Year: 2017
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Close the Skills Gap by Resolving the Confidence Gap
Categories: CareersIf you ask Amy Kardel, it’s all about people—people who need people. Kardel is the chairwoman of the Computer Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) board of directors and president of Clever Ducks, an IT service provider. She sees workforce challenges as the IT industry’s biggest challenges, including both the skills gap for technology service providers and… Read more
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Sophos Rewards Partners for Online Marketplace Sales
The proliferation of app stores and online marketplaces has created a significant challenge for solution providers across the channel. With increased regularity, organizations are now purchasing both software and hardware in a way that bypasses the indirect channel. Sophos, a provider of endpoint management software, is now providing a way for solution providers to recoup… Read more
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Kodak Alaris Revamps Its Partner Program
Categories: Tech CompaniesWith more than 90 percent of Kodak Alaris’ Information Management (IM) division sales conducted via its reseller and distributor partners, the company’s success is tightly tied to the channel, prompting a revamp of its partner program. In addition, distributors, value-added resellers (VARs) and solution providers are always looking for new ways to deal with increased… Read more
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Low-Code Platforms Can Take Channel to a Higher Place
Solution providers are being continuously told to expand the scope of their services by adding or extending their application development capabilities. Only then will they be in a commanding position that will enable them to pull in the other technologies needed to deploy that application in the form of a complete solution. The only problem… Read more
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Kubernetes Comes to the Channel
Within application development circles, containers such as Docker are taking the world by storm. Surveys typically find that the majority of IT organizations have deployed at least one container application in production. Naturally, there’s a fierce battle under way between proponents of Docker and an open-source Kubernetes project led by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation… Read more
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Why Tech Companies Are Eager to Invest in 5G
Categories: NetworkingWhy Tech Companies Are Eager to Invest in 5G Why Tech Companies Are Eager to Invest in 5G Anticipating faster networks and greater IoT capabilities, companies are fast-forwarding 5G initiatives, with many aiming for public launches within the year. Universal Buy-In 96% of the executives surveyed said their company plans to leverage 5G technology, and… Read more