Or does it open up a new business opportunity? Our previous post on how the value added reseller (VAR) business is intersecting with cloud services focused on why we think now is the time to figure out how you fit into the ecosystem as a VAR. As a follow-up to that post, here are some [...]
Dale Neilly, Radiant’s VP of Sales was invited to present at the ChannelNext conference a couple of weeks ago, followed by a short interview seen below. // The presentation was a quick overview of cloud infrastructure but the theme was to engage the VAR community and identify what their role can be in the cloud [...]
Fukushima and Amazon – two meltdowns that truly raise the question of when is Bigger no longer Better? The underlying problem is that Murphy’s Law reigns supreme. No matter who you are, or how hard you try, things WILL go wrong. If you’re operating at a reasonable scale, the triggering incident is easily manageable and [...]
By now, we all know that Amazon’s cloud computing service suffered an outage last week affecting many of their North American customers. Now that things have returned to normal, this is a great opportunity to step back and look at some of the things many customers have overlooked while jumping on the cloud computing wave [...]
Yesterday, Primus made an announcement that it’ll be offering BEX service over copper. This is a very positive sign having another Internet Service Provider endorsing new technologies such as Ethernet-in-the-First-Mile (EFM), which is already in use in Australia, Europe, and the US, and is a perfect solution for the small- to mid-sized businesses in response to the current inadequate broadband offerings in the Canadian market.
Fellow Canadians over at Enomaly launched SpotCloud last week. They describe SpotCloud as a clearing house for excess cloud computing capacity. On SpotCloud, cloud computing resources are sold anonymously by cloud providers with excess capacity. So, why would anyone buy computing resources without knowing who was providing it? Why would you buy a hotel room [...]
With the recent CRTC decision, Canadian consumers and businesses that are already paying the highest costs for Internet in the developed world will now also be paying inflated usage rates. That translates into poor international competitiveness, poor productivity, reduced investment infrastructure, stifled innovation and consumer choice.
Sending and receiving large attachments from your hosted exchange email server? Sharing files and presentations using cloud based collaboration tools? Storing your customer data (like CRM data) in the cloud? As more businesses move much of their IT infrastructure to the cloud, the idea of location is getting a lot more attention. A recent Forrester [...]
There’s no question that cloud services like virtual servers and email along with cloud applications like Salesforce.com CRM deliver on the promise and value of cloud computing.Get a great service. Get it running quickly. Don’t pay any up front capital costs to get it running. The business value is clear. Cloud computing vendors have made [...]
Radiant + Netapp + VMWare + Cisco. The top cloud computing service in Canada. Netapp just released the case study on Radiant’s AlwaysThere cloud computing platform. It’s posted up on the Netapp/Cisco/VMWare site dedicated to the 3 vendor’s joint solution for cloud computing infrastructure. There’s some great information in there about Radiant cloud services and [...]
