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CIOs should be kept awake at night by growing the top line

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A recent survey has revealed that CIOs are twice as likely to focus on delivering IT services to their organisation as on innovation and moving the business forward. According to Managed Services Provider Claranet, outsourcing the responsibility of managing infrastructure to a third party can free up the time of CIOs and shift their mindset away from one of keeping the lights on towards one of delivering value to the business and growing the top line.

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Extreme Networks, Inc. says that its comprehensive wired and wireless software defined networking (SDN) solution has completed qualification with Microsoft Lync, a market leading unified communications platform. Through its management software and Purview network and application visibility solution, Extreme Networks enables simple, fast and smart deployments of Microsoft Lync for automated Quality of Service (QoS) and comprehensive analytics across wired and wireless infrastructures.

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Proact will be active in Germany as of 1 October this year. The launch will initially take place as a “greenfield”, with extensive skilled staff in sales and technology being taken on in Düsseldorf and Frankfurt.

The Managed Services channel at decision point

The differences between traditional reselling and the provision of managed services are now so acute that many firms will have to decide which model to back, the Managed Services and Hosting Summit 2014 in London heard on 25 September.

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By Paul Vian, Business Development Director at Internap.

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