Tag: Microsoft
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Insight Into the Evolution of Solution Providers
After serving almost nine years as general manager of U.S. Partner Sales at Microsoft, Eric Martorano has joined Intermedia as senior vice president of worldwide sales. Intermedia, which bills itself as “a one-stop shop for cloud business applications,” gained its foothold in the cloud space selling Office 365 applications, and is focused on the channel… Read more
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The SaaS Application War Will Escalate in 2017
At the start of the New Year, the one thing that channel partners can count on is that the level of competition between providers of software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications is about to become fiercer by several orders of magnitude. The two big drivers of the competition are going to be Salesforce and Oracle. Salesforce CEO Marc… Read more
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Digital Business Will Increase IT Spending in 2017
Investments in IT have clearly been a major driver of the modern economy. But as solution providers gear up for 2017, the biggest opportunity is not going to be centered around any one technology as much as it will focus on turning visions of digital business transformations into reality. Most organizations have historically employed IT… Read more
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Data Gravity Starts to Pull the Cloud Channel
It’s been well over 10 years since cloud computing first emerged, and, in that time, the cloud has clearly had a major impact on all things IT. But the true weight of that impact may just beginning to make its presence felt. As more data pours into various clouds, the providers of those cloud computing… Read more
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VMware and AWS: Frenemies in the Cloud
For a long time now, VMware and Amazon Web Services have been antagonists in the age the cloud. AWS is built on an implementation of the open-source Xen hypervisor that VMware views as a threat to its enterprise empire. What’s more, AWS has been calling for the obsolescence of all forms of on-premise IT since… Read more
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Windows Server 2016 Challenge Looms Over Microsoft
Categories: News and TrendsWith Windows Server 2016 becoming generally available later this month, Microsoft needs to help channel partners convince small and midsize businesses that it’s time to upgrade their server operating systems or move to the cloud. A recent survey conducted by Spiceworks highlights the extent of the challenge. Only 20 percent of IT pros surveyed say… Read more