Memo From Appirio: Public Cloud Is A Partner Opportunity

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How can you survive and thrive through the cloud revolution? Appirio Chief Strategic Officer Narinder Singh offered his views on public cloud computing opportunities during the Ingram Micro Cloud Summit today in Scottsdale, Ariz. Here is a live blog covering Singh’s views.

The keynote is especially interesting since so many pundits say VARs, MSPs and cloud consultants should focus on private cloud and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) opportunities. But Appirio offers a healthy reminder that IT projects involving the public cloud represent big opportunities. Here’s more…

Appirio Launches Cloud Social Networking Connector Toolkit

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Cloud integrator Appirio has announced a new Social Enterprise Toolkit designed to help customers connect new applications with existing social networks. In plainer terms, Appirio has released a set of 20-plus tools to help bring its customers closer with Salesforce Chatter, Facebook, Twitter and the rest of the social web while still meeting their specific regulatory or feature needs.

Here are some examples of social media features and integrations the toolkit brings, as per Appirio’s press release...

Appirio ‘Honoring’ the Best of the Worst in the Cloud

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Following in the footsteps of the infamous Razzie awards given to the people responsible for the worst movies of the year, cloud integrator Appirio has invited me to the inaugural Washies: an awards ceremony designed to publicly shame those vendors who claim a solution is “cloud” when it’s really just a fresh coat of paint on an aging legacy solution.

The idea, according to Appirio’s blog entry, is to have a little fun at the expense of those companies who are dead-set on capitalizing on cloud hype without taking the time or effort to really understand what that means. And thus far response from the cloud services channel and other IT pros has already been outstanding, the company noted, with early votes and nominees flooding in...