Year: 2016

  • Tech Industry M&A Market Cooled Off in 2015

    Tech Industry M&A Market Cooled Off in 2015

    Dennis McCafferty

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    IT services spending Tech Industry M&A Market Cooled Off in 2015 A new report from PwC shows a drop in the number of M&As in 2015 from the year before, but IT services deals surged last year. Tech Deals and Their Value Decline 278 tech industry M&A deals closed last year, totaling $147.7 billion in… Read more

  • Time to Rebuild the IT Services House

    Michael Vizard

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    For the most part, IT service providers are not so different from the average IT organization. Over time, a large number of IT silos that are optimized for specific classes of application workloads have sprung up for one reason or another. The problem is that each of these silos requires the service provider to dedicate… Read more

  • Making Channel Promotions Work Better

    Channel Insider Staff

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    For most channel partners, admitting that you compete on price is almost like confessing sin. Most channel “coaches” implore partners to avoid such behavior. The reality is that helping clients take the best advantage of current manufacturer and software provider promotions has long been a competitive advantage for the best integrators in our industry. Licensing… Read more

  • Acquisition of Ingram Micro Draws Intense Scrutiny

    Acquisition of Ingram Micro Draws Intense Scrutiny

    Channel Insider Staff

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    The IT channel in the United States just got a startling reminder of how truly global the economy has become with the acquisition of Ingram Micro by a $90 billion Chinese conglomerate. The Tianjin Tianhau Investment Co., an arm of HNA Group, a multinational company with interests in a number of shipping companies and an… Read more

  • IBM Offers Up $5M Watson Solutions Prize

    IBM Offers Up $5M Watson Solutions Prize

    Michael Vizard

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    At the TED2016 conference this week, IBM and XPRIZE, a non-profit organization that designs and manages public competitions to create innovative IT solutions, announced that they will jointly award a $5 million prize to the team that best shows how humans can collaborate with cognitive artificial intelligence (AI) applications, such as IBM Watson. With the… Read more

  • What Are the Costs of Mobile Computing?

    What Are the Costs of Mobile Computing?

    Michael Vizard

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    Mobile costs Assessing the True Costs of Mobile Computing The total cost of mobile computing is more than 100 percent higher than most IT professionals anticipate because it includes many often-forgotten factors. Type of Mobile Computing Devices in Use Apple iOS devices are the most widely used, at 39%, followed by Android (28%) and Windows… Read more