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Channel News Briefs: Week of July 20
Tech Data Adds McAfee SaaS Offerings to Solutions Store McAfee will provide its software-as-a-service (SaaS) security offerings to Tech Data’s channel of solution providers through the company’s TDCloud business unit. The cloud-based security offerings, including McAfee’s SaaS Email Protection, SaaS Email Archiving and SaaS Web Protection, will be available through Tech Data’s Solutions Store. In addition,…
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Making a Case for Big Data in the Public Sector
Big data in public sector Government Readiness 57% of survey respondents believe the government is ready for big data. Only 10% of survey respondents said they rely on robust analytics and data processing to make informed decisions. Use-Case Scenarios 32% of respondents said they use insights from data to improve day-to-day operations while 19% obtain…
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SMBs Struggle With Data Protection’s Rising Complexity
SMBs Struggle With Data Protection’s Rising Complexity IT Infrastructure Deployed The IT infrastructure landscape has never been more complex: 79% of respondents still have physical servers on premise and more than 60% have virtual servers, as well. What’s more, 37% already have a mix of physical, virtual and cloud deployments. Hypervisor Usage When it comes…
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Sorting Through Big Data’s Challenges Will Take Time
Big Data challenges Too Much Big Data Variety The variety of big data may not be the spice of life after all. In fact, 71% of the data scientists surveyed said new types of data make developing analytics apps more difficult. Biggest Big Data Challenge Big data analytics is more complex than most appreciate: 40%…
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AMI Looks to the Channel for Storage Partners
As a provider of storage systems on an OEM basis to some of the largest companies in the industry, American Megatrends Inc. enjoyed years of profitability just by focusing mainly on manufacturing, rather than selling storage. But as is often the case in this business, the larger vendors in IT inevitably look to build their…
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Channel News Briefs: Week of June 29
Okta Unveils Tiered Channel Partner Program Okta has revamped its Okta Solution Providers (OSP) partner program with a new tiered structure and program enhancements. The OSP program increases support and benefits for qualified partners to help drive business in the enterprise security market with cloud-based identity-management services. The new four-tiered structure allows Okta to scale the program…