Recent Articles
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Networking as the Next Great Opportunity for the Channel in the Cloud
The history of computing can be defined by the movement of bottleneck around the data center. Every time a bottleneck appears a massive opportunity emerges for the channel. The next great bottleneck is going to be the networking layer in the cloud. A recent survey of 1,300 IT professionals conducted by Cisco finds that the…
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Assessing the Impact of HP Layoffs
Any time a company such as Hewlett-Packard announces that it intends to lay off 27,000 employees, or 7.7 percent of its workforce, it’s going to be cause some consternation. There is a natural tendency to assume the sky is falling, and while it’s not an ideal situation by any means to put that in some…
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Considering the IBM Watson Possibilities
While the hype surrounding IBM’s Watson project far exceeds any current reality, the implications of the next-generation analytics platform on the channel could be as far reaching as they are profound. IBM has already started a number of pilot projects in vertical sectors such as healthcare that will ultimately transform how those businesses are managed.…
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HP CEO Meg Whitman Says Consumerization of IT Will Define Company
The new CEO of Hewlett-Packard says the future of Hewlett-Packard will be shaped by a consumerization of IT phenomenon that simultaneously plays to the company’s strengths both the enterprise and consumer technology markets. Speaking at a Global Influencers Summit 2012 conference in Shanghai today, HP CEO Meg Whitman says the company is doubling down on…