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The Microsoft recipe for hosting success

Posted by Martin Banks in Florida in Infrastructure on Wed, 24/02/2010 - 16:15

Microsoft’s General Manager of worldwide software and services for the communications sector, John Zanni, got the chance at the Parallels Summit in Miami to set out some straight forward rules for hosting service providers looking to exploit the burgeoning small business sector.

The figures show this to be a significant opportunity, as Zanni pointed out. “Gartner says SMBs make up 95% or more of the businesses in any country,” he said, “while Forester Research suggests that 50% of the SMBs are now targets for Cloud services.”

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