Year: 2014
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Channel News Briefs: Week of June 8
Categories: Cloud Computing, Managed Services, Networking, News and Trends, Partners, Security, StorageCore Security Inks Partner Deal With Axxum Core Security, a provider of attack intelligence solutions, has added Axxum Technologies to its Core Secured Partner Program. Axxum is a provider of cyber-security services for the federal government, specializing in risk management, information assurance, security operations and penetration testing & vulnerability assessments. The partnership enables Axxum to add the Core… Read more
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Special Skills Needed to Help Firms Tackle Mobile Challenges
Categories: PartnersBYOD policy Mobility Driver The top reason to adopt a mobile strategy is to allow employee flexibility (51%), followed by productivity gains (47%), support telecommuting/remote work (41%), and a higher need for employee availability (37%). Reality Check Regardless of company size, all survey respondents estimate 74% to 81% of their employees work full-time in an… Read more
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Nine Important Facts About the SDN, NFV Revolution
Categories: NetworkingSDN SDN Defined Software-defined networking creates open network controllers. The definition of SDN is the separation of the “control plane” and the “data plane” from the underlying networking hardware via a new generation of open controllers; flexibility, visibility and agility are added to the network. The Rise of NFVs Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) software will… Read more
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Making DaaS an Easier Sell for Channel and Customers
Thanks to several false starts involving desktop virtualization, desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) technology has been something of a tough sell. Via a new distribution agreement with Tech Data, the folks at dinCloud are out to change that. Customers are clearly getting more comfortable with all things in the cloud, but interest in DaaS has been tepid at… Read more
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Channel News Briefs: Week of June 1, 2014
Tech Data Delivers Integrated Data Protection for SMBs The newly launched Tech Data Integrated Data Protection Solution targets small and midsize businesses (SMBs). The integrated product offering includes IBM’s PowerLinux, IBM’s V3700 Storwize products and the new IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Software Entry for midsize organizations. Offered on a single stock-keeping unit (SKU), the data… Read more
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Finding Ways to Make Workflow Processes Less Cumbersome
Categories: Business ManagementAs fun and exciting as IT can be, most people don’t really care how something actually works. To them, IT is the means to either one of two ends. If they are the business owner, they want to know how IT can improve productivity at a lower cost. Employees, meanwhile, just want to know how… Read more