7 Cloud Must-Reads of the Week, Dec. 6
Every Saturday Talkin' Cloud rounds up the top cloud computing stories of the week for our online community of channel partners. Here's what you might have missed while you were at work.
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ThinkingPhones Raises $56.7M for Cloud-Based Unified Communications Suite
ThinkingPhones announced it has raised a $56.7 million round of financing for its cloud-based unified communications suite.
Technology Crossover Ventures led the Series D round of funding, with participation from existing investor Bessemer Venture Partners. The additional funds bring the company’s total financing to date to $89 million.
2nd Watch Identifies Most Popular AWS Services, Instances
Amazon Web Services technology partner 2nd Watch, a provider of cloud-based management services for AWS instances, has unveiled the first of several quarterly reports to compare the most popular Amazon cloud services and instance sizes amongst its user base.
VMware Strikes Deal With China Telecom for Hybrid Services
VMware is expanding its toehold in the Chinese market. The company has inked a deal with China Telecom to deliver hybrid cloud services to the national market starting in January 2015.
Report: 69 Percent of Companies Want Hybrid Cloud Strategy Next Year
A new Avanade survey of 1,000 global C-level executives revealed that many businesses want to migrate their applications and services to hybrid cloud environments.
Survey researchers said many companies are predicting that more than half of their applications and services will be deployed on the hybrid cloud within an average of three years.
Analyst: HP Split Will Enable More Cloud Focus
One analyst at Technology Business Research believes the forthcoming HP split will have a significant and positive impact on HP Enterprise Services, particularly in the company’s cloud and analytics solutions.
CloudLock Launches Unified Cloud Security Solution, Integrates With Dropbox for Business
CloudLock launched a unified cloud security solution designed to give companies better control of their cloud applications.
The Waltham, Massachusetts-based ISV said the new solution, CloudLock Security Fabric, enables businesses to continuously monitor cloud apps for security issues and detect and respond to security risks such as oversharing and malicious data extraction in real-time.
Office 365, Dropbox Integration: Good for Small Business, Bad for MSPs
A few weeks ago, Microsoft and Dropbox announced integration between Office 365 and Dropbox. This is the final nail in the coffin for service providers who are still making money on companies with 5-10 employees whose requirements are Microsoft Office, Exchange and a file server. It is just a matter of time before small businesses realize that the partnership between Office 365 and Dropbox can give them the functionality they need while dramatically reducing their costs.
Office 365, Dropbox Integration: Good for Small Business, Bad for MSPs
A few weeks ago, Microsoft and Dropbox announced integration between Office 365 and Dropbox. This is the final nail in the coffin for service providers who are still making money on companies with 5-10 employees whose requirements are Microsoft Office, Exchange and a file server. It is just a matter of time before small businesses realize that the partnership between Office 365 and Dropbox can give them the functionality they need while dramatically reducing their costs.
7 Cloud Must-Reads of the Week, December 6.
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