Recent Articles
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Itopia Simplifies WaaS Adoption for the Channel
One of the biggest challenges facing solution providers in the age of the cloud is finding ways to add value around commodity services, such as Microsoft Office 365. Against that backdrop, Itopia has launched Cielo Suite, a set of tools that makes it simpler for managed service providers (MSPs) to deliver and monetize the company’s…
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Tech Industry M&A Market Cooled Off in 2015
IT services spending Tech Industry M&A Market Cooled Off in 2015 A new report from PwC shows a drop in the number of M&As in 2015 from the year before, but IT services deals surged last year. Tech Deals and Their Value Decline 278 tech industry M&A deals closed last year, totaling $147.7 billion in…
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Making Channel Promotions Work Better
For most channel partners, admitting that you compete on price is almost like confessing sin. Most channel “coaches” implore partners to avoid such behavior. The reality is that helping clients take the best advantage of current manufacturer and software provider promotions has long been a competitive advantage for the best integrators in our industry. Licensing…
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Acquisition of Ingram Micro Draws Intense Scrutiny
The IT channel in the United States just got a startling reminder of how truly global the economy has become with the acquisition of Ingram Micro by a $90 billion Chinese conglomerate. The Tianjin Tianhau Investment Co., an arm of HNA Group, a multinational company with interests in a number of shipping companies and an…
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Revenge of the Hyperconverged On-Premise Server
Much of the attraction of public cloud services can be attributed to how comparatively simple it is to spin up and then manage virtual machines. In contrast, much of the management of on-premise systems is downright manual. For that reason, interest in the rise of software-defined data centers is high, even though actual adoption of…
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Making Sense of IT Perceptions and Realities
IT strategy Making Sense of IT Perceptions and Realities Solution providers should not only be aware of what customers perceive as their IT challenges but also understand what their actual operations issues are. Major Business Challenges Top challenges included standardizing and streamlining business processes (34%), too many manual processes (33%) and keeping up with demand…
