Recent Articles
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Data Center Consolidation Accelerates with CyrusOne, CoreSite Deals
Consolidation in the data center market, which had already been well underway for the past several years, accelerated this month when two of the top four providers announced they were being acquired for a total of $25 billion. CyrusOne, the world’s third-largest U.S. data center operator, is being bought by investment firms KKR and Global…
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Databricks Helps Partners Tap Its Lakehouse Platform for Data and AI Services
Databricks is making it easier for channel partners to use the vendor’s Lakehouse architecture to help business customers better run their data, analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) workloads using a single platform. The San Francisco-based company’s Lakehouse Platform is designed to combine the key features of data warehouses and those of data lakes (hence the…
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MSPs Are Turning Software Into New Services – As We Predicted
Right in the midst of ramping up our Toolsmith series, our friends at AvePoint have rolled out the results of a survey of 1,000 MSPs, which, among other things, confirms our view turning independent software vendor (ISV) products into services is the best growth path for managed service providers. The AvePoint survey found that when…
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TD Synnex Brings Qualys Security Platform into Its Portfolio
Global IT distributor TD Synnex is adding the Qualys security and compliance platform to its growing list of cybersecurity solutions it offers to resellers, MSPs and managed security service providers (MSSPs). The services firm, which was created this year through the $7.2 billion merger of Synnex and Tech Data, will now include the cloud-native Qualys…
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Kyndryl Hopes to Reverse Sagging Fortunes in Spinoff
Kyndryl hopes its newfound independence from IBM will lead to a turnaround in its sagging revenue. With the spinoff complete as of Nov. 4, the former IBM services business now has the freedom to form partnerships outside of IBM, with the goal of reversing revenues that fell from $21.8 billion in 2018 to $19.35 billion…
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If We’re Not a Channel Anymore, What ARE We?
The channel has changed dramatically and will change even more dramatically in the coming decade. Should we even call it “the channel anymore”? Before we get to a possible answer, let’s set the stage with a quick look back into history. In August 1981 IBM introduced their Personal Computer. Since it was a corporate rule…
