Year: 2017
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Avnet Adds Training for Lenovo Products
Avnet Technology Solutions has expanded its education portfolio with training courses for Lenovo System x servers and its Flex blades, servers and integrated systems. The courses are available to Avnet’s channel partners and customers globally through its training division, Avnet Academy. Supporting the global Lenovo contract, Avnet also offers pilot partner programs with incentives to… Read more
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NFV Platform Battle Plays Out at Mobile World Congress
As service providers of all stripes gathered at the Mobile World Congress 2017 conference in Barcelona, many of them suddenly realized that they are falling behind the technological curve. Customers demanding more agile delivery of services are pressuring service providers to modernize their IT architecture at a much faster rate. Most service providers have been… Read more
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Analytics Emerges as a Means to an AI Solution’s End
Most advanced analytics applications today rely on statistical models to project an outcome based on all the data currently available. While not always 100 percent accurate, those models provide much higher degrees of certainty than previous generations of enterprise applications. Now, however, vendors are embedding machine and deep-learning algorithms into applications that promise to transform… Read more
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Datto Buys OpenMesh to Extend MSP Reach into Networking
In a move designed to significantly expand its partners’ market opportunities, Datto acquired OpenMesh, a provider of networking and security infrastructure managed via the cloud. OpenMesh will now be known as Datto Networking, a business unit that will operate alongside Datto’s existing data protection platform for managed service providers. OpenMesh has been making headway in… Read more
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Open-Source Networking Is Coming of Age
Service providers of all sizes and types should take note of some changes occurring across the open-source community—changes that promise to accelerate the adoption of software-defined networks (SDN). The first is a decision by AT&T to open source the ECOMP management and orchestration (MANO) framework it developed via the Linux Foundation. Through a variety of… Read more
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Kaspersky Lab Enhances Its Partner Program
Kaspersky Lab North America has expanded its 2017 channel partner program with several new enhancements that include new regional support, training and additional rewards. The program adds new specializations that include a managed service provider (MSP) program and an enterprise technology offering. The company also plans to roll out new regional Kaspersky Lab Partner Summit… Read more