customers. Key vendor partners, HP, Microsoft, Cisco Brocade and Symantec, also outlined their own cloud strategies and explained how they plan to work with Computer 2000 on the TD Cloud programme
The event was exceptionally well-received, said Joel Chimoindes, who is leading the TD Cloud programme for Computer 2000 in the UK. “We got some excellent and enthusiastic feedback. Resellers seem to like our plans, so we are very pleased and looking forward to making contact with those who attended and getting them enrolled and actively engaged in the TD Cloud programme.”
The TD Cloud programme will provide a comprehensive set of resources that will enable resellers to become enabled as a Cloud Reseller, Cloud Builder, or Cloud Provider. Computer 2000 will draw on its own dedicated cloud team and its strong strategic relationships with key vendors to provide education, business transformation and enablement, sales and marketing support and deployment resources for TD Cloud partners.
“The concept is one that takes the reseller as well as the customer on a journey”, said Chimoindes. “End-user organisations will adopt cloud computing at different paces and in different ways and it will be just the same for resellers. TD Cloud will provide them with a framework that enable them to embrace and offer the cloud services that are most suited to their business and their customer base. It will enable them to develop at a pace that makes sense for them whilst always keeping their finger on the pulse of a rapidly-changing market landscape.”
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Public sector workers keenest on cloud apps
Well over half of employees in the UK (62%) want to see the day-to-day software they use at work transferred to the cloud, according to a study carried out with 5,000 businesses by Virgin Media Business. Public sector organisations came out as amongst the keenest with 61 per cent saying they would like to access all their software for work through the cloud. One in ten public sector staff already use cloudbased software on a daily basis and in the private sector, 16% of firms use the technology, with over a quarter (27%) looking to add cloud computing to their existing business model in 2012.
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Computer 2000 signs deal with Acronis
Brings easy cloud and virtualised data protection and DR to a wider market
Computer 2000 has signed a UK distribution deal with Acronis, a leading provider of easy-to-use disaster recovery and data protection solutions across physical, virtual and cloud environments. The agreement will give Computer 2000’s customers access to the full range of solutions from Acronis, including the popular Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Server for Windows, Acronis vmProtect 6 and Backup & Recovery 11 Virtual Edition.
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Ovum predicts massive expansion of public cloud
The global public cloud services market will more than triple in size over the next five years to reach revenues of $66 billion in 2016, according to Ovum, growing close to 30 percent a year on average. It noted however that although the market will see strong growth, ‘the evolution of cloud computing within enterprises and the IT trends that follow will happen more slowly.’ After North America, which will generate half of all business, EMEA will be the biggest market. Western Europe will grow at a CAGR of 31.2 percent from 2011 to 2016 to reach $17.2 billion, up from $4.4 billion in 2011.
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Microsoft opens up Office 365 for beta testing
Microsoft has made the cloud-based Office 365 available for public beta testing. The service combines Office applications with hosted versions of Exchange and SharePoint as well as Microsoft’s Lync communication and collaboration software. It also comes with the ForeFront security client for online protection. Different versions of the suite will be available for enterprise and SMB customers and education.
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Virtualisation cutting a path for cloud adoption
According to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Server Virtualisation Tracker, 19.4% of all new servers shipped in the Q4 of 2010 were virtualised, up from 18.4% in Q4 2009. End-user spending on virtualised servers increased 23.3% in 4Q10. The company says that this is paving the way for cloud adoption, describing virtualisation as ‘a critical evolutionary step in the journey to the private cloud’.
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Virtualisation cutting a path for cloud adoption
According to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Server Virtualisation Tracker, 19.4% of all new servers shipped in the Q4 of 2010 were virtualised, up from 18.4% in Q4 2009. End-user spending on virtualised servers increased 23.3% in 4Q10. The company says that this is paving the way for cloud adoption, describing virtualisation as ‘a critical evolutionary step in the journey to the private cloud’.
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Power to I – the power of a connected enterprise or individual
Today I set out the simple objective to get from point A to point B and back whilst meeting with a customer and upgrading some hardware.
Sounds simple and by all accounts it should have been.
So what really happened; well I arrived at the train station to find my train had left early, yes, early. You literally couldn’t make it up, so out comes the smartphone and two minutes later I’ve found an alternative route and I’m on the way to the customer thankfully still on time.
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Foggy Clouds
Ever wanted a completely clear understanding as to what this Cloud business is about? Yes? Me too…
Unfortunately you’re unlikely to find the answer here, fear not this isn’t a self-depreciating view of the Cloud that could perhaps be perceived as threatening to the Distribution and Reseller industry in the I.T Channel, no this is my own view as to what the Fog, sorry Cloud, means to me as an individual.
