Recent Articles
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What to Do When Apps Become Services
There’s no doubt “the times they are a-changin’” in the channel. Just about everywhere a solution provider looks somebody is trying to turn an application into a service. Google and Microsoft are leading that charge. The former wants to gain share at the expense of the other by getting customers to adopt Google Apps while…
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Getting Started With Big Data in the Channel
The challenge with big data in terms of actually trying to monetize it is that it is as much a concept as it is a set of technologies that companies in the channel can sell. As a result, it takes a lot of patience on the part of solution providers to get customers to the…
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10 Things the Channel Should Know About Microsoft
10 Things the Channel Should Know About Microsoft Nadella Is No Ballmer Don’t expect Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to stay the course his predecessor put Microsoft on. He’s already said in emails to his employees that Microsoft needs to change in drastic ways. Gates Is Back Bill Gates has decided to come back to Microsoft…
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Exablox Launches Program to Drive New Storage Paradigm
Conventional wisdom holds that most of the data small and midsize businesses (SMBs) generate will wind up in the cloud. In reality, storing lots of data in the cloud has limitations from both cost and performance perspectives. Looking for channel partners to help determine when and where on-premise and cloud storage makes sense, Exablox launched…
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Eagle Eye Networks Launches New Channel Program
In today’s world, it’s not surprising that there’s been a significant increase in the use of video surveillance systems. The challenge is that these systems can be difficult to manage and are limited by the amount of video they can store. To address that issue, Eagle Eye Networks created a video surveillance system managed via…
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Moving Communications Services to the Cloud
Delivering communications using the same networks we use to transport data has always held much promise, but making that happen required a lot of expensive gear and proprietary app development work that most customers balked at adopting the technology. But with the rise of the cloud, all that is changing. Vendors such as Cisco and…
