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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.…

  • Rightsizing the Cloud Service Provider

    One of the issues that solution providers have with investing in the cloud is all the money needed upfront to create a cloud computing service. The amount of capital required effectively puts building cloud computing platforms out of reach for many solution providers, which results in them reselling services built by somebody else. The trouble…

  • Playing the IT Services Name Game

    There’s a lot of money to be made in providing IT services provided your organization has the wherewithal to invest in hiring the people that have the skills required to deliver them. For that reason many solution providers have opted to simply resell services provided by vendors, even though that tends to detract from the…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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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