Recent Articles
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Oracle Extends Its Cloud Reach in the Channel
Oracle formed an open cloud community and will be making a raft of cloud services available via a two-tier distribution program that includes Tech Data, Arrow Electronics, Avnet and NextGen, Oracle announced at its OpenWorld 2014 conference this week. The company wants the various types of channel partners that are converging on the cloud to…
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Channel News Briefs: Week of Sept. 28
Arrow, Rackspace Ink Distribution Agreement Arrow Electronics added Rackspace, a managed cloud company, to its cloud service portfolio in the United States and Canada. Under the agreement, Arrow solution providers can join the Rackspace reseller program that provides volume discounts, pre- and post-sales support and access to help desk and financing services. The Rackspace managed…
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Born of the Internet of Things, With Help From Intel
Just as new solution providers were founded based on business models made possible by the advent of cloud computing, the same phenomenon is likely to take place as new solution providers come into being to address Internet of things (IoT) opportunities. Looking to provide many of the foundational technologies that will be used to enable…
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Channel News Briefs: Week of Sept 21
Avnet Unveils New Converged Infrastructure Offering Avnet Technology Solutions has introduced its next generation of converged infrastructure offerings powered by the 3rd Generation Intel Core Processors called Ivy Bridge. These new offerings, featuring SAP HANA, Cisco data center technology and industry-leading storage, allow companies to store, process and analyze large data sets in real time. The converged infrastructure…
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Helping Channel Partners Step Up to the Cloud Plate
Most companies today have deployed the cloud in one form or another, but some firms many not have the resources to invest in—or the technical expertise to handle—all the cloud applications they need. In a recent survey, IT professionals said eight in 10 customers need professional services to get started with the cloud. The study,…
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Making the Application Migration to the Cloud
Just about every IT organization these days is wrestling, to one degree or another, with trying to figure out what existing application workloads might actually be able to run in the cloud. With new applications, the decision is relatively straightforward. But most existing applications were not designed to run in the cloud. As such, there…
