Recent Articles
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New Intel Core Systems Create Management Play for the Channel
Solution providers today often find themselves caught between two diametrically opposed forces. It’s clear to them that many employees at the organization they service would like access to the latest and greatest PC technologies. But the internal IT department is constrained by both budget and ability to actually manage the environment. Almost invariably, end users…
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The Evolution of Unified Communications as a Service
Just about everybody in the channel would agree that unified communications have been a frustrating experience. While the technology holds great promise, the effort required to get customers to first test and then actually deploy it can be nothing short of herculean. But all that may be about to finally change for the better now…
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HP CEO Meg Whitman Says Consumerization of IT Will Define Company
The new CEO of Hewlett-Packard says the future of Hewlett-Packard will be shaped by a consumerization of IT phenomenon that simultaneously plays to the company’s strengths both the enterprise and consumer technology markets. Speaking at a Global Influencers Summit 2012 conference in Shanghai today, HP CEO Meg Whitman says the company is doubling down on…
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Software-Defined Networking Technologies to Reshape Market
Software-defined networking (SDN) may be one of the hottest new buzz words floating around the channel in the wake of the Interop 2012 conference this week. But while most of the SDN conversation is focused on reducing the cost of managing enterprise networks by managing them at a much higher level of abstraction, the implications…
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Promoting Virtualization Diversity
One assumption that is often made about desktop virtualization is that whatever is on the back end of the solution is going to be from the same vendor on the front end. But it turns out that right now the most popular desktop virtualization combination is Citrix on the client and VMware on the server.…
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Making Sense of the Mobile Windows PC Mess
Given that large swaths of the channel are dependent on PC sales the current state of the PC industry is of more than passing concern for most solution providers. With the rising popularity of the systems from Apple such as the Apple iPad and the MacBook Air more than a few solution providers are concerned…