Year: 2016
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What Microsoft Training Program May Mean to Channel
Categories: CareersWhen Microsoft launched its Professional Degree Program at the company’s annual Worldwide Partner Conference last July, the first course was focused on data science. More than 50,000 people have signed up for the course since then, according to Chris Roy, Microsoft senior director of learning services. When the company launched the program, many questions were… Read more
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WaaS Competitive Fight Comes to Head in Channel
Categories: News and TrendsThere’s never been much love lost between telecommunications carriers and traditional channel resellers. Large swaths of the channel always felt that carriers were abusing their ability to buy network equipment in bulk and then resell a portion of it to corporate customers at price points that undercut resellers. Now, conflict between carriers and resellers that… Read more
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Distribution Becomes Programmable
Thanks to APIs in the age of the cloud, just about everything, including infrastructure, is programmable. It only makes sense that the services a distributor provides to the channel should be made available in a similar manner. With that goal in mind, AppDirect has opened up the APIs it used to create its cloud commerce… Read more
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End-of-Life Support: Continuing Channel Opportunity
Categories: News and TrendsOld technology End-of-Life Support: Continuing Channel Opportunity Using discontinued devices can increase a company’s risk of security breaches and network outages—problems that companies in the channel can help customers avoid. Health Assessment of Devices on Company Networks Organizations need to assess their network’s health by analyzing their infrastructure, assessing their disaster recovery plans and preparing… Read more
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IT Security Opportunities: From Cloud to Analytics
Categories: SecurityThe continued growth in IT security opportunities correlates with metamorphoses in both the technology sector and the security world. Indeed, during the last two years, just about every aspect of IT security has been utterly transformed. Not only are there more lethal threats than ever, but the way IT security is deployed and managed has… Read more
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Cloud Gains Software Development Momentum
Categories: Cloud ComputingCloud software development Cloud Gains Software Development Momentum Although cloud computing has clearly come of age, an era is just now dawning in which the cloud is now the default option for deploying application workloads. Where the Application Workloads Are Now 70% of respondents deploy software on-premise while 21% use a hybrid cloud/on-premise combination. Where… Read more