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By Doug Barney

Doug Barney has been a technology journalist for nearly 30 years. Doug was the founding editor of Redmond Magazine, Redmond Channel Partner, Redmond Developer News and Virtualization Review, and served as Editorial Director for Visual Studio magazine. Doug also served as Executive Editor of Network World, Editor in Chief of AmigaWorld, and Editor in Chief of Network Computing. Barney also reported for ComputerWorld and InfoWorld. Doug has been a frequent guest on CNN, CNNfn, NECN, and NPR commenting on PC and networking technologies.
 

Latest Articles
DataDirect Rides High on HPC, Storage 02/10/2014
Enterprise File Sync Hopes to Drop Dropbox 02/05/2014
ePlus Moves MSP Business Forward 02/05/2014
AccelOps Partner Push Hits MSSP MainNerve 01/24/2014
San Fran Startups Given Free Managed Services 01/23/2014
The ASCII Group: Thirty Years of Helping Partners 01/23/2014
LogMeIn: You Don't Get What You Don't Pay For 01/23/2014
Virtual Container Tech Boosted by $15 Million Round 01/22/2014
IT Biz Poised for Moderate Growth this Year 01/22/2014
VMware Bulls Way into MDM Mart with $1.17 Billion AirWatch Buy 01/22/2014
MSP Netsolus Taps Egenera to Build Out Cloud 01/22/2014
Wheeling & Dealings: Telstra Improves O2 Uptake with $60 million Cloud Buy 01/20/2014
Wheelings & Dealings: Aastra Buys Chunk of European Cloud 01/20/2014
Number 3 Web Hoster Has Rocking 2013 01/20/2014
WHOA.com Accelerates Channel Push for Secure Cloud 01/17/2014
NetGain Does its Part for Economy 01/17/2014
AVG Gives MSPs More CloudCare 01/17/2014
Virtual Networking Catapulted into the Data Center 01/16/2014
Virtacore Wants You as Partner in Hot IaaS Market 01/16/2014
Performance is the Number One Cloud Criteria, Internap Says 01/16/2014
Dimension Data Wins Workplace Award 01/15/2014
Red Hat Partners Offer 'Try Before They Buy' AWS Service 01/15/2014
Riverbed Pushes Location-independent Managed Services 01/14/2014
Dropbox Drops the Ball, Service Down for Three Days 01/14/2014
Kaseya Comes to MSP Rescue 01/13/2014
Wheelings & Dealings: NTT Swallows Virtela 01/10/2014
EnGenius Thinks Up New Managed Wireless Line 01/10/2014
Don't Fear Replacing IT with MSP, Survey Says 01/09/2014
Wheelings & Dealings: XIOLINK Wrapping up Cosentry Deal 01/09/2014
Wheelings & Dealings: DMI Snags Mobile Management Deal with Samsung 01/09/2014
Wheelings & Dealings: Persistent Systems Finally Snags Dell Deal 01/08/2014
Wheelings & Dealings: Egnyte Snags Cash and Partner 01/08/2014
Datalink Migrates Huge Data Center to CoLo in one Swift Move 01/08/2014
OpenStack Gains Efficiency Through IBM Scheduler 01/08/2014
Wheelings & Dealings: Otelco Snags Maine Web Hoster 01/07/2014
Comings and Goings: SageNet Reshuffles after Spacenet Buy 01/07/2014
Peak 10 Touts Compliance 01/06/2014
MSP Explains Why You Need An MSP 01/03/2014
Cloud Providers Scurry for Security 01/03/2014
10 Top Cloud Tips 01/03/2014
VMware Backup Services All the Rage 01/02/2014
Specialty Services Aimed at Specialty Retailers 01/02/2014
Awesome Cloud Services Aims at MSPs in 2014 01/02/2014
Mobile on the Move in 5 Ways, BoxTone Predicts 01/02/2014
