Year: 2016
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Solution Provider Marketing: Making Good Better
Categories: News and TrendsYou want to make more money. As obvious as that statement may seem, it is the most important thing to remember when planning and executing marketing for your channel company, and people sometimes lose track of it. It used to be said that effective marketing had to make as many impressions as possible by hitting… Read more
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How IT Service Providers Perceive Their Prospects
Categories: Managed ServicesIT service providers and security How IT Service Providers Perceive Their Prospects The two biggest revenue drivers for IT service providers in 2016 will be growth in the number of endpoints and demand for security services—two related trends. Revenue Drivers The top three IT services driving revenue are endpoint management, backup and restore, and disaster… Read more
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HPE: Need for Agility to Accelerate NFV Adoption
While much of the initial interest in software-defined networking (SDNs) and network-functions virtualization (NFV) software is driven by a desire to reduce costs, it looks like a crucial need for more agility may be speeding up IT service providers’ adoption of these emerging technologies. Hewlett Packard Enterprise has seen a marked shift in the rate… Read more
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Get Ready for the Shift to Cloud UC
Categories: NetworkingCloud UC Get Ready for the Shift to Cloud UC Cloud unified communications market share is expected to increase by a factor of six in the next five years, according to a new survey by BroadSoft. Market Penetration Respondents believe cloud unified communications (UCaaS/hosted PBX) market share for new lines shipped will increase nearly sixfold… Read more
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How IT Plans to Deploy Windows 10 and ConfigMgr
Categories: Tech AnalysisWindows 10 installation How IT Plans to Deploy Windows 10 and ConfigMgr Organizations are slowly switching to Windows 10, and nearly four out of five plan to use ConfigMgr to assist with deployment, a new survey shows. Something Old, Something New One-half of survey respondents said at least a portion of their systems run on… Read more
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Machine Learning to Transform Managed Services
Categories: Managed ServicesWhile there is a wealth IT innovations these days, two in particular are starting to capture the imagination of managed service providers (MSPs) looking to introduce higher levels of automation into their operations. The first is the growing need for big data analytics services capable of capturing massive amounts of machine data that can be… Read more