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  • H-1B Visa Controversy Might Fade Away

    H-1B visas that enable highly skilled workers to move to the United States are a controversial subject both inside and out of the channel. Large vendors and IT services providers tended to proportionally benefit from their existence the most. In fact, many regional IT services providers complain that some global systems integrators (GSIs) and vendors…

  • 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…

  • CNCF Preps Kubernetes Program for MSPs

    As customer interest in the Kubernetes container management platform rises rapidly, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) arm of the Linux Foundation is gearing up to create a program to help educate managed service providers (MSPs) on how to build a practice around the Kubernetes framework developed by Google for managing containers such as Docker.…

  • 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…

  • Technology Sector Achieves Steady Growth

    Tech job search Technology Sector Achieves Steady Growth Tech employment is up, contributing to positive momentum that created a net gain of about 200,000 jobs for 2016, but IT job postings dropped over the last month. Inching Upward Overall IT sector employment now stands at just over 4.4 million, a small increase of 4,200 jobs…

  • ShoreTel Expands Cloud Partner Opportunities

    When it comes to business models in the cloud, there is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all model for solution providers. ShoreTel understands that, so it expanded its channel program in a way that enables partners to install implementations of a cloud-based unified communications platform. Previously, ShoreTel had only an agent model in place, and…

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