Year: 2014
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Ricoh Deal for mindShift to Bolster White-Label IT Services
With the planned purchase of mindShift Technologies from Best Buy, Ricoh aims to expand the IT services that mindShift currently allows other providers to sell under their own brands. The acquisition of mindShift—expected to close in February—represents an opportunity to bolster a fledgling part of Ricoh’s services portfolio. Known primarily for printers, Ricoh provides managed… Read more
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Cloud Challenges Are On Tap for the Channel in 2014
Solution providers in the channel greet every new year with equal measures of optimism and trepidation. What makes 2014 different is that the gulf between those two extremes has never been wider. On the optimistic side of the IT ledger there have never been more emerging technologies converging around private cloud computing, which customers clearly… Read more
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Centrify Revamps Partner Program
Centrify, a provider of Unified Identity Services across data center, cloud and mobile applications, has rebranded its partner program to better support the needs of its solution providers—including resellers, distributors, integrators and consultants—as the company continues to move into the cloud and mobile markets. “We have always been channel-centric,” said Nathan Adams, director, Centrify North… Read more
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Intel Aims to Improve Big Data Economics
Intel’s broad strategy to increase significantly the utilization rate of x86 servers is part of a sweeping effort to make enterprise computing more efficient—an effort that could have far-reaching implications for the channel. Given all the cores that Intel is adding with each successive wave of new processors, the challenge now is finding ways to… Read more
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Mobile BI Picks Up Steam, Offers Potential for the Channel
Categories: Mobile DevicesMobile BI Picks Up Steam, Offers Potential for the Channel Top Mobile Computing Apps After email and apps such as calendaring, BI apps rank third in terms of being critical or very important. email: 89%, personal information management: 73%, business intelligence: 71%, CRM application access: 51%, collaboration framework: 49% Importance of Mobile BI in 2013… Read more