Risk Management Has New SaaS Option 12/26/2013
Zetta.net Tells MSPs Seven Things Not To Do 12/26/2013
Cisco Expands International MSP Presence 12/26/2013
A Managed Services Sales and Marketing Primer 12/25/2013
Wheelings & Dealings: ConnectWise Smartens Up to File Share Partner 12/24/2013
Service Desk Market Welcomes GFI MAX 12/23/2013
Your New IaaS Provider May Be an MSP 12/23/2013
iTrinegy Pitches IT Transformation 12/13/2013
Backup Pricing May Never be the Same 12/13/2013
Vormetric Offers Cloud Security to Partners 12/13/2013
Big Blue Patents Big Mobile Cloud Protection 12/13/2013
File Store and Sync Firm Egnyte Scores $29.5 Million Round 12/12/2013
Total Defense Launches MSP Partner Program 12/12/2013
Cloud Group Tackles Information-as-a-Service 12/12/2013
ExaGrid Claims Patent Edge in Backup War 12/12/2013
dinCloud Puts Arrow Electronics Deal in Quiver 12/11/2013
Cosentry Brings Data Disaster Relief to Midwest 12/11/2013
EarthLink Introduces Flexible Enterprise Cloud 12/11/2013
QTS Continues MSP Surge 12/11/2013
ServiceNow Boosts IT Automation, Operations Management 12/11/2013
Best Places to Work in NYC Recognizes Telx 12/10/2013
The Future of the Cloud is Now 12/10/2013
ManageEngine Revs Up IT Social Networking 12/10/2013
NTT Raises the Roof on RaaS 12/10/2013
ThreatTrack Helps Channel Beat Back Advanced Persistent Threats 12/06/2013
Analytics Service Provider Touts Partners 12/05/2013
Why Can't Online Backup Services Stay in Business? 12/05/2013
Cloud Comes to Small Bank Rescue 12/05/2013
Sanitize Cloud Files for Free 12/04/2013
Rogue SaaS Poses Security Nightmare 12/04/2013
Industry Alliance Aims at Cloud Maturity 12/03/2013
Mimecast Not Silent About New MSP Program 12/03/2013
Cloud Explodes as IaaS Leads Charge 12/03/2013
GFI's IASO Backup Tackles Disaster Recovery, VMs, ConnectWise Ties 11/29/2013
MSPs Must Move Off Break-Fix to Prosper 11/28/2013
independenceIT President Talks DaaS, Growth Plan 11/27/2013
independenceIT Retools in Effort to Boost DaaS Footprint 11/27/2013
Nasuni Uses Cloud to Drive Massive Storage Consolidation 11/26/2013
Statêra Taps into Exoprise Monitoring 11/25/2013
Cloud Backup Revamp Embraces Mobile, Welcomes Partners 11/25/2013
SaaS or Security? How About Both? 11/25/2013
Managed Staffing Moves to Maine 11/21/2013
Backup Vendor Blends in File Share and Sync 11/21/2013
SMBs' Whole Businesses Threatened by Lousy Backup 11/21/2013
independenceIT Has New Cash to Fuel DaaS Engine 11/20/2013
Mobility Management Secures Another Entrant 11/20/2013
Carbonite Puts End to Throttling Nightmare 11/20/2013
HP Public Cloud has Catalog to Guide Choice and Deployment 11/20/2013
Mobile Explosion a Headache for IT and MSPs Alike 11/20/2013
TriCore Tries Hand at IaaS 11/19/2013
Cloud Broker Adds Management, Inks Exclusive with AWS 11/19/2013
Education Market Ripe for MSP Picking 11/19/2013
The New Age of Wireless is Completely Managed, WiFi Partners Say 11/18/2013
Amazon re:Invents Itself with Desktop, Streaming Services 11/15/2013
N-able Gains StorageCraft Hooks 11/15/2013
Dell SecureWorks Locks Down Virtual, Physical and Cloud Servers 11/15/2013