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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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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Death of the Big Channel Program?
Thanks to the rise of big data analytics, the days of the big channel program that spans multiple tiers may soon be coming to an end. For some time now, channel managers have been accumulating data to keep track of every deal in real time. At a recent Global Channel Data Management Summit hosted by…
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Enterprise IT Spending Priorities Are Changing
Service providers Enterprise IT Spending Priorities Are Changing Solution providers should be heartened by the fact that companies planning to outsource tasks to external service providers will increase from 18 to 25 percent. Data Center Optimization Only 9% of IT leaders surveyed said their data centers are optimized. More than 60% said defining a data…
