Recent Articles
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The Selling of IT Simplicity
It seems like everywhere anyone turns these days IT is getting more complex to manage. The question that begs then is whether there will soon be some sort of backlash against IT products that are overly complex. And if so, is this a trend that solution providers could capitalize on. Certainly part of the interest…
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The Evolution of Unified Communications as a Service
Just about everybody in the channel would agree that unified communications have been a frustrating experience. While the technology holds great promise, the effort required to get customers to first test and then actually deploy it can be nothing short of herculean. But all that may be about to finally change for the better now…
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Software-Defined Networking Technologies to Reshape Market
Software-defined networking (SDN) may be one of the hottest new buzz words floating around the channel in the wake of the Interop 2012 conference this week. But while most of the SDN conversation is focused on reducing the cost of managing enterprise networks by managing them at a much higher level of abstraction, the implications…
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The Path to Cloud Control
Historically solution providers in the channel tended to align themselves with one major computing platform or another. Given the complexities of setting up any particular server platform, that approach made a lot of technical and economic sense even if it did tie the interests of a solution provider to a particular vendor. But in the…
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Interest in All Things DNS Rises
Anything having to do with the Domain Name System (DNS) these days is getting a whole lot more attention. Not only are DNS servers a fundamental piece of core Internet infrastructure that connects users to Web applications, they have also become one of the favorite targets of cybercriminals. Whether it’s in the form of a…