Recent Articles
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SimpliVity Extends Hyperconvergence to the Cloud
SimpliVity has extended the concept of hyperconvergence into the cloud by becoming a member of the Microsoft Cloud Alliance. With plans to go public by year’s end, SimpliVity has been riding high on a software approach to hyperconvergence that enables IT organizations to embrace hyperconvergence across the data center, without having to acquire new classes…
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No App Is an Island Anymore
By Daniel Saks In today’s rapidly evolving software industry, trends seem to evaporate as quickly as they emerge. However, one undeniable fact stands out—the most successful technology companies have gone all-in on cultivating a network of software, developed by third parties, that enhances their core products. This is true for “born-in-the-cloud” companies as well as…
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Top Channel Partner New Year’s Resolutions
“Always innovate” was one of the first big lessons a friend from IBM taught me way back in the 1980s. IBM had just announced the Dealer Service Option, the company’s service contract for the IBM PC line of business. At the time, I was working at The Computer Factory and I asked my IBM Channel…
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How Open APIs Could Change Communications Services
As a class of technologies, communications software offered a lot of promise, but the complexities associated with deploying these products on-premise tended to limit adoption. With the rise of the cloud, however, it’s now possible to routinely invoke communications software as a service. Less clear now is whether those services will be primarily invoked via…
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2016 IT Channel Outlook: Optimism and Obstacles
As far as the 2016 IT channel business outlook is concerned, the coming year is starting to look like the usual best and worst of times for the channel. On one hand, there are more emerging technologies beginning to find mainstream acceptance than in any time in recent memory. This bodes well for mobile and…
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NetApp-SolidFire Deal to Drive All-Flash DCs
As is often the case when there is a major technology disruption, incumbent vendors often wind up paying a premium to acquire rival organizations that are making inroads into their core markets. NetApp’s $870 million planned acquisition of SolidFire, a provider of all-flash arrays and associated management software, is no exception. NetApp CEO George Kurian…
