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Tech Data Adds Windows 10 Service to Cloud Program
As part of an effort to give IT service providers more control over the desktop, Tech Data has launched a subscription service for the enterprise edition of Windows 10. The goal of Tech Data’s Windows 10 Enterprise E3 program is to make it simpler for service providers to license a full suite of Microsoft cloud…
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Becoming a Born-in-the-Cloud Provider: A Simple Guide
By Carmen Sorice and Cristina Greysman It’s clear that the cloud has changed how business is conducted. What is perhaps less clear is how it’s reshaping the traditional reseller channel as well as creating a whole new world of “born-in-the-cloud” partners. A Primer for Born-in-the-Cloud Providers IPED Consulting and Research has defined five types of…
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Channel Role: Cloud Pragmatists in IT Services Age
One of the most important key performance indicator ratios for channel partners has always been the product/services income balance. Even more important has been the ratio between the profit generated from the sale of products to the profit from services sold. Since service profitability is more complicated to calculate, many have elected simply to focus…
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Public Cloud’s Coming of Age a Boon to the Channel
Public cloud Public Cloud’s Coming of Age a Boon to the Channel As the use of public cloud services becomes more widespread, reliance on third-party services to manage those clouds is increasing. Public Cloud Use 84% of respondents are using public clouds today. Surprisingly, nearly half (49%) report using the Google Cloud Platform, 48% using…
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Inside the OpenStack Distribution Wars
For some time now, tension has been building among providers of curated distributions of the OpenStack cloud management framework. On one side, there are providers of commercially supported instances of OpenStack such as Mirantis. On the other, are providers of Linux distributions such as Red Hat that are tightly coupling OpenStack and Linux together. At…
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Accelerating Microsoft Cloud Migrations
At this juncture, it’s clear to channel players that Microsoft is anxious to accelerate the rate at which customers are making the transition to the cloud. Yet, what often gets overlooked in terms of making that shift occur is how long it takes to migrate data from an on-premise environment into an instance of Microsoft…
