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RALEIGH, NC, May 1, 2009 – Hosted Solutions (www.hostedsolutions.com), the East Coast’s premier provider of IT infrastructure as a service (IaaS), today announced that Christopher “Kip” Turco, the company’s Chief Operating Officer, will serve as keynote speaker and moderator at two cloud computing conferences to be held this month in Charlotte and Raleigh. The Exchange Executive Edge series, hosted by WRAL/LocalTechWire.com and sponsored by the SaaS User Group, will feature cloud computing experts from companies such as Hosted Solutions, Salesforce.com, VMware, EMC, Sun Microsystems and more.  In addition to his speech, Turco will moderate a panel that will feature specific advice on what companies need to know in order to move toward a cloud-based environment, whether to host specific applications such as storage or security, or their overall IT infrastructure. Clo... (more)

Hosted Solutions Executives to Speak at SaaS Conference

Hosted Solutions (www.hostedsolutions.com), the East Coast’s premier provider of IT infrastructure as a service (IaaS), today announced that two of its top executives will be featured speakers at a regional conference on Software as a Service (SaaS). The conference will be conducted by UNC Charlotte’s College of Computing and Informatics, as the first in its new “Emerging Issues in Information Technology” seminar series.  It is designed to help buyers better understand the security, legal, performance and technical issues associated with the adoption of this technology. The se... (more)

ROBOBAK Completes MSPAlliance Vendor Accreditation Program

ROBOBAK has announced that it has received accreditation under the MSPAlliance's (MSPA) Vendor Accreditation Program (VAP). VAP is specifically designed by managed service providers (MSPs) as a benchmark for vendors who sell to the MSP community. Vendors who bear the VAP seal have shown they abide by the highest principles of quality in areas such as financial stability, positive channel practices, product research and development, and MSP customer satisfaction. VAP was created using a wide base of criteria considered as critical by MSPs when selecting a vendor. Criteria examine... (more)

National Center for Genome Resources Chooses Kognitio WX2

Kognitio has announced that the National Center for Genome Resources (NCGR) has deployed Kognitio's WX2 purpose-built database to handle the analytical processing of multiple terabytes of research data in order to improve human health and crop improvement through genome sequencing and analysis. NCGR researchers who chose WX2 said they were impressed by Kognitio's recognition of and focus on the growing importance of bioinformatics, and the company's desire to play a leading role in enabling the next generation of genomic investigation. The NCGR team has already discovered the adv... (more)

ROBOBAK Announces Its 2009 Sponsorship of MSP Partners

ROBOBAK, the leader in agentless data protection software designed for remote and branch offices, today announced its 2009 silver sponsorship of MSP Partners, an alliance established by Intel Corporation, Cisco, Ingram Micro Inc., LPI Level Platforms Inc., Microsoft® Corporation and other leading IT manufacturers to provide solution providers with a comprehensive and collaborative online education source dedicated to managed services. “We are pleased to have ROBOBAK join as a 2009 sponsor of MSP Partners,” said Jim Hamilton, MSP Partners’ Executive Director. “Increasingly, we fin... (more)