Year: 2016
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How Channel Leaders Are Shifting Service Offerings
Categories: Managed ServicesMSPs How Channel Leaders Are Shifting Service Offerings Channel execs are redefining their strategies as the tech and business landscape shifts. The result: an increase in managed service offerings. Shifting Focus 42% of channel leaders said their service offerings have changed from two years ago. Management Plan One-half said they’ve sold more managed services over… Read more
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The Cloud MSP: Building on Traditional Roles
Categories: Managed ServicesMany channel partners who used to sell on-premise infrastructure solutions have been gradually acknowledging the customer value proposition from cloud computing and have transitioned to it. A new breed of cloud solution providers has emerged as a result. Many managed service providers (MSPs), on the other hand, seem to want to perpetuate the myth that… Read more
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Dell Details Its Hyperconverged Platform Ambitions
Categories: Tech CompaniesA fair amount of the market confusion surrounding the merger of Dell and EMC is playing out in the hyperconverged appliance space this week. In advance of the actual merger, Dell this week announced it is reselling the entire portfolio of systems developed by VCE, a unit of EMC. At the same time, Dell also… Read more
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Coming to Terms With Microsoft and Linux
Categories: Tech CompaniesFor many Microsoft partners, the last two decades could easily be defined as a battle between the merits of Windows server software and a raft of open-source technologies that, to one degree or another, were aimed at usurping the Microsoft franchise. So now that Microsoft has begun to embrace Linux and open source, it’s understandable… Read more
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Oracle Drives Cloud Adoption Through Partners
One of the biggest opportunities for Oracle’s partners is a growing role in what the company calls its cloud transformation. This transformation is considerable despite the company’s late entry into the cloud computing space. Oracle believes its channel partners will be critical to increasing the industry’s adoption of its cloud solutions and services. Oracle’s total… Read more
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Lenovo Partners With Nexenta for Open-Source Storage
Categories: StorageIn a development that portends significant changes to the way storage is acquired and managed, Lenovo and Nexenta have agreed to bring to market open-source software-defined storage (SDS) offerings under the auspices of a broader industry initiative led by Intel. Lenovo will bring Nexenta SDS software to market in the form of servers loaded with… Read more