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Rooting for Windows 10 in the Channel
With the formal launch of Windows 10 this week, one area that Microsoft partners are really hoping will be addressed is the viability of Microsoft in the mobile computing space. As Apple and Google trounced Microsoft in the mobile space for years, solution providers have had to contend with having to first build solutions that…
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Microsoft’s Channel Strategy: From Cloud to Collaboration
Microsoft cloud collaboration Microsoft’s Channel Strategy: From Cloud to Collaboration Banking on its strong channel business, Microsoft showcased its new and improved mission at the recent Worldwide Partners Conference. Microsoft Aims to Make It Easier to Do Business With Redmond In many of the keynotes held during the kick-off day at WPC, Microsoft executives talked…
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Lenovo, Pivot3 Team Up on Hypercoverged Appliances
As part of an effort to make it simpler for channel partners to sell hyperconverged systems, Pivot3 and Lenovo have announced a partnership in which Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions will make available Lenovo servers and all-flash storage technologies as an appliance the comes pre-packaged with vSTAC OS software from Pivot3. “Our initial thought is to…
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Unitrends to Unveil New Channel Program in Q3
Unitrends Now Selling 100 Percent Through Channel Unitrends implemented a 100-percent channel-driven go-to-market strategy. The new business model is moving millions of dollars in leads to existing partners, and helping the company cultivate new and existing partner relationships, said Unitrends. The business recovery specialist—which recently appointed Mike Dalton senior vice president of worldwide channels and international…
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HP Knows Importance of Open Infrastructure APIs
One of the things IT organizations are most frustrated with is how long it takes them not only to stand up IT infrastructure but also how prone to human error those system configurations really are. To address this issue, providers of IT infrastructure are now embracing REST application programming interfaces (APIs) that essentially turn servers,…
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New Springpath CEO Vows Closer Channel Ties
While there’s a lot of interest in hyperconverged systems these days, the number of IT organizations with enough money on hand to fund a forklift hardware upgrade any time soon is fairly limited. For that reason, interest in software approaches to creating a hyperconverged platform that spans both new and existing IT infrastructure investments is…
