Recent Articles
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iIT, Artisan Deal Promotes Channel-Only Offering
Sharing a channel-only philosophy, independenceIT (iIT) and Artisan Infrastructure have formed a partnership that gives their channel partners more control over their cloud service offerings and pricing models. Together, iIT’s Cloud Workspace Suite, a desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) offering, and Artisan’s wholesale infrastructure as a service (IaaS) are expected to help drive recurring revenue for channel partners.…
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Ingram Micro Offers Custom Computing to Partners
Ingram Micro now offers its Artizen portfolio of customizable high-performance computing (HPC) solutions and services to all of its U.S. channel partners to help them address increased demand for greater computing power and customization. The portfolio was initially introduced in limited release in mid-2012, but channel partners now have access to the entire portfolio, including…
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Channel Eyes Alternatives to the Windows Desktop
With the vast majority of IT organizations still running Windows XP, it’s apparent that a significant upgrade opportunity lies ahead for the channel. What’s not clear is what form that upgrade will take. While Microsoft still dominates the corporate desktop, alternatives such as the Apple Macintosh and Google Apps have clearly gained momentum. Microsoft, meanwhile,…
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Volatile Clouds Create Channel Opportunities
Not all clouds are created equal, which helps explain why there are so many of them. Many solution providers expect to see growth of cloud computing in the channel, but they wonder which vendors to go with. Like most emerging markets, the cloud computing space is volatile. IBM, for example, recently surprised many in the…
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Arrow Launches ArrowSphere Cloud Offerings
Arrow Electronics has introduced to the North American market its ArrowSphere cloud service brokerage and aggregation platform, which was initially launched in Europe last year. The North American launch includes a new suite of services designed to help Arrow’s service provider partners build and scale their cloud practices by simplifying the way they sell cloud…
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Red Hat Preps Channel Partners for OpenStack
As a framework for managing instances of cloud computing, there’s a lot momentum behind OpenStack. However, as a set of products that the average IT organization could deploy today, there’s still a lot of work to do in terms of turning OpenStack into an opportunity for the channel. At the recent Red Hat Summit 2013…
