Recent Articles
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Channel News Briefs: Week of Aug. 31
Avnet Services Expands IBM Educational Portfolio The Avnet Services business unit of Avnet Technology Solutions (ATS) is expanding its IBM-related educational offerings. Avnet Services and its partners developed the courses, which will focus on key technical areas, such as AIX, business analytics, content manager, Java, and mobile development (iOS and Android). The courses will initially be…
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Tamr Taps Channel to Market Its Data Access Platform
The biggest limiting factor to big data is finding a way to make all that information accessible to the people who can make the most use of it. To help address that challenge, Tamr developed a platform that uses machine learning algorithms to identify relationships between different types of data sets. Tamr, a startup company…
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Intermedia Extends Cloud’s Appeal to the Channel
More often than not, smaller is better than bigger in the channel. Intermedia, which has 5,000 active partners, has created a niche for itself by providing, among other things, Microsoft Exchange and Office 365 services to the channel, in direct competition with cloud services from Microsoft. Now, Intermedia is trying to extend its appeal in…
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IAM in the Cloud Drives Channel Opportunities, Challenges
The identity access management (IAM) market pretty much languished on-premise. Most IT organizations were fairly content to manage passwords via Microsoft Active Directory. However, with the rise of mobile computing and shadow IT services, all that has fundamentally changed. Now many IT organizations are desperate to leverage IAM services in the cloud to help regain…
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Channel News Briefs: Week of Aug. 24
Ingram Micro Expands Services to Government Channel Partners Ingram Micro has increased its dedicated resources, support services and enablement tools to help its U.S. channel partners address the IT needs of the federal government during the fiscal year-end buying season. To help create bigger opportunities for qualified U.S. channel partners focused on federal government sales,…
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Channel News Briefs: Week of Aug. 17
Arrow Teams Up With Information Builders Information Builders, a provider of business intelligence (BI) and analytics, information integrity and integration solutions, is partnering with Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions to help small companies leverage advanced BI solutions without the involvement of IT. Arrow will distribute Information Builders’ WebFOCUS Express offering, which provides advanced BI benefits typically limited to large…
