Recent Articles
-
Companies Are Making the Shift to Digital Content
Digital content Digital Distinction 58% of survey respondents plan to publish more than half of their content in electronic form (not in PDF) by the end of this year, and 32% expect to publish 90% of their content this way. Change Drivers 50% said they’re pursuing new content-delivery mechanisms because they feel they need to…
-
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Nears End of Life
Microsoft dropped the other proverbial shoe this week with the official announced that the end of life (EOL) for free support for the venerable Microsoft SQL Server database will occur April 16, 2016. This was generally expected since Microsoft began beating the drum about EOL support for the Windows Server 2003 platform on which most…
-
Avnet Forges Partnership With Intermedia
Avnet Teams Up With Cloud Provider Intermedia Avnet Technology Solutions has expanded its portfolio with the addition of Office in the Cloud services from Intermedia, a one-stop shop for cloud IT. Avnet will provide Intermedia’s cloud IT services to its U.S. and Canadian partners. These services include email, voice, file syncing and sharing, identity and access management,…
-
Salesforce Looks to Partners to Drive Growth Plans
Tyler Prince ticks off some of the goals Salesforce executives have set forth for the company: changing the conversation with customers to help them rethink how their businesses are run, creating a more vertical focus in Salesforce cloud services offerings and expanding the reach of the vendor internationally. Each time, Prince points to how Salesforce’s…
-
Ingram Micro Takes Channel Into the App Economy
Valued at tens of billions of dollars, the application economy is one space in which the channel has traditionally had not much of a presence. Ingram Micro wants to change that with the formation of the Ingram Micro Preferred App Dev Network. Ingram Micro vetted its installed base of partners to identify solution providers that…
-
Microsoft Makes Docker Container Progress
While there’s clearly a lot of hype these days concerning the adoption of Docker containers, most solution providers in the channel have yet to actually encounter them. The reason for this is that today most containers are used for application development projects. Production applications using Docker containers are starting to appear, but there are still…
