Tag: cloud

  • Top 11 Cloud Managed Service Providers

    Top 11 Cloud Managed Service Providers
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    Organizations en masse are adopting cloud infrastructure to compete with the ever-changing digital landscape. In the shift from legacy systems and physical, on-premises hardware, many companies are ill-equipped to make a more profound commitment to cloud workloads or don’t have the internal resources to do so effectively. Like managed services of decades past, big-name consultancies… Read more

  • Cloud First: Accenture’s $3B Commitment to the Cloud

    Cloud First: Accenture’s $3B Commitment to the Cloud
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    By Chris Ehrlich NEW YORK — At any moment, 70,000 global employees are working on the cloud in Accenture’s Cloud First group. Accenture is investing $3 billion over three years in the multi-service group, starting last fall, to help clients across all industries become cloud-first businesses and accelerate their digital transformation. Accenture’s Cloud First group… Read more

  • Maintaining On-Premises IT Infrastructure in Age of the Cloud

    Maintaining On-Premises IT Infrastructure in Age of the Cloud
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    Many channel partners claim “break-fix” business is dead. But the need for maintenance, service and support for on-premises IT equipment and software is still alive and well. That opportunity can still be monetized without having to make extensive investments in tooling up. Here’s how. There’s an old joke about getting a great deal on a… Read more

  • Tech Data Aims to Become the Distributor of the Future

    Tech Data Aims to Become the Distributor of the Future
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    The great paradox of the channel these days is that even as more workloads shift into the cloud, the number of IT products moving through the channel continues to expand. That rate of consumption, however, creates demand for advanced tech skills that most IT organizations and channel partners are having a hard time finding. To… Read more

  • Cogeco Peer 1 Launches Partner Portal for Channel

    Cogeco Peer 1 Launches Partner Portal for Channel
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    Business solution providers are coming to the realization that one-size-fits-all partner programs don’t always meet the needs of all their channel partners. One company moving toward customized partner programs is Cogeco Peer 1, which recently launched its new Cogeco Peer 1 Partner Portal and three new partner programs. The programs’ goals, according to the company—which… Read more

  • Revenge of the Relational Database

    Revenge of the Relational Database
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    There’s been a lot of buzz lately about the rise of various types of database engines, collectively referred to as NoSQL databases. Regardless of whether it’s a Hadoop, key/value store or document database, they all support SQL queries in one form or another. That leads to one question: Are these database engines a passing fad… Read more