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Synnex Resellers Talk Back on Managed Services
Distributors are working to help businesses build their services business, whether it’s cloud or managed services, but when a solutions provider has already built out their own services practice, how does a managed services suite from distribution affect their business and relationships? Following Synnex’s (www.synnex.com) announcement of its partnership with Level Platforms earlier during the…
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Ingram Micro: Half of VTN Members Selling Cloud
If you haven’t already noticed, the big word in the tech industry this year is "cloud." That was certainly in evidence this week at both the Synnex Varnex community event in Boston and at Ingram Micro’s VTN invitational community event in Chicago. These two distributors laid out cloud plans with an eye to becoming an…
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Synnex Adds Managed Services Suite to Offerings
Although cloud overshadowed all other IT topics at Synnex’s first Varnex community conference of the year, the company also gave solution providers and managed service providers new tools with the launch of suite of managed services through its Technology Solutions Division. The division’s OnDemand IT group is now providing a suite of managed services aimed…
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Dell Research Center Targets Cloud, Storage
(Reuters) – Dell Inc (NASDAQ:DELL) plans to open its first research center in California’s Silicon Valley this year to focus on cloud computing, storage and networking technology, with hopes of hiring directly from the tech-focused region. The world’s No. 2 PC maker said Tuesday that the new site will help it consolidate much of its…
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Goodbye March – Channel Headlines Around the Web
Image by Robert Scoble via Flickr Joe Panettieri at MSPMentor reports yet another MSP merger/acquisition deal – the 15th he’s tracked in 2011. This one, in Western Canada, has VODA Computer Systems Ltd. and Graycon Group Ltd merging. Meanwhile, over at Channelnomics, Larry Walsh offers seven tips he’s gathered for MSPs who are looking to…
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Private Cloud Computing No Safer than Public Cloud
Many IT departments have put off public cloud deployments in favor of private cloud virtualization projects under the guise of security concerns — but new findings show that these private cloud deployments may be no more secure than their public counterparts. That’s good news for managed service providers with the right security chops and infrastructure…
