CRN Cloud News

Integrated appliances, which combine the power and convenience of local data protection with the scalability and reliability of the cloud, may be a better alternative than stand-alone data protection software.

In the third-quarter earnings call, CEO Marc Benioff shared details of Salesforce's relationships with all three hyper-scale cloud providers -- AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google.

Verizon's State of the Enterprise Cloud Market report found that cloud has become just another part of the enterprise IT strategy, but organizations are still seeking cloud managed services.

While the popular SaaS collaboration tools weren't much of a channel play and the split was expected, there could still be reverberations through the vendor's channel.

In interviews with CRN, executives with several solution providers who will address next month’s NexGen Cloud Conference talk about how partners can win in the cloud market over the upcoming months.

The vendor-agnostic framework developed by a coalition of vendors, end users and channel partners is an attempt to define security architecture for modern, cloud environments.

As the demand for cloud storage continues to surge, solution providers are finding a variety of approaches to using the cloud that leverage skills they honed through years of SMB and enterprise storage experience.

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)