Year: 2016
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H-1B Visa Controversy Might Fade Away
Categories: News and TrendsH-1B visas that enable highly skilled workers to move to the United States are a controversial subject both inside and out of the channel. Large vendors and IT services providers tended to proportionally benefit from their existence the most. In fact, many regional IT services providers complain that some global systems integrators (GSIs) and vendors… Read more
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Digital Business Will Increase IT Spending in 2017
Investments in IT have clearly been a major driver of the modern economy. But as solution providers gear up for 2017, the biggest opportunity is not going to be centered around any one technology as much as it will focus on turning visions of digital business transformations into reality. Most organizations have historically employed IT… Read more
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Interest in Network and Security Services Grows
Categories: NetworkingNetworking Interest in Network and Security Services Grows Managed global WAN connectivity platforms and firewall-as-a-service offerings are high on the list of approaches being considered by IT organizations. Network Upgrade Plans Among IT pros that plan to upgrade their networks in the next 12 months, 26% said a shift to a managed global WAN connectivity… Read more
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CNCF Preps Kubernetes Program for MSPs
As customer interest in the Kubernetes container management platform rises rapidly, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) arm of the Linux Foundation is gearing up to create a program to help educate managed service providers (MSPs) on how to build a practice around the Kubernetes framework developed by Google for managing containers such as Docker.… Read more
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HPE Looks to Expand CSP Ecosystem
The cloud service provider market is evolving into two distinct camps. The first is exemplified by well-known CSPs such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. CSPs that operate at that scale build their own custom infrastructure to keep the cost of operating at massive amounts of scale under control. The rest of the… Read more
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Technology Sector Achieves Steady Growth
Categories: News and TrendsTech job search Technology Sector Achieves Steady Growth Tech employment is up, contributing to positive momentum that created a net gain of about 200,000 jobs for 2016, but IT job postings dropped over the last month. Inching Upward Overall IT sector employment now stands at just over 4.4 million, a small increase of 4,200 jobs… Read more