Place Your Bets: The Cloud Business Window Is Closing
April 9, 2014
Grazed from CRN. Author: Steven Burke.
It’s a sudden death overtime for any and all solution providers that have not made a big cloud computing bet. All you need to do to see that time is running out is look at some of the major moves executed by solution providers and vendors anxious to up their cloud solutions game. No matter how you cut it, customer adoption of the cloud is happening at a faster pace than anyone anticipated, and it has all comers scrambling to play catch-up in what is sure to be an era of heightened channel conflict.
On the vendor front, Cisco Systems just scored a triple whammy at its Partner Summit with its own public cloud offering, the elimination of the Silver designation, and the requirement that Gold status partners invest more heavily in Cisco Powered Cloud and managed services offerings…
On the solution provider front, two longtime industry executives have proven that they’re not content to sit on the cloud sidelines. Computex CEO Sam Haffar, who co-founded the company 26 years ago and built it into a CRN Solution Provider 500 power alongside his brother Jason, recently acquired Houston-based Cisco Gold Master MSP ENETsolutions. The deal gives Computex, also based in Houston, an elite ENETsolutions technical team providing a wide range of 24/7 recurring-revenue-based services from a multimillion-dollar, state-of-the art network operations center and data center in Houston…
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