Year: 2014
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WAN Bandwidth Demand Creates the Need for Channel Expertise
Categories: NetworkingTop Forces Affecting WAN Over Next 12 Months 42% of organizations say investments in WANs are being driven by the need for better application performance while 32.4% cite the need to support real-time applications. Application Traffic Priorities Only 22.7% report that they make an effort to dynamically prioritize application traffic on the WAN. But an… Read more
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Pure Storage Seeks to End Maintenance-Fee Extortion
The use of increased maintenance fees to push customers into upgrading systems is a time-honored tradition. The theory is that it’s always less expensive and, thereby, more profitable to support the latest generation of any given product. But Pure Storage, a provider of solid-state storage systems, is now making the case that artificially increasing maintenance… Read more
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Windows XP Deadline: Helping Customers Handle the Transition
In theory, at least, the end of life for free support for Windows XP represents a boon for solution providers as organizations rush to upgrade systems before the looming April 8 deadline. But, as is often the case with all things Microsoft, there’s a lot of nuance when it comes to understanding how big an… Read more
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FalconStor Revamps Partner Program
FalconStor Software, a data protection and migration specialist, recently relaunched its PartnerChoice Program to offer better incentives, support and training for its solution providers, service providers, distributors and alliance partners to help expand their businesses into new markets. The revamped partner program is one piece of FalconStor’s new vision for 2014 that will be rolled… Read more
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IT Channel Growth Is in the Cards for 2014
Categories: Tech AnalysisHybrid cloud Looking Up The overall IT industry business confidence index is at 60.2 (out of 100), up 2.1 points from last quarter. Tops in Profitability in 2014 51% of respondents said IT services will be profitable next year, and 41% said software will be profitable. Other promising IT categories for profitability will be telecom… Read more
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Time to Create a Big Data Practice
Big data as an opportunity for the channel has proven to be somewhat elusive, largely because of the investment required to attain the skills to build and manage big data applications. The good news is that major players such as IBM and Cloudera are moving to make big data more accessible to the channel. At… Read more