Year: 2014

  • SMBs Struggle With Data Protection’s Rising Complexity

    SMBs Struggle With Data Protection’s Rising Complexity
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    SMBs Struggle With Data Protection’s Rising Complexity IT Infrastructure Deployed The IT infrastructure landscape has never been more complex: 79% of respondents still have physical servers on premise and more than 60% have virtual servers, as well. What’s more, 37% already have a mix of physical, virtual and cloud deployments. Hypervisor Usage When it comes… Read more

  • Channel News Briefs: Week of July 13

    Channel News Briefs: Week of July 13
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    Parallels Supports Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider Program Parallels, the platform provider for cloud service delivery, is supporting the new Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider Program with Parallels SmartStart for Office 365. The new Microsoft provider program expands the opportunity for Microsoft’s channel to resell Microsoft Office 365. The SmartStart program delivers a full range of Microsoft… Read more

  • Sorting Through Big Data’s Challenges Will Take Time

    Sorting Through Big Data’s Challenges Will Take Time
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    Big Data challenges Too Much Big Data Variety The variety of big data may not be the spice of life after all. In fact, 71% of the data scientists surveyed said new types of data make developing analytics apps more difficult. Biggest Big Data Challenge Big data analytics is more complex than most appreciate: 40%… Read more

  • IronKey by Imation Enhances Its Channel Program

    IronKey by Imation Enhances Its Channel Program
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    One of the more interesting approaches to securing a PC environment has been the emergence of Windows To Go, an instance of Windows 8 that can be booted off a USB drive. The idea is to allow organizations to better secure their PCs by issuing USB drives that workers plug into a PC to bring… Read more

  • Defining the Microsoft Active Directory Opportunity

    Defining the Microsoft Active Directory Opportunity
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    User authentication Problems With Microsoft Active Directory After all these years, Microsoft AD is still a challenge to manage. More than half of respondents experience issues with the domain (57%) and with the domain controller (52%). Just under half (48%) have had domain object issues. Microsoft AD Testing Challenges IT organizations approach Microsoft AD with… Read more

  • Avnet Bolsters Its Network Security Business

    Avnet Bolsters Its Network Security Business
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    As security becomes a bigger driver of IT strategies, Avnet Technology Solutions (ATS) is positioning itself to better support its global partners by helping them target the growing networking security market as a key opportunity. One of the most recent moves by Avnet is the launch of its Avnet Security & Networking Solutions (ASNS) division… Read more