Tag: IT

  • Project Managers, at $84K, Are Best-Paid IT Consultants

    Channel Insider Staff

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    As an IT consultant, do you know how much you should be making? This depends, of course, on many variables that are not always easily gauged: experience, skills, industry, education, size and location of company. PayScale, Inc. has created a business model based on providing potential employees with the data needed to negotiate the best… Read more

  • IT Execs Refuse to Turn Green

    IT Execs Refuse to Turn Green

    Sara Driscoll

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    IT executives are not ready to adopt a green technology strategy for their storage environments. This is according to a survey of 324 IT executives commissioned by storage software vendor BridgeHead Software. The report revealed that only 35 percent of respondents said their storage technology choices take into consideration environmental friendliness. However, a whopping 88… Read more

  • ITIL Change Every Thing in IT Services

    Michael Vizard

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    There’s a structured approach to the delivery of IT services that is starting to gain momentum among Global 2000 companies that could have significant implications for solution providers in the channel. This structured methodology is called the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), which has recently been updated to a version three release that seeks to… Read more

  • Coping with IT Personnel Shortage in the Channel

    Michael Vizard

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    One of the chronic problems facing solution providers these days is an inability to attract skilled IT talent because there is a general shortage of people available with the right skill sets. This is a problem that is endemic to the whole industry because IT organizations within end user companies are reporting the same problem,… Read more

  • Vendors Need to Step Up to IT Needs of the Next Generation Channel

    Vendors Need to Step Up to IT Needs of the Next Generation Channel

    Michael Vizard

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    As the channel wrestles with new business models and an increased need to collaborate on major projects that increasingly are going to be global in nature, one has to wonder if the industry as a whole has the information technology infrastructure in place to really support the direction the channel as whole seems to be… Read more

  • Tech Data and Managed Services: Taking It Easy

    Pedro Pereira

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    While other distributors in the past year have claimed a stake in the managed services market, Tech Data continues to weigh what the distributor’s precise role in this new model should be. The Clearwater, Fla., company is the world’s second largest IT distributor, behind Ingram Micro Inc., of Santa Ana, Calif. The two rivals often… Read more