Recent Articles
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All Covered’s New2U Program Catering to Device Management at Schools
By Chris Ehrlich RAMSEY, N.J. — All Covered is partnering with a maker of an operating system that coverts obsolete PC and Mac computers into Chrome devices. All Covered is helping to drive the deployment of Neverware’s CloudReady OS on old computers with a Windows or Mac OS, making them “secure, fast machines” that can…
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Cloud First: Accenture’s $3B Commitment to the Cloud
By Chris Ehrlich NEW YORK — At any moment, 70,000 global employees are working on the cloud in Accenture’s Cloud First group. Accenture is investing $3 billion over three years in the multi-service group, starting last fall, to help clients across all industries become cloud-first businesses and accelerate their digital transformation. Accenture’s Cloud First group…
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Cloud Service Providers & Channel Partners at Odds
The COVID-19 pandemic has obviously had a major impact on the ability of channel partners to engage their end customers. Because most channel partners have been unable to visit a customer in person, they have needed to rely on digital marketing to engage customers more than ever. Most channel partners even in the best of…
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AWS Opens Marketplace to Channel Partner Software
Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week flexed its distribution muscles by encouraging channel partners that develop their own applications to bring those offerings to market via the Amazon Marketplace. During an online AWS re:Invent conference, AWS announced that consulting partners that build their own software will now be able to distribute their software via the…
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From VAR to MSP: Managing the Shift from Push to Pull
Being a “VAR” has been impossible for many, many years. Yet many channel partners still refer to themselves as VARs. The one thing that they should be thinking about is how this impacts the relationship they have with the brands of hardware and software they partner with. You Just Can’t Do That Back in the…
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IPv6 Transition Creates Big MSP Opportunity
It’s the project whose time has come – nine years ago. Literally all the IP addresses available in the original internet numbering scheme, IPv4, have been distributed, the last block in 2011. The new numbering has been available for many years, and the intention was to complete the transition from the old to the new…
