Tag: services
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The Future of IT Services
Historically providing IT services has always been a business where the cost of labor was fairly high. But as IT continues to evolve it’s apparent that as the devices become more instrumented the easier it’s becoming to automate the IT services process. The latest case in point is Nexsan, a provider of storage systems that… Read more
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Pressure to Take Sides in Virtualization Wars Starts to Mount
There is no shortage of virtual machine platforms these days, but from a market perspective the dominant three are VMware, Citrix and Microsoft. What’s still a little unclear at this point is to what degree are solution providers going to need to support all three platforms. In general, the Citrix Xen platform tends to be… Read more
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Data Migration Services Escalate Storage Wars Across the Channel
Given the immense amount of scrutiny that IT storage budgets are getting it may come as little surprise that there is an intense amount of infighting going on these days between solution providers representing different storage vendors. But what may come as a surprise is how much easier it’s becoming for customers to switch storage… 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
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HP Leverages VANs to Create Hybrid Cloud Ecosystems
Hewlett-Packard is taking the concept of “cloudbursting” a step further starting today with the deployment of software-defined networking technologies that make it much easier for application workloads to dynamically move between data centers. Bethany Mayer, senior vice president and general manager for HP Networking, says new Virtual Application Network (VAN) technology being launched today will… Read more