Recent Articles
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Roambi Launches N.A. Partner Program, Debuts Cloud
Roambi has launched its North America Roambi Partner Program, which will enable solution and referral partners to offer their customers a new cloud platform that takes advantage of the increasing business use of smartphones and tablets. Roambi Business, the new cloud platform, gives mobile device users access to a data visualization tool that leverages their…
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Dropbox.com Launches Channel Network
When it comes to compliance and security issues, the specter of end users routinely violating corporate polices when using cloud services such as Dropbox.com has been a boon to solution providers that specialize in these areas. Now, however, instead of being the source of the problem, Dropbox.com wants to work with channel partners to become…
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Managed Services Thrive in the Cloud Era
By Michael Vizard Conventional wisdom held that cloud computing would lead to a centralization of IT resources in a way that would ultimately lead to the demise of managed services. Instead, we’ve seen an explosion in complexity that is about to create more demand for managed services than ever before. The major issue customers are…
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Making Sense of IT Consumerization’s Nuances
Types of Apps Accessed in Last 12 Months Without IT Intervention These numbers would suggest that the consumerization of IT is not as rampant as thought. Cloud Storage Applications: 14%, Social Media Applications: 13%, Office Applications: 11%, Marketing Automation Software: 11%, Security Applications: 10%, Communications Software: 9%, Other: 37%, None of the Above: 52%
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ISVs Explore New Routes to Market
Once upon a time, the only route to market for software vendors was to deploy their applications on either servers or appliances. But with the arrival of the software-as-a-service phenomenon in the cloud, the number of routes to market for software vendors suddenly exploded, and with that, the relationship between independent software vendors (ISVs) and…
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Software Approach, Revamped Data Center Are Key for Channel
When it comes to IT infrastructure in the data center, it hasn’t always been the best of times for the channel lately. Most of the activity in the data center has focused on consolidation, which doesn’t create a lot of upgrade opportunities because it targets leveraging technologies such as virtualization to increase utilization rates. But…
