Recent Articles
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SDN Will Transform the Delivery of IT Services
When it comes to IT these days most organizations are trying to become more agile. The problem they face in attaining that agility is that while a virtual machine can be provisioned in minutes, it still takes weeks to provision the associated subnets and VLAN resources. To solve that problem, IT vendors are pouring millions…
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Channel News Briefs: Week of Oct. 19
Avnet Distributes Lenovo Enterprise Products Avnet Technology Solutions is now an authorized global distributor of Lenovo enterprise products. Under the agreement, Avnet is distributing Lenovo’s System x (x86) servers and related solutions, following the transition of IBM’s System x server business to Lenovo effective Oct. 1. Lenovo products include System x, BladeCenter and Flex System…
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Confidence in IT Security Services Lags
Cloud apps IT Organizations Need Management Help More than 80% experienced outages as a result of out-of-process changes. Nearly two-thirds of respondents report that manual processes limit security visibility and poor change-management practices are the biggest network security challenges. Data Centers Running More Apps Than Ever One in five said they have more than 500…
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Channel News Briefs: Week of Sept 21
Avnet Unveils New Converged Infrastructure Offering Avnet Technology Solutions has introduced its next generation of converged infrastructure offerings powered by the 3rd Generation Intel Core Processors called Ivy Bridge. These new offerings, featuring SAP HANA, Cisco data center technology and industry-leading storage, allow companies to store, process and analyze large data sets in real time. The converged infrastructure…
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Continued Growth Is In Store for Managed Print Services
Managed Print Services The Print Office Environment At least 98% of end users report needing to print at least once per quarter, with 22% saying their print volumes are very high, 33% reporting they have moderately high volumes, 34% reporting mid-level volumes and 11% saying they have low volumes. Can’t Get Print Satisfaction 75% of…
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RackWare Brings Disaster Recovery to the Cloud
RackWare aims to address enterprise disaster recovery pain points—such as cost, flexibility and automation—with a new cloud-based DR offering that delivers server protection and failover at a lower cost than a fully replicated data center. RackWare has sold its offerings primarily through direct sales as well as cloud service and managed service providers that either…
