Year: 2013

  • Asigra Creates New Pricing Model for Backup, Recovery

    Asigra Creates New Pricing Model for Backup, Recovery
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    By Gina Roos and Michael Vizard As part of an effort to rectify what it describes as a fundamentally broken pricing model for cloud backup, Asigra, a cloud backup, recovery and restore software provider, has introduced a new pricing model that seeks to decouple backup from the recovery process. Instead of charging customers a flat… Read more

  • Mobile Computing: Making Dollars and ‘Sense’ in the Channel

    Mobile Computing: Making Dollars and ‘Sense’ in the Channel
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    Mobile computing represents a tantalizing yet frustrating opportunity for the channel. Demand for mobile computing devices is off the charts, but there’s not a big profit margin involved in selling these units. It’s only when an organization decides to connect these devices to its corporate networks that the channel sees the potential to make real… Read more

  • Demand for BI in the Cloud Varies

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    Most Strategic BI Focus Dashboards: 95%,  End-User Self-Service: 90%,  Advanced,  Visualization: 84%,  Data Warehousing: 82%,  Integration With Operational Processes: 82%,  Data Discovery: 79% Read more

  • Roambi Launches N.A. Partner Program, Debuts Cloud

    Roambi Launches N.A. Partner Program, Debuts Cloud
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    Roambi has launched its  North America Roambi Partner Program, which will enable solution and referral partners to offer their customers a new cloud platform that takes advantage of the increasing business use of smartphones and tablets. Roambi Business, the new cloud platform, gives mobile device users access to a data visualization tool that leverages their… Read more

  • HP Makes Slow but Steady Channel Progress

    HP Makes Slow but Steady Channel Progress
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    It takes a lot of time and effort to repair relationships in the channel. That’s the hard lesson the folks at Hewlett-Packard are learning after extending some very attractive olive branches to the channel at the company’s annual partner conference last spring. As part of a sustained effort to extend its reach across the channel,… Read more

  • Dropbox.com Launches Channel Network

    Dropbox.com Launches Channel Network
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    When it comes to compliance and security issues, the specter of end users routinely violating corporate polices when using cloud services such as Dropbox.com has been a boon to solution providers that specialize in these areas. Now, however, instead of being the source of the problem, Dropbox.com wants to work with channel partners to become… Read more