Recent Articles
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Post-COVID-19 Era Creates Work-From-Everywhere Opportunities for IT Channel
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit last year, many employees grabbed their laptops and headed for what they initially thought might be a few weeks of working from home. After it became apparent that many of them would be working from home for months, there was a rush to buy webcams and microphones to improve video…
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Why Channel Partners Need Automation from IT Vendors
A survey of 211 channel chiefs suggests that the negative impact fragmented channel processes are having on partners is more widely known than many IT vendors care to admit. Conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Model N, a provider of a channel automation platform, the survey identifies the top two obstacles channel executives are…
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Remote work drives up IT hiring
Tech job growth continued for a second month in a row, returning to near pre-COVID-19 levels. And while the shift to remote or work from home (WFH) roles is a contributor, it’s certainly not the only one. Tech companies added 19,500 new jobs in January 2021 per the “The Employment Situation” or “Jobs Report” from…
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Cloud Service Providers & Channel Partners at Odds
The COVID-19 pandemic has obviously had a major impact on the ability of channel partners to engage their end customers. Because most channel partners have been unable to visit a customer in person, they have needed to rely on digital marketing to engage customers more than ever. Most channel partners even in the best of…
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MSP Prospects Finally Start to Brighten
Prospects for managed service providers (MSPs) going into 2021 appear to be rising across a wide range of potential customers. A survey of 1,200 SMB and midmarket business leaders conducted by cloud data recovery specialist Infrascale suggests that the need for greater security is pushing organizations toward MSPs regardless of some recent high-profile breaches involving…
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The Channel Embraces Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
The IT industry can, in many ways, be considered a model of diversity and inclusion. When you think about all the inventors, engineers, software developers, and visionaries from all over the world who have contributed to the development of the core technologies that enable our industry, it truly is a gorgeous mosaic of people from…
