Year: 2016
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Microsoft Maps Out Its Partner Priorities
Categories: Tech CompaniesToronto—As Microsoft gears up for its new fiscal year, the tech giant revealed its six top sales priorities for both partners and its own internal sales organization. Leading the list is driving digital transformations. Following in quick succession are accelerating cloud adoption, propelling Windows 10 enterprise deployments, generating SQL Server 2016 growth, driving independent software… Read more
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Automation Provides Key to IT Services Success
Categories: Tech AnalysisIT automation Automation Provides Key to IT Services Success More IT service providers are relying on IT automation to compete effectively, a new study finds. The stakes will only get higher with time. Number of IT Environments Managed Just under half (48%) report they are managing 50 or more IT environments. Another 24% report managing… Read more
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Tech Data Launches IoT Business Practice
Categories: NetworkingTORONTO—With demand for Internet of things (IoT) expertise on the rise, Tech Data launched its new Smart IoT Solutions business practice. The primary goal is to provide solution providers with access to a range of IoT engineering expertise required to build and deploy IoT solutions in both Europe and North America, said Victor Paradell, vice… Read more
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The Long March to SDN Transformation
Categories: NetworkingSDN The Long March to SDN Transformation A new survey from Juniper Networks links advances in software-defined networking to enabling digital business disruptions. SDN and NFV Adoption 82% of ITDMs say they have deployed SDN. But only a third say their environment is predominantly based on SDN. And 85% report they are also already using… Read more
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Microsoft Urges Partners to Speed Move to Cloud
Categories: Tech CompaniesTORONTO—When it comes to competing in the age of the cloud, Microsoft has two strategic assets that no other entity can replicate easily. The first is the breath of its personal productivity applications, and the second is the reach of its channel partners. In a keynote address on July 11 at the Microsoft Worldwide Partners… Read more
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SAP’s Concur Unit Launches Solution Provider Program
Categories: Tech CompaniesOne of the biggest benefits of the rise of software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications is that they often make it affordable for an organization to acquire software they previously would not have had the time or money to deploy. Case in point are travel and expense management applications delivered as a service that are now being increasingly… Read more