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EMC Corp. has acquired Pivotal Labs, a Big Data specialist that offers software development services. The acquisition is one of two recent announcements from EMC that involve Big Data…

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The managed security services provider StillSecure has partnered witht PeakColo, an enterprise-level cloud services provider, to offer PeakColo customers managed security services in their own cloud environments.

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As the annual “March Madness” men’s collegiate basketball tournament beckons, it is worth taking a moment to consider how the teachings of one late UCLA basketball coach can be applied to successfully providing managed services to small and mid-sized businesses. John Wooden, who won 10 national championships and launched the careers of NBA legends Bill Walton and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, is widely regarded as a leadership expert whose winning methods resonate far beyond the basketball court.

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In what is great news for Apple and also worthy of notice by the MSP community, 34 percent of SMBs used iPads in 2011, four times the 9 percent SMB iPad usage rate of 2010. According to a national study by The Business Journals, this makes the iPad the fastest- growing technology in the SMB market.

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ViaWest, the cloud and managed services provider, has promoted Jason Carolan (pictured) into the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) post. In the newly-created role, Carolan will be responsible for developing a strategic direction for all of the MSP’s products and technology initiatives.

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Need further proof that the cloud is everywhere? It even has a place on the Formula One racing circuit. That’s right. Internap Network Services, the IT infrastructure services provider, has inked a deal with Sahara Force India, an upstart Formula One racing team, that makes the IT provider the official supplier of web hosting and content delivery network services for the team’s official website. The deal comes on the heals of Internap’s purchase of Voxel Holdings, a cloud services provider (CSP), for roughly $30 million.

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Cloud-based help desk software provider Zendesk has announced a new Search Analytics feature designed to help organizations get insights into customers who prefer using self-service content.

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Rackspace has recently added to its leadership team in order to bring aboard more open source expertise. The hosting and cloud  services provider has recently brought aboard Andrew Shafer [pictured], co-founder of Puppet Labs and former VP of Engineering at CloudScaling, to help its Cloud Builders and OpenStack teams develop products and bring them to market more quickly.

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nScaled, which brands itself as a Recovery-as-a-Service (RaaS) provider for the SMB market, has developed a new Free Cloud Recovery Account service to enable VMware users to discover new tools for recovery, backup and archiving. nScaled has been working closely with VMware since early 2010.

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StillSecure, the managed network security provider, has signed an agreement with Lokahi Solutions, a cloud infrastructure and hosting provider for both SMBs and enterprise companies. Here’s a closer look at how StillSecure plans to help its newest partner strengthen its cloud offering.

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I recently drove to a friend’s house to drop off a copy of a file I had promised him long ago. One problem: I left my USB drive at home. That’s where my cloud story begins…

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The wireless enterprise networking solution provider Meru Networks has developed two new solutions that the company says will help enterprise IT departments better manage the influx of mobile devices to corporate networks as a result of the exploding bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend.

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Zyrion Inc., the cloud and IT monitoring software company, has developed the new Zyrion Predictive Analytics Module designed to help IT service providers identify and isolate network performance problems within cloud infrastructures.

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The IT service management sector is red hot with competition these days. It seems as though the IT service management software provider ManageEngine either releases or upgrades a security product every day. Then BMC Software shook the industry up last month by acquiring Numara Software, a SaaS provider. And now more news from BMC, as the IT management software provider has made public its managed services deal with Lenovo, the world’s second largest personal computer vendor. Here’s the update.

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Desktone, the desktop as a service (DaaS) provider, has partnered with tuCloud, a managed and hosted virtual desktop provider, to offer virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) in cloud environments.

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The news continues to roll in from ManageEngine, the IT management software provider that has made a flurry of solution development announcements around the World Mobile Congress event. The latest news involved an upgrade to Password Manager Pro — the software provider’s privileged password management solution. We’ll get into the details in a minute, but first a little background on the solution itself.

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Azaleos, an MSP with a particular expertise in Microsoft applications, is continuing to focus on developing cloud solutions that easily integrate with Microsoft SharePoint. The managed services provider’s latest development? Azaleos Managed Enterprise Search — a new addition to the company’s Managed SharePoint Services portfolio that lets the company’s enterprise business customers more easily deploy Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 within their own business networks.

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CTERA Networks, the international storage solution vendor for value-added resellers and managed services providers, has honed in on the European storage market and locked-up a deal with Swisscom IT Services, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Swisscom AG, one of the largest telecom providers in all of Europe. On the day the deal became official I chatted with CTERA Networks VP of Marketing Rani Osnat (pictured) to find out more details about the deal and about CTERA’s 2012 goals.

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GreenPages, the cloud computing and virtualization consulting company, today expanded its consulting team by acquiring LogicsOne. LogicsOne is a virtualization, storage and cloud consulting and management provider that could help GreenPages to strengthen its brand in the Southeastern United States. GreenPages already has physical offices in New York City and Boston. LogicsOne will bring aboard a new Atlanta office under the Green Pages umbrella.

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Still more news to bring you from ManageEngine, the IT management software provider that recently added mobile device management (MDM) software to its Desktop Central solution for service providers, among a host of other recent solution developments. This time, ManageEngine has added Amazon S3 data backup and recovery services to its MSP Center Plus network monitoring solution for managed services providers.

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Alert Logic, the Security-as-a-Service provider for cloud environments, has acquired Armorlogic, a web application security solutions provider. According to Alert Logic, the deal means that all of its business customers will now have a full managed security solution for Web-facing applications.

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Ingram Micro, the IT distributor for managed services providers and business end-users, has expanded its cloud solutions portfolio with two new solutions aimed at offering unified communications (UC) as a service.

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More news to bring you on the mobile device management (MDM) front, one of the most in-demand managed services of 2012. This time it’s StillSecure, the managed network security provider, that’s getting into the MDM game.

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