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Takeaways from Microsoft’s 2013 Worldwide Partner Conference

Takeaways from Microsoft’s 2013 Worldwide Partner Conference

The latest Worldwide Partner Conference hosted by Microsoft was held between July 7th and 11th in Houston, Texas. There was an amazing turnout and cloud computing was all of the buzz was once again, but this time the cloud buzz was fully Microsoft focused around Azure and the Cloud OS (Windows Server, System Center and Azure). Many people are aware… read more >>
Maintenance Notice: Cluster Node Software Upgrades

Maintenance Notice: Cluster Node Software Upgrades

When: August 15th and 16th 2013 Purpose: Cluster Node Software Upgrades Expected Impact & Downtime: None Thank you for your continued business and partnership with Awesome Cloud Services! In order to continue delivering the best possible service, our engineering teams will be performing cluster node software upgrades throughout the day on August 15th and 16th. The upgrades will include routine… read more >>
Private Clouds and Cloud Resellers

Private Clouds and Cloud Resellers

This is the final blog post dedicated to the ‘Big 5′ Initiatives that Awesome Cloud is rolling out in 2013. This blog post focuses on enabling Channel Partners to offer private cloud deployments as part of their managed services business. Many of our Channel Partners have expressed an interest in delivering dedicated (private) cloud environments to their clients in 2013.… read more >>
Cloud Services Pricing for Resellers

Cloud Services Pricing for Resellers

This is the fourth of five blog posts dedicated to the ‘Big 5' Initiatives that Awesome Cloud is rolling out in 2013. This blog post focuses on Channel Partner pricing in 2013. If you’re already bracing for bad news, relax. Awesome Cloud’s pricing structure is not changing.
 The decision to maintain Awesome Cloud’s pricing structure came as a result of… read more >>
Simplifying Cloud Workload Deployments

Simplifying Cloud Workload Deployments

This is the third of five blog posts dedicated to the ‘Big 5' Initiatives that Awesome Cloud is rolling out in 2013. This blog post focuses on the tools that Awesome Cloud is leveraging to improve cloud workload deployments for our Channel Partners, including Windows Server 2012, Hyper-V, and System Center 2012. Our focus on leveraging new tools from Microsoft… read more >>
Online Portal / Control Panel for Channel Partners

Online Portal / Control Panel for Channel Partners

As we continue through 2013, improving your experience with the Awesome Cloud platform remains our highest priority. A survey of our Channel Partners revealed that one of their top 2012 requests was an integrated Online Portal / Control Panel designed to handle everyday tasks. At the beginning of 2013 we began developing an Online Portal that our Channel Partners can… read more >>
Unified Threat Management (UTM) for Channel Partners

Unified Threat Management (UTM) for Channel Partners

This is the second of five blog posts dedicated to the ‘Big 5' Initiatives AwesomeCloud that is rolling out in 2013. This blog post focuses on the FortiGate Unified Threat Management (UTM) solution developed by Fortinet, which will be available to our Channel Partners during Q4 2013. We opted to deploy UTM as a result of the feedback we have… read more >>
AwesomeCloud’s 2013 Roadmap

AwesomeCloud’s 2013 Roadmap

Today, businesses that offer cloud services are often delivered a set of services from multiple vendors and are expected to piece them together into solutions for their clients. They’re provided with the raw building blocks without any guidance to help build a complete solution. Worse, businesses often find that the resources they've been provided are not designed to meet their… read more >>