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Cloud Acceleration ‘by the hour’

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Silver Peak Systems says that its cloud-ready WAN optimisation software is now available in hourly increments directly from Amazon Web Services via the AWS Marketplace. Silver Peak’s new utility licensing complements perpetual and annual subscription licensing options to give customers a flexible and cost-effective solution for accelerating data to and from AWS.

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Xtravirt has announced Xtravirt CloudStart™ EXPRESS, a structured 2 week consultancy engagement to rapidly identify the cloud technologies that will benefit enterprise organisations and assist in resolving their business challenges via cloud adoption.

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Vendors of online retail management systems are now rushing headlong to provide omni-channel solutions as mobile devices become a key delivery and consumption tool

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In early June Stanislas de Bentzmann, co-CEO and co-founder of IT consulting group, Devoteam, wrote a blog for the company website. Since then, it has been widely circulated in mainland Europe, where the company makes much of its €500 million-plus revenue. Despite that, he makes some interesting points of direct relevance to the way Cloud Services World sees the exploitation of IT developing. Argue away by all means……..

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Cloud is the future of business, Platforms are the future of the cloud, and partnerships (rather than acquisitions or self-developed products) are the future of platforms. And while partnering with Netsuite was always on the cards, who would have thought Oracle would partner with Microsoft and Salesforce.com? But it has, and it makes you wonder what will be next. Still, it is service consumers that are likely to be the real beneficiaries.