Recent Articles
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Verizon Moves Closer to the Channel in the Cloud Age
There’s never been much love lost between traditional resellers and providers of telecommunications services. As part of an effort to secure telecommunications services, the latter group has been accused of selling network infrastructure equipment in a way that undercuts traditional resellers just to secure the contract. However, with the rise of the cloud, the relationship…
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Channel News Briefs: Week of Aug. 31
Avnet Services Expands IBM Educational Portfolio The Avnet Services business unit of Avnet Technology Solutions (ATS) is expanding its IBM-related educational offerings. Avnet Services and its partners developed the courses, which will focus on key technical areas, such as AIX, business analytics, content manager, Java, and mobile development (iOS and Android). The courses will initially be…
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Tamr Taps Channel to Market Its Data Access Platform
The biggest limiting factor to big data is finding a way to make all that information accessible to the people who can make the most use of it. To help address that challenge, Tamr developed a platform that uses machine learning algorithms to identify relationships between different types of data sets. Tamr, a startup company…
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M&As Pick Up Steam in Cloud, Mobile, Analytics Spaces
Mergers and acquisitions Valuation of Tech M&As Rises At $52.4 billion for the second quarter, the aggregate value of all disclosed-value tech deals soared 57% year-over-year, despite falling 21% from a record-setting first quarter. Lots of Activity Across the IT Sector The volume of deals set a second consecutive record for any quarter in the…
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Intermedia Extends Cloud’s Appeal to the Channel
More often than not, smaller is better than bigger in the channel. Intermedia, which has 5,000 active partners, has created a niche for itself by providing, among other things, Microsoft Exchange and Office 365 services to the channel, in direct competition with cloud services from Microsoft. Now, Intermedia is trying to extend its appeal in…
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Shadow IT ‘Menace’ Creates Channel Opportunities
Shadow IT and file sharing Password Management: A Major Compliance Headache In the age of shadow IT, no one is in charge of passwords: 89% of former employees retained access to passwords. File-Sharing Services Are the Worst Compliance Issue People think of these services as their own personal cloud; 88% retained access to file-sharing services…
