Is Japanese tech giant Fujitsu going to offer Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud platform within its data centers? A Dow Jones Newswires report came out suggesting just that. And yes, Microsoft and Fujitsu confirmed pieces of the story today during the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC10). Here are the details.
Fujitsu And Microsoft Teaming Up In The Cloud
Autotask Conference Preview: 5 Anticipated Discussion Points
Amy Katz and I land in Nashville, Tenn., this Sunday (March 29) for the Autotask Community Live conference. The grapevine tells me roughly 300 IT service providers and managed service providers will converge on Nashville for the conference, plus many of the remote monitoring tool providers will be on hand. Here are five discussion points we’ll be tracking at the event.
SaaS: Service Providers Predict Google Will Beat Microsoft
Five years from now, Google — rather than Microsoft — will dominate the software as a service (SaaS) market, according to 48 percent of managed service providers who participated in MSPmentor’s reader poll for the week ended January 30, 2009. Here’s a closer look at the poll stats — and a surprising snub involving Oracle.
Managed Cloud Services: Build vs. Rent
Should you build your own cloud computing system or simply leverage a third party cloud service? The answer to that question depends on which managed service provider you ask.
Will Microsoft Azure Catch On With MSPs?
Microsoft’s new cloud service — known as Azure — has multiple implications for managed service providers and the IT channel.