Recent Articles
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Software-Defined Networking Technologies to Reshape Market
Software-defined networking (SDN) may be one of the hottest new buzz words floating around the channel in the wake of the Interop 2012 conference this week. But while most of the SDN conversation is focused on reducing the cost of managing enterprise networks by managing them at a much higher level of abstraction, the implications…
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Making Sense of the Mobile Windows PC Mess
Given that large swaths of the channel are dependent on PC sales the current state of the PC industry is of more than passing concern for most solution providers. With the rising popularity of the systems from Apple such as the Apple iPad and the MacBook Air more than a few solution providers are concerned…
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Advanced Servers to Force New Conversations about IT
Whether it involves IBM, Cisco or Hewlett-Packard a common theme has emerged in recent months as it relates to IT spending. Customers will invest more in IT if only IT wasn’t so difficult to manage. Studies show that customers on average spend 70 percent of their budget on maintaining the systems they have. Logic dictates…
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BPM Opportunities for the Channel Remain Largely Untapped
Success for solution provider is all about driving change. Unless customers have some motivation to develop a new business capability or enhance an existing one, they really have no reason to invest in new IT systems. Unfortunately, while most solution providers have a wealth of technology skills, they usually don’t have much insight into a…
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Gaining and Maintaining Application Control in the Coming PaaS Era
Over the years a huge percentage of the custom application development being done by corporations has been outsourced to the channel. Whether it’s modernizing COBOL applications using developers in India or creating mobile computing applications by relying on the expertise of independent application development houses, the channel in many ways dominates application development these days.…
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ADCs at the Center of the Cloud Computing Universe
Most solution providers are familiar with the role application delivery controllers (ADCs), also known as load balancers, play within the data center. As the ADC analyzes application traffic it flows that traffic to the appropriate server. As important a function as that is within the data center, the rise of cloud computing is starting to…