Recent Articles
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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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Putting a Better Big Data Face on Windows 8
With the rise of Big Data the single most compelling reason to upgrade any client system is going to be the ability to actually visualize all that data. Existing systems by and large do a poor job of visualization, especially when compared to Windows 8 or the MacOS running on the latest next-generation processor from…
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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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Workstations Become More Viable Customer Option
While PC margins are razor thin these days, one of the more interesting developments in the workstation space is that the delta between the cost of a PC and a workstation has significantly narrowed. That means there’s a lot more customers who previously might have only considered a standard PC that are now probably willing…
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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…