Newsletter | July 11, 2012

07.11.12 -- How To Sell A Managed Services Offering SMBs Will Love

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How To Sell A Managed Services Offering SMBs Will Love Desktop Virtualization: A Cost And Performance Comparison The Critical Difference Between Cloud Storage & Cloud Backup	Launching Your Online Backup Practice - Tips From The Trenches Solid State Drives: What Every Reseller Needs To Know The Managed Services Sales Imperative

	How To Sell A Managed Services Offering SMBs Will Love By Ronnie Parisella, director of business development, Power Consulting Group By making your core offering more compelling, you'll experience less resistance to a monthly fixed fee contract. *Full article...*

Desktop Virtualization: A Cost And Performance Comparison By Quest Software This white paper presents the result of research comparing the cost and performance of desktop virtualization using the four most well known desktop virtualization products and their preferred hypervisors. *Learn more...*

	The Critical Difference Between Cloud Storage & Cloud Backup By Jamie Brenzel, CEO, KineticD Storing your customers' business critical data in a free or cheap storage cloud is akin to storing important family heirlooms in a bus station locker. *Full article...*

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	Launching Your Online Backup Practice - Tips From The Trenches By Intronis Picking a cloud-based backup tool on which to build a key portion of your business isn't like plucking an antivirus product out of the pile. *Watch video...*

	Solid State Drives: What Every Reseller Needs To Know By John Pearring, sales manager, STORserver Solid state drives are on their way. Resellers need to get ready for this new revenue stream. *Full article...*

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The Managed Services Sales Imperative By Continuum Managed Services, LLC If cash is the lifeblood of every business, sales is the heart that keeps pumping cash through the system. The importance of sales cannot be overstated: A business is empty if no one consumes its products and services, and it takes sales organizations and people to bring products to market. It's that simple. *Learn more...*

	Implementing A Virtualization Solution By Scott Sims, GM, the Americas theater, 2X Software Avoid common VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) pitfalls by asking yourself a few questions prior to the implementation. *Full article...*

News

Panasonic Aligns U.S. Operations To Deliver Technology Solutions

Panasonic System Communications Company of North America, a provider of technology solutions for government, enterprise, and SMB markets recently outlined key elements and organizational changes related to its expanded operation focused on helping its customers to transform information into innovation.
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CloudFlare Launches Business and Enterprise Services

CloudFlare, a web performance and security company, recently announced the availability of CloudFlare Business and CloudFlare Enterprise. The new tiers of service add additional performance and security features designed for businesses and are built on top of CloudFlare's global infrastructure.
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Talari Networks Announces New Aberdeen Research Report on Improving Enterprise Application Performance Across All Locations

Talari Networks, Inc., a provider of network appliances, recently announced the availability of a new Aberdeen Group research report titled, "Boosting Enterprise Application Performance in Distributed Environments," prepared by Jim Rapoza.
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Adaptive Computing Granted Fifteenth Cloud Computing Patent

Adaptive Computing, managers of private cloud and technical computing systems, recently announced that it has been granted its fifteenth cloud computing patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, U.S. Patent No. 8,179,490.
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Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace Now Features dinCloud’s Hosted Virtual Desktop

dinCloud, a cloud transformation company that provides business provisioning of IT infrastructure to the cloud, recently announced its hosted virtual desktop (HVD) is now available to channel partners in the United States via the Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace.
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