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Channel News Briefs: Week of June 1, 2014
Tech Data Delivers Integrated Data Protection for SMBs The newly launched Tech Data Integrated Data Protection Solution targets small and midsize businesses (SMBs). The integrated product offering includes IBM’s PowerLinux, IBM’s V3700 Storwize products and the new IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Software Entry for midsize organizations. Offered on a single stock-keeping unit (SKU), the data…
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Xangati Expands Its Channel Program
As fundamentally important as it is for a solution provider to make money by selling a particular product, there are a handful of IT management tools that, when properly employed, create opportunities that go well beyond the price of the software. Looking to capitalize on that simple fact, Xangati has extended its channel program to…
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Managing Storage in a Software-Defined World
While just about everybody would tend to agree that storage needs to be simpler to manage, very few people seem to agree what’s the best way to go about making that happen. As a result, it seems like every vendor these days is bandying about the term software-defined storage (SDS), but what that means is…
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Signing On for the Electronic Document Opportunity
Electronic documents The Prevalence of Scanning A full 90% report they do some scanning of forms and documents. Text Recognition Is a Significant Opportunity Of the 73% of respondents who specifically scan forms, only half use text recognition to capture data. A quarter only scan to archive and the remaining quarter scan images, but also…
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New Class of Channel Players Emerges in Cloud Age
Now that there are solution providers that are completely born of the cloud in that most of the IT services they provide are dependent on multiple cloud services, it makes sense that we would start to see distributors born of the cloud, as well. SaaSMax aims to cater to the needs of a new class…
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Avnet, EMC Aim to Make Private Clouds Cheaper for SMBs
In an effort to solve the technology and cost challenges of small businesses looking to move to the private cloud, Avnet Technology Solutions teamed up with EMC to deliver channel-ready products for small businesses following the launch of EMC’s VNXe3200 storage platform and EMC ScaleIO architecture. These cloud appliances deliver the benefits of private clouds…
