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Dell EMC to Review Channel Partners Biannually
As promised earlier this year, Dell EMC recently began informing both EMC and Dell partners that beginning on Feb. 1, they would be placed within the four major tiers that make up the Dell EMC channel program, once the new Dell EMC fiscal year gets started. While Dell EMC has been telegraphing the partner reviews…
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Quest Looks to Tech Data to Ease Channel Transition
In the wake of being spun out of Dell prior to the merger between Dell and EMC, Quest Software is now in the process of trying to reconnect with the channel. With that goal in mind, Quest Software has aligned itself with Tech Data to make a broad range of IT management, data protection and…
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H-1B Visa Controversy Might Fade Away
H-1B visas that enable highly skilled workers to move to the United States are a controversial subject both inside and out of the channel. Large vendors and IT services providers tended to proportionally benefit from their existence the most. In fact, many regional IT services providers complain that some global systems integrators (GSIs) and vendors…
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Digital Business Will Increase IT Spending in 2017
Investments in IT have clearly been a major driver of the modern economy. But as solution providers gear up for 2017, the biggest opportunity is not going to be centered around any one technology as much as it will focus on turning visions of digital business transformations into reality. Most organizations have historically employed IT…
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CNCF Preps Kubernetes Program for MSPs
As customer interest in the Kubernetes container management platform rises rapidly, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) arm of the Linux Foundation is gearing up to create a program to help educate managed service providers (MSPs) on how to build a practice around the Kubernetes framework developed by Google for managing containers such as Docker.…
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HPE Looks to Expand CSP Ecosystem
The cloud service provider market is evolving into two distinct camps. The first is exemplified by well-known CSPs such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. CSPs that operate at that scale build their own custom infrastructure to keep the cost of operating at massive amounts of scale under control. The rest of the…
