Recent Articles
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Making Sense of Desktop Virtualization
More than a few IT organizations have made the plunge into desktop virtualization only to discover that this latest IT cure can easily wind up being worse than the disease. The issues that many of solution providers wind up confronting range from the fact that the costs associated with implementing certain types of desktop virtualization…
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Virtual Appliances Simplify Shift into Cloud Storage
Most IT organizations are not particularly good at managing data or, for that matter, IT in general. Not only is there a lot of redundant data strewn all across the enterprise; a lot of data that isn’t particularly important winds up clogging up expensive primary storage systems. Obviously, this creates an opportunity for solution providers…
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Joint Ventures: A Recipe for Failure in the Channel
Joint ventures are tricky by definition. While they tend to start off with much promise over time they almost always wither and die. The reasons for this are varied. Usually, it comes down to conflicting internal agendas. But sometimes unforeseen external forces also wind up making the joint venture untenable. Such is the case with…
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Analytics Applications Emerge as Next Big Thing in IT
On the plus side IBM is convinced that the combination of Big Data and analytics application software is laying the foundation for a major economic expansion. On the downside, prospective customers are a little short on analytics expertise and most IT organizations are still not familiar with Big Data technologies such as Hadoop. IBM is…
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Rethinking the Management of IT Services
Most solution providers by now have taken note of the fact that there are lots of changes taking place these days in the data center. Not only are whole data centers being consolidated, the job functions are evolving thanks to tighter integration across the server, storage and networking components that make up the data center.…
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Removing the Obstacles to Unified Communications
Unified communications has always been a space that offered a lot of promise to the channel. But given all the complexities and components involved in actually creating a solution, customers have been moving to embrace unified communications at a modest pace. Hewlett-Packard wants to change the pace of adoption of unified communications with a new…