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How many different environments do your applications get deployed to?
Categories: News and TrendsHow many different environments do your applications get deployed to? Most go through multiple stages What types of releases do you perform the most? Iterative approaches start to dominate How do you deploy to the following environments? Lots of manual work still going on No Title How complex are your typical production deployments? For complex… Read more
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Time to Open Your Own App Store
Categories: News and TrendsAs more customers become familiar with the concept of an “app store” in their personal lives many of them are starting to ask solution providers to provide a similar type capability for their corporation. Like most things IT, that’s a lot easier said than done. But Michael Ni, chief marketing officer for Avangate, a provider… Read more
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IBM Partners Using PureSystems to Capture Intellectual Property
One of the problems that solution providers have is that much of their intellectual property is inside the heads of their employees. When those employees leave, they tend to take a fair amount of that expertise with them. Marie Wieck, IBM general manager for WebSphere, says that one of the more interesting use cases that… Read more
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Channel Starts to Get Comfortable in the Cloud
As it becomes more apparent that cloud service providers are increasingly going to rely on channel partners to take their service to market, the channel as a whole is getting more comfortable with the entire concept. According to Jason Bystrak, sales director for the North American Services Division at Ingram Micro, solution providers attending the… Read more
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Managed Cloud Services Come to the Channel
Given the fact that the distinction between managed hosting and cloud computing is relatively thin, it should not be all that surprising to see solution provider starting to offer managed cloud computing services. What is surprising is that more of them are starting to wrap channel programs around those services as part of an effort… Read more
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Appreciating the GRC Gift Horse to the Channel
While nobody likes the idea of increased regulation, the fact remains that recent spike in the number of rules that organizations need to comply with has been by and large a very good thing for the channel. In addition to creating any number of governance, risk management and compliance (GRC) opportunities, every time and organization… Read more