Topic: Cloud - Page 189

Speakers at the fourth and final SMB TechFest of the year last week made clear that for all the talk these days about emerging markets like the Internet of Things, there are still plenty of opportunities and challenges ahead for the channel in cloud computing.

The company’s new SDX Series of programmable network elements is the final component of a platform designed to supply service providers with real-time configuration capabilities typically found in data centers.

Available to resellers in the U.S. and Europe, the new tools provide real-time service consumption data, as well as automatic alerts when spending exceeds pre-set limits.

Newport, R.I., was the final stop on this year’s ASCII Success Summit in North America, where solution providers gathered for two days of business and technology sessions and peer networking.

Tech Data Corp.’s three-day event for partners features business and technology sessions, plus opportunities for networking.

WatchGuard Wi-Fi Cloud connects and protects SMBs with fully automated wireless threat prevention as well as interactive engagement and analytics features.

With the company’s fully managed, white-labeled private cloud, companies receive a single-tenant enterprise-grade deployment on Intermedia’s infrastructure or on AWS.

Users can now backup and restore entire SharePoint sites or individual files within those sites.

The new self-serve portal lets resellers earn monthly annuities on a menu of cloud-based solutions including Microsoft Office 365.

The click-to-provision hosted services vendor joins a select group of companies authorized to sell Office 365 to members of Microsoft’s Cloud Solution Provider program.