Tag: VAR
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iIT, Artisan Deal Promotes Channel-Only Offering
Sharing a channel-only philosophy, independenceIT (iIT) and Artisan Infrastructure have formed a partnership that gives their channel partners more control over their cloud service offerings and pricing models. Together, iIT’s Cloud Workspace Suite, a desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) offering, and Artisan’s wholesale infrastructure as a service (IaaS) are expected to help drive recurring revenue for channel partners.… Read more
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Arrow Launches ArrowSphere Cloud Offerings
Arrow Electronics has introduced to the North American market its ArrowSphere cloud service brokerage and aggregation platform, which was initially launched in Europe last year. The North American launch includes a new suite of services designed to help Arrow’s service provider partners build and scale their cloud practices by simplifying the way they sell cloud… Read more
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Security VAR Opportunity Application Delivery Controllers
Categories: SecuritySecurity VAR Opportunity Application Delivery Controllers 42% had a firewall fail due to network-layer Denial of Service (DoS) traffic load in the past 12 months No Title 36% of which failed in application-level DoS attacks. No Title 38% of respondents reported that traditional safeguards understand traffic context and protect against complex, blended threats less than… Read more
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Google Apps VAR Cloud Sherpas Buys Omnetic
Google Apps reseller Cloud Sherpas is expanding to the West Coast, thanks to an acquisition of smaller rival Omnetic. Terms of the deal, announced June 2, were not made public. Cloud Sherpas is the largest reseller of the Google Apps cloud computing collaboration suite in the United States. The Atlanta-based company has migrated more than… Read more
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Starting Your VAR Business: The Best Tax Structure
The birth of a VAR typically goes something like this: the employee of an IT service provider comes to the realization that he can do the same work himself and collect the profit without having to answer to superiors he might disagree with. The employee quits and calls on a few of the clients he… Read more
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Electronic Health Records Mean Big VAR Opportunity
Categories: News and TrendsElectronic health records (EHRs) were on everyone’s mind at the annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society conference recently, a buzzing show that drew a record-breaking crowd of 31,225. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius set the tone for the show in her keynote, in which she gave an update on the state of… Read more