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  • Solution Providers to Vie for Tight IT Dollars

    IT spending IT Budgets Holding Steady On average, IT professionals surveyed plan to invest $291,062 on IT products and services this year. Only 33% of respondents expect 2015 budgets to increase from 2014 levels. Top Drivers of IT Spending More than two-thirds (67%) of IT pros cite end-of-life support as the driving force behind new…

  • Windows 10 Gets a Warm Reception

    As Microsoft continues to create momentum around the forthcoming release of Windows 10, there’s no doubt that interest in the new iteration of the most widely used desktop operating system in business environments is starting to build. This week, Microsoft gave its most detailed preview yet of Windows 10, which unifies the end-user experience across…

  • Delivering Hadoop as a Service

    There’s clearly a lot of interest in big data applications, in general, and Hadoop, in particular, as the vehicle through which those applications will be delivered. However, the issue solution providers may want to consider in the age of the cloud is the degree to which they really need to have Hadoop skills to play…

  • Synametrics Aims to Make Private Cloud Backup Easy

    Synametrics Technologies aims to make it easy for channel partners to sell and use its Syncrify private cloud backup software. The New Jersey-based company typically partners with resellers that purchase the software in bulk licenses and resell to their customers and managed hosting providers that license and use the software to provide backup services to…

  • Five Business Technology Predictions for 2015

    Five Business Technology Predictions for 2015 NetEnrich shared five IT predictions that will lead the infrastructure and operations teams of enterprise IT in 2015. These trends “are emerging as a result of disruptive and innovative technologies such as big data, cloud computing, mobility, social and virtualization,” stated Raju Chekuri, CEO of NetEnrich, a provider of…

  • xMatters Revamps Its Channel Strategy

    xMatters—which recently unveiled the latest release of its On-Demand cloud platform for communications-enabled business processes for monitoring and alerting—is making moves to update its channel strategy to reflect the changing landscape in the monitoring industry, combined with enterprise’s move to hybrid IT environments. As a result, xMatters is finding that it needs to change its…

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