Tag: application
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Rising to the Cloud Application Management Challenge
By now solution providers have noticed that adoption of Google Apps in business environments has become quite substantial. While that might not thrill many folks in the channel given the margins involved in selling Google Apps compared to Microsoft Office, the fact remains that applications of all types are moving into the cloud. But accessing… Read more
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IBM Creates Foundation for Mobile Computing
Looking to give solution providers a leg up in the mobile computing market that is expected to grow from $22 billion in 2012 to $36 billion by 2015, IBM today rolled out Mobile Foundation, a portfolio of IBM mobile computing technologies that are designed to simplify the management of mobile computing and applications in the… Read more
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Gaining and Maintaining Application Control in the Coming PaaS Era
Over the years a huge percentage of the custom application development being done by corporations has been outsourced to the channel. Whether it’s modernizing COBOL applications using developers in India or creating mobile computing applications by relying on the expertise of independent application development houses, the channel in many ways dominates application development these days.… Read more
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IBM Opens Up PureSystems Pattern Recognition Software to Partners
As part of an effort to accelerate adoption of a recently unveiled family of pre-integrated IBM PureSystems platforms that can be optimized to support different types of application workloads, IBM today announced it is making available a new tool that will allow solution providers and their customers to optimize the performance of custom application workloads… Read more
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ADCs at the Center of the Cloud Computing Universe
Most solution providers are familiar with the role application delivery controllers (ADCs), also known as load balancers, play within the data center. As the ADC analyzes application traffic it flows that traffic to the appropriate server. As important a function as that is within the data center, the rise of cloud computing is starting to… Read more
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IT Automation Reduces Technical Services Revenue for the Channel
Major advances in IT automation hold both great promise and significant amounts of peril for solution providers in the channel. Both IBM and Hewlett-Packard have moved to significantly reduce the total cost of IT by introducing new system architectures that make extensive use of IT automation. In the case of IBM, the PureSystems the company… Read more