Year: 2015
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The Application Economy: Too Significant to Ignore
Categories: Tech AnalysisApplication economy Greatest Ability to Provide Applications to Support Services Business executives ranked financial services the highest in terms of ability, at 78%, followed by telecommunications, at 71%. Least Ability to Provide Applications to Support Services Business executives ranked government agencies and municipal services as the lowest, at 51% and 52%, respectively. Application Attributes Most… Read more
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SanDisk Launches Its First Enterprise Partner Program
Categories: Tech CompaniesSanDisk rolled out its first enterprise channel program in a move aimed at helping the company gain a leg up in the marketplace, particularly for flash storage in the data center. After the buyout last year of Fusion-io, a provider of flash storage that plugs directly into servers, it became apparent that SanDisk needed a… Read more
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Avnet Forges Partnership With Intermedia
Avnet Teams Up With Cloud Provider Intermedia Avnet Technology Solutions has expanded its portfolio with the addition of Office in the Cloud services from Intermedia, a one-stop shop for cloud IT. Avnet will provide Intermedia’s cloud IT services to its U.S. and Canadian partners. These services include email, voice, file syncing and sharing, identity and access management,… Read more
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Salesforce Looks to Partners to Drive Growth Plans
Tyler Prince ticks off some of the goals Salesforce executives have set forth for the company: changing the conversation with customers to help them rethink how their businesses are run, creating a more vertical focus in Salesforce cloud services offerings and expanding the reach of the vendor internationally. Each time, Prince points to how Salesforce’s… Read more
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RSA Shows Partners the Security Ropes
Categories: SecurityWith the annual RSA security conference set to kick off next week, much of the attention in the channel community naturally turns to security. With demand for IT security expertise at an all-time high, more organizations than ever are looking for external services to help secure their IT environments. The challenge is that creating a… Read more
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Ingram Micro Takes Channel Into the App Economy
Categories: News and TrendsValued at tens of billions of dollars, the application economy is one space in which the channel has traditionally had not much of a presence. Ingram Micro wants to change that with the formation of the Ingram Micro Preferred App Dev Network. Ingram Micro vetted its installed base of partners to identify solution providers that… Read more