Recent Articles
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IBM Partners Using PureSystems to Capture Intellectual Property
One of the problems that solution providers have is that much of their intellectual property is inside the heads of their employees. When those employees leave, they tend to take a fair amount of that expertise with them. Marie Wieck, IBM general manager for WebSphere, says that one of the more interesting use cases that…
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Cisco and NetApp Raise FlexPod Channel Game
Joint ventures are difficult to manage on any level, especially when the nature of the product being offered has a lot of dependencies involved. Solution providers in particular get frustrated having to deal with the same issues over and over again. In that context it’s good to see Cisco and NetApp moving to address some…
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Making the Most of Big Data Opportunities
While there’s a lot of talk these days about moving everything into the cloud, there’s just as much talk about Big Data. What’s ironic about that is that it’s prohibitively expensive to transfer massive amounts of data in and out of the cloud. Because of that a lot of IT organizations are starting to make…
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Channel Starts to Get Comfortable in the Cloud
As it becomes more apparent that cloud service providers are increasingly going to rely on channel partners to take their service to market, the channel as a whole is getting more comfortable with the entire concept. According to Jason Bystrak, sales director for the North American Services Division at Ingram Micro, solution providers attending the…
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Backup and Recovery in the Cloud Equals Change
Now is a time of great change when it comes to backup and recovery. For more years than anyone cares to remember IT organizations mostly dependent on traditional tape backup software, even when using disk-based backup systems. But with the advent of cloud computing things have become a little more complicated. Because of network bandwidth…
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ALM as a Barometer of Customer Maturity
Everyone likes to talk about the divide between IT and the business but there are lots of divides within the IT organization that can trip up the unwary solution provider. One of the most contentious areas in IT right now is anything to do with “DevOps.” As a catch phrase that covers anything to do…