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The Cloud: An Alien Technology Redefines Data Centers
By Mike L. Chase Much of the technology that powers the cloud is derived from the intellectual property of the cloud service providers themselves or an emerging market that caters to only them. It is an alien level of technology that much like master magicians is hoarded as much as it is sought after. While…
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Cisco Overhauls Its Certification, Training Programs
Driven by accelerating technology transitions and evolving job roles, Cisco has revised its Certified Network Professional (CCNP) Routing and Switching certification. The IT giant also updated courses for the Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise (UCCE) Training, and added several network programmability specialist certifications. The new or enhanced courses are designed to help IT professionals at…
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Stratus Technologies Beefs Up Its Partner Program
Stratus Technologies launched a new global partner program designed to give channel partners greater flexibility and tools to meet the requirements of their business models. The program offers incentives, a range of certification and accreditation options, and margin opportunities to sell Stratus’ products for “always-on” availability across a variety of industry sectors, the company said.…
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New Mobile App Development Opportunities Emerge for Channel
While mobile computing has been on the rise for several years now, it’s only recently that solution providers in the channel have seen the emergence of mobile application development platforms (MADPs) that they could actually build a practice around. On one hand, traditional enterprise IT stalwarts such as Oracle, IBM and SAP have been working…
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10 Fast Facts About Arrow’s Cloud Services
10 Fast Facts About Arrow’s Cloud Services Cloud-Selling Platform Arrow brings its ArrowSphere cloud service brokerage and aggregation platform to North America in 2013. Services include white-label Web stores to help drive cloud adoption, along with services around building and scaling cloud practices. Supporting a Web-Scale Infrastructure Approach Arrow signed an agreement to sell the…
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Channel News Briefs: Week of July 28
Continuity Software Unveils New Channel Partner Program Continuity Software, a provider of service availability risk management offerings, has launched its global AvailabilityGuard Channel Partner Program, which is open to new channel partners around the globe, enabling them to offer the AvailabilityGuard software suite to customers in their respective markets. This offering provides high availability (HA) and disaster…
