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A tech advisory firm highlights the importance of focusing on application behavior and usage when weighing a cloud-migration decision, rather than the workloads that would run in the cloud. But price should not be the chief consideration, Information Services Group warns. (From ITBestOfBreed.com)

As technology becomes more pervasive throughout your typical business, does the chief information officer still play a role in IT purchasing decisions? The answer appears to be “yes,” which means you may be courting peril if you try to do an end run around the CIO. (From ITBestOfBreed.com)

The latest version of the open-source Platform-as-a-Service, released earlier this week, adds features to simplify agile software development, including Spring Cloud Services, a collaboration of Pivotal and Netflix.

Avnet unveils a cloud marketplace marked by its branded storefronts, MSP- and ISV-focused initiatives, and support of both consumption- and subscription-based models.

IBM has acquired cloud-based software provider Gravitant in hopes of creating a go-to enterprise cloud brokerage platform.

The DevOps pioneer also introduces a consulting practice to evangelize cultural change, but still prefers to work with systems integrator partners in selling its solution.

This month's Amazon Web Services re:Invent conference was an opportunity for storage vendors to highlight new and better ways to take data to and from AWS.

Many solution providers strive to join Microsoft’s Cloud Solution Provider program, but getting it to take the plunge isn’t so easy. Here’s one Microsoft partner’s take on how to win over the vendor. (From ITBestOfBreed.com)

Hewlett Packard Enterprise on Wednesday said its new HP Helion OpenStack 2.0 enterprise-grade, open-source-based cloud platform is now available. Here is a look at the top six things partners need to know about HP Helion OpenStack 2.0.