Recent Articles
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The Future of IT Services
Historically providing IT services has always been a business where the cost of labor was fairly high. But as IT continues to evolve it’s apparent that as the devices become more instrumented the easier it’s becoming to automate the IT services process. The latest case in point is Nexsan, a provider of storage systems that…
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Seeing the Larger Big Data Picture
Big Data is one of those mega IT trends that winds up being a gift to the channel that keeps on giving. Beyond the obvious impact of the Big Data on demand for additional storage capacity and the rise of new technologies to implement such as the Hadoop data management platform, one of the more…
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Virtualization Drives Backup and Recovery Opportunities for the Channel
With the rise of virtualization it’s becoming clear that more companies than ever are struggling with backup and recovery and by extension disaster recovery. There are several key issues that IT organizations are struggling to manage, including fundamentals such as the fact that ther amount of processor capacity available to the backup and recovery application…
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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…