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  • Radial OneNote Menu

    Radial OneNote Menu Has been optimized for touch Lync Videoconferencing Integration with Microsoft Office will be much tighter Social Networking with SharePoint Document sharing via social networking Outlook People Card Multiple contacts are transparently joined into one view, reducing distracting duplicates and offering social context. Outlook Bing App Without ever leaving the Outlook window, address…

  • BYOD Security Becomes a Pervasive Issue

    BYOD Security Becomes a Pervasive Issue Percentage of End Users that Use a Personal Device for Work-Related Functions81% admit it, but getting them to actually confess that is another issue all together No Title Will Connect to Company Network via an Unsecured Free or Public Wi-Fi Network31% admit to this risky behavior No Title Have…

  • Time to Open Your Own App Store

    As more customers become familiar with the concept of an “app store” in their personal lives many of them are starting to ask solution providers to provide a similar type capability for their corporation. Like most things IT, that’s a lot easier said than done. But Michael Ni, chief marketing officer for Avangate, a provider…

  • Hadoop Gets a Lot More Channel Friendly

    While the amount of interest in Big Data at the moment may far exceeds the actual number of IT projects being launched using the technology platform; it’s clear that technologies such as Hadoop are creating a significant new opportunity for the channel. Solution providers looking to take advantage of those opportunities should take note of…

  • IBM Partners Using PureSystems to Capture Intellectual Property

    One of the problems that solution providers have is that much of their intellectual property is inside the heads of their employees. When those employees leave, they tend to take a fair amount of that expertise with them. Marie Wieck, IBM general manager for WebSphere, says that one of the more interesting use cases that…

  • Cisco and NetApp Raise FlexPod Channel Game

    Joint ventures are difficult to manage on any level, especially when the nature of the product being offered has a lot of dependencies involved. Solution providers in particular get frustrated having to deal with the same issues over and over again. In that context it’s good to see Cisco and NetApp moving to address some…

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