Open Source vendor grows channel by 20 percent, sees 500 percent increase in partner technical certifications

Open Source vendor grows channel by 20 percent, sees 500 percent increase in partner technical certifications
Seemingly no stopping Amazon, Microsoft, IBM and Google says Synergy Research Group
Almost 3,000 partners hear what they want to hear as virtualisation god heads for the clouds
VMware services will be available on AWS cloud, providing a tight hybrid cloud solution said the new partners
Big Blue moves to step on new hybrid cloud romance between Amazon Web Services and VMware
Amazon Web Services is no longer the 'mortal enemy' in VMware’s eyes
BT’s Cloud Connect service used to deliver high performance connectivity via Amazon Web Services
Larry Ellison makes huge claims as Oracle takes aim at AWS with 'faster, cheaper' infrastructure
Another UK cloud specialist bought by the yanks, who's next with the help of a weak pound?
Deutsche Telekom goes live with Huawei-built Open TelekomCloud and digs at ‘American competitors’ on Amazon cloud’s tenth birthday
Flash storage and ONTAP combo improves operations for the HR giant
Bashton is an AWS cloud specialist and counts Liverpool Football Club amongst its customers
Analyst Synergy says AWS has almost a third of the market
Azure drops Dv2 VM costs by up to 17 percent
AWS still leads the market with its lower pricing and feature set but others are catching up and market pricing is now 'stabilising'
Public IaaS/PaaS services had the highest growth at 51 percent, followed by private and hybrid cloud infrastructure services
AWS recently announced that it was building data centres to serve the on-shore data needs of UK customers
CMM tool ensures AWS EC2 servers only work when a company's users do
Closer proximity of data centres is good news for UK MSPs in the channel
AWS also reduces some data storage prices
Customers in nine of AWS’ global regions will be able to use Splunk to support IT operations, application delivery, security and compliance
CommVault adds Simpana support for automated cloud data management on Azure and AWS
New programmes and competencies introduced as worldwide network reaches 8,000 partners
Undercutting Amazon Web Services by 65 percent is the aim and the claim
CloudStack, OpenStack, Xen and KVM not provoking mass interest for end-users, Opsview finds
Microsoft's promise to match prices with Amazon could spark a war
Amazon is planning to wipe out the traditional suppliers of cloud services in the UK in a price war which will lower the cost of the cloud for many companies.
Retailer giant's Android app purchasing platform to cross the pond after US success
Tape under threat, but channel could benefit from shift to cloud