Recent Articles
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Distribution Becomes Programmable
Thanks to APIs in the age of the cloud, just about everything, including infrastructure, is programmable. It only makes sense that the services a distributor provides to the channel should be made available in a similar manner. With that goal in mind, AppDirect has opened up the APIs it used to create its cloud commerce…
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End-of-Life Support: Continuing Channel Opportunity
Old technology End-of-Life Support: Continuing Channel Opportunity Using discontinued devices can increase a company’s risk of security breaches and network outages—problems that companies in the channel can help customers avoid. Health Assessment of Devices on Company Networks Organizations need to assess their network’s health by analyzing their infrastructure, assessing their disaster recovery plans and preparing…
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Channel Advantage: Diverse Tech in the Data Center
Cloud maintenance Channel Advantage: Diverse Tech in the Data Center Complexity has always been good to, and for, the channel. The days when solution providers could afford to specialize in a narrow segment of data center technologies are now long over. Use of Cloud Services to Deploy Applications 51% of companies now use IaaS, 22%…
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CompTIA: Digital Disruption, From the Cloud to VR
Merriam-Webster gives the definition of “disrupt” as “break apart,” “throw into disorder” or “interrupt the normal course or unity of” something. All those terms apply to digital disruption. At ChannelCon 2016 this past summer, speakers examined how the cloud has been the catalyst for digital disruption that has reshaped business models and led to new…
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Cisco, Salesforce Alliance a Boon to the Channel
Every once in a great while two great channel ecosystems come together in a way that holds the promise of creating a raft of new opportunities that many would have otherwise overlooked. One example of such a promising arrangement is the broad-ranging alliance between Cisco and Salesforce. As part of the deal, Cisco collaboration and…
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New Cisco Services Aimed at Accelerating Cloud Adoption
Cisco has rolled out a new set of Cloud Professional Services to help businesses optimize their cloud environments, addressing the challenges and obstacles that the company covered in a new cloud report and through its Business Cloud Advisor online tool that helps customers assess their cloud readiness and associated benefits. Channel partners employ the tool…
