Recent Articles
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The SaaS Application War Will Escalate in 2017
At the start of the New Year, the one thing that channel partners can count on is that the level of competition between providers of software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications is about to become fiercer by several orders of magnitude. The two big drivers of the competition are going to be Salesforce and Oracle. Salesforce CEO Marc…
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Cloud Security Creates Channel Opportunities
Cloud data Cloud Security Creates Channel Opportunities Cloud security requires a different approach and a new portfolio of technologies, and that offers channel partners the opportunity to act as a guiding hand. Cloud Services Increase The average organization analyzed in the report uses 1,427 cloud services to upload 18.5 TB of data to the cloud,…
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Digital Business Will Increase IT Spending in 2017
Investments in IT have clearly been a major driver of the modern economy. But as solution providers gear up for 2017, the biggest opportunity is not going to be centered around any one technology as much as it will focus on turning visions of digital business transformations into reality. Most organizations have historically employed IT…
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HPE Looks to Expand CSP Ecosystem
The cloud service provider market is evolving into two distinct camps. The first is exemplified by well-known CSPs such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. CSPs that operate at that scale build their own custom infrastructure to keep the cost of operating at massive amounts of scale under control. The rest of the…
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ShoreTel Expands Cloud Partner Opportunities
When it comes to business models in the cloud, there is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all model for solution providers. ShoreTel understands that, so it expanded its channel program in a way that enables partners to install implementations of a cloud-based unified communications platform. Previously, ShoreTel had only an agent model in place, and…
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Taking a Look Inside the AWS Public Cloud
AWS Taking a Look Inside the AWS Public Cloud A report from Sumo Logic provides insight into software usage across the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud. Some of the findings are surprising. Operating System Distribution in the Public Cloud Approximately 82% of the operating system instances deployed on AWS are derivatives of Linux, versus…
