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Citrix Advises Partners to Play Long Ball in the Cloud
When it comes to transitioning desktops into the cloud, Citrix management thinks 2017 will be more of a transition year, with 2018 shaping up to be the year when desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) supplants the traditional desktop. At the recent Citrix Summit 2017 conference, Citrix channel chief Craig Stillwell told partners that while lots of strides are…
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NVIDIA Starts to Flex Channel Muscles
As graphical processing units (GPUs) become mainstream elements of application environments, NVIDIA is starting to create a more robust channel ecosystem around its processors. To advance that goal NVIDIA added a NVIDIA GRID channel program aimed at cloud service providers (CSPs), while at the same time revealing additional partnerships with Nutanix and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE).…
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The SaaS Application War Will Escalate in 2017
At the start of the New Year, the one thing that channel partners can count on is that the level of competition between providers of software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications is about to become fiercer by several orders of magnitude. The two big drivers of the competition are going to be Salesforce and Oracle. Salesforce CEO Marc…
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Cloud Security Creates Channel Opportunities
Cloud data Cloud Security Creates Channel Opportunities Cloud security requires a different approach and a new portfolio of technologies, and that offers channel partners the opportunity to act as a guiding hand. Cloud Services Increase The average organization analyzed in the report uses 1,427 cloud services to upload 18.5 TB of data to the cloud,…
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Digital Business Will Increase IT Spending in 2017
Investments in IT have clearly been a major driver of the modern economy. But as solution providers gear up for 2017, the biggest opportunity is not going to be centered around any one technology as much as it will focus on turning visions of digital business transformations into reality. Most organizations have historically employed IT…
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HPE Looks to Expand CSP Ecosystem
The cloud service provider market is evolving into two distinct camps. The first is exemplified by well-known CSPs such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. CSPs that operate at that scale build their own custom infrastructure to keep the cost of operating at massive amounts of scale under control. The rest of the…
