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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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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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…
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Managed Cloud Services Come to the Channel
Given the fact that the distinction between managed hosting and cloud computing is relatively thin, it should not be all that surprising to see solution provider starting to offer managed cloud computing services. What is surprising is that more of them are starting to wrap channel programs around those services as part of an effort…
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Solution Providers as Makers of the Data Center Peace
There has never been any love lost between IT professionals and the people that pay the electric bills for the data center. Facilities people don’t tend to care of environments that are not particularly predictable and IT people are not particularly well known for their appreciation of the cost of electricity or the difficulties associated…