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Potential customers for utility computing are wary of sharing information technology resources and worry about the financial viability of service providers, research firm IDC said Thursday.
Working closely with systems integrators, which provide the actual software expertise, Genuity wants to position Black Rocket as the platform of choice for enterprise-level application services.
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