Tech Analysis

HCI Solutions: Interest in All Forms Runs High ANALYSIS: Demand for HCI solutions is soaring because they enable IT organizations to reduce the costs of acquiring new platforms and running them.  
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Navigating the Software Licensing Conundrum Software is clearly at the crux of most of the business models solution providers across the channel rely on to sustain their companies. However, there's a lot of room for improvement in how software licenses are managed that would benefit vendors...
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API Provider Plight: Pitfalls Despite Potential ANALYSIS: API providers aim to tap a promising market. Yet the path is riddled with technical and economic disruption brought about by the fast-paced API economy.
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Windows 10 Headwinds to Get Stronger With more than 300 million devices running Windows 10, the latest version of the core operating system on which Microsoft and its channel partners depend for future revenue may seem a success. But a new survey of 900 IT professionals conducted by...
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As Big Data Projects Grow, Security Concerns Do Too Enthusiasm remains high for big data projects, but security concerns are raising their ugly head. A survey of 100 senior IT execs conducted by Gatepoint Research on behalf of data security tools provider Dataguise finds that two-fifths of...
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10 Reasons to Update Legacy Monitoring Tools There is no doubt that companies rely on technology to conduct business. The challenge is that as their digital infrastructures grow and become more complex, the monitoring tools added over the years have become difficult to manage and use together....
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Automation Provides Key to IT Services Success Service providers in the channel need to increase their investments in IT automation to survive, and ultimately thrive, concludes a new study conducted by LogicNow, a provider of IT service management (ITSM) tools delivered via the cloud. Although...
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Big Data Projects Encounter Headwinds Although interest in big data projects remains strong, many organizations are starting to encounter significant headwinds, a new survey of 210 IT executives in North America and Europe shows. Conducted by IDG Research Services on behalf of Capgemini...
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IT Execs and Managers See DR Needs Differently Disaster recovery (DR) is emerging as a business priority as IT executives focus increasingly on data protection and delivering uninterrupted services, according to a report released by disaster recovery-as-a-service provider Bluelock, in...
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Channel Opportunity: Remedying Data Management Woes Data management is a ripe opportunity for solution providers throughout the channel. As the amount of data that organizations need to manage grows exponentially, the majority of IT organizations are in the midst of crafting a new data management...
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15 Important Facts About Business Resilience How resilient is your business? That's what a new survey asks more than 2,000 chief technology officers, chief information officers and other IT professionals. The 2016 State of Resilience report from high availability/disaster recovery (HA/DR)...
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Hyperconvergence Plus SDI Redefine the Data Center The challenge for solution providers is to find ways to tap into the rapidly growing markets for hyperconverged and software-defined infrastructure technologies.
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How Businesses Waste Their Software Investments Many organizations waste a significant share of their enterprise software budgets through unused or underused software, and out-of-compliance software contracts, according to a new report from Flexera Software, a provider of software licensing,...
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How IT Plans to Deploy Windows 10 and ConfigMgr As the use of Windows 10 becomes more widespread in the enterprise, so should Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr), according to a recent survey from Adaptiva, a provider of IT systems management offerings. Because Microsoft is...
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Get Ready for the Rise of Reactive Systems The difference between success and failure for many solution providers across the channel is the ability to see the next big IT thing in time to prepare to take advantage of it. That next big thing might just be "reactive systems," defined as an...
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Why Software Asset Management Matters By failing to provide management, tracking and protection of software assets, businesses are exposing themselves to multiple risks that can lead to security threats and software audits. These risks can be costly and resource-intensive, according to...
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Big Data Opportunities Loom Large for the Channel For the IT channel, big data analytics opportunities abound and could be the proverbial gift that keeps on giving for the rest of this decade and beyond.
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Opportunity: Software Licensing Revenue Recovery A high number of software vendors continue to rely on traditional software licensing models, and most of them know that customers are using their software well beyond the scope of their licensing agreements, according to a new survey conducted by...
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Big Data to Transform Channel Management Vendors are becoming interested in big data analytics platforms that provide insights based on a broader spectrum of data than many of them can collect.
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Self-Service BI Still Has a Little Ways to Go In theory, self-service business intelligence (BI) applications are supposed to make organizations more agile by getting IT out of the way of business users. In reality, most organizations thus far have shown a limited ability to execute on those BI...
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Big Data Starts to Strain Data Warehouse Platforms The data warehouse landscape is rapidly evolving as IT organizations move to embrace big data technologies, such as Hadoop and Apache Spark, according to the findings of a new survey that Researchscape conducted on behalf of Actian, a provider of...
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