Recent Articles
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Internet of Things Creates Interesting New Channel Possibilities
When it comes to providing IT services a lot of solution providers tend to focus their energies on back-office opportunities. But as the so-called “Internet of Things” continues to get more robust, it’s starting to looks like integration of back-office systems with any number of types of embedded systems may turn out to be a…
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Networking as the Next Great Opportunity for the Channel in the Cloud
The history of computing can be defined by the movement of bottleneck around the data center. Every time a bottleneck appears a massive opportunity emerges for the channel. The next great bottleneck is going to be the networking layer in the cloud. A recent survey of 1,300 IT professionals conducted by Cisco finds that the…
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Assessing the Impact of HP Layoffs
Any time a company such as Hewlett-Packard announces that it intends to lay off 27,000 employees, or 7.7 percent of its workforce, it’s going to be cause some consternation. There is a natural tendency to assume the sky is falling, and while it’s not an ideal situation by any means to put that in some…
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Considering the IBM Watson Possibilities
While the hype surrounding IBM’s Watson project far exceeds any current reality, the implications of the next-generation analytics platform on the channel could be as far reaching as they are profound. IBM has already started a number of pilot projects in vertical sectors such as healthcare that will ultimately transform how those businesses are managed.…