Articles by Pete Johnson
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Why Adopt The Hybrid Cloud Recurring Revenue Business Model
11/14/2014
As an MSP (managed services provider) or VAR, you’ve probably run into cloud adoption within your customer accounts and tried to figure out how you can continue to add value in this rapidly growing ecosystem of public, private, and physical clouds. Making margins off of a hardware delivery or keeping hardware up and running is shrinking as the self-service on-demand provisioning promise of the cloud is being realized.
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5 Tips To Adding Value To Hybrid Clouds With Cloud Management Platforms
10/10/2014
The data center world was changed forever by the virtualization revolution – and that change has only accelerated with the cloud computing technology that followed. Over the last 18 months the market has settled on the notion that any sizable organization that has enough workload diversity benefits the most by using both public and private cloud in a hybrid model.