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Whatever as a Service – the only ready reckoner you’ll ever need!

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

tennisI planned to write this post some months back but never got around to it! TheVARGuy’s recent post on Desktops as a Service (DaaS) provided the required impetus!

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’re probably aware of the many ‘as a service’ acronyms floating around – from SaaS (Software as a Service) to BaaS (Backup as a Service – you could say, that’s what we enable our channel partners to do) to Desktone’s recently trademarked DaaS.

Want to get on the aaS bandwagon but don’t know where to start? Here’s a handy primer to help you scintillate … Read the rest

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Google will abandon ‘pure SaaS’ and take the ‘software plus services’ route – courtesy Microsoft

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

So the inevitable is happening. At last, Google seems to be coming around to Microsoft’s software plus services strategy. The news that Google is opening up Google Apps for resellers is the first step in this direction. Pure SaaS sold directly to end customers would only go some distance. There are hundreds of thousands of SMBs out there who prefer to outsource their IT to a local IT Solution provider or a managed service provider (MSP). The only way to reach that segment of the SMB is through these IT solution providers. It was hence inevitable that Google ca… Read the rest

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Posted in Online Backup, Partner Program, Remote Backup, SMB, SP Edition, Uncategorized | No Comments »

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