Recent Articles
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Intel Gives MSPs a Small Business Advantage
One of the more frustrating aspects of IT from the perspective of solution providers in channel is the number of potential customers that don’t use their services. Customers complain all the time about how systems are difficult to manage. At the same time, there’s obviously no shortage of solution providers more than willing to help.…
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NetApp Extends UCS Partnership with Cisco
While EMC enjoys a close relationship with Cisco via their Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) joint venture, there’s nothing that says customers have to use EMC storage alongside Cisco Unified Computing Systems. In fact, competition to attach storage systems to a Cisco UCS server platform that continues to enjoy brisk sales is fierce. And now NetApp wants to…
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HP Leverages VANs to Create Hybrid Cloud Ecosystems
Hewlett-Packard is taking the concept of “cloudbursting” a step further starting today with the deployment of software-defined networking technologies that make it much easier for application workloads to dynamically move between data centers. Bethany Mayer, senior vice president and general manager for HP Networking, says new Virtual Application Network (VAN) technology being launched today will…
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Healthcare Sector Is Finally Ripe for Change
Electronic healthcare records (EHR) are always at the top of the healthcare IT agenda these days. Healthcare organizations of all sizes are trying to figure out how the can qualify for the $19.2 billion the Federal government is making available to fund the development of EHR systems via the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).…
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Tapping into the Apple iPad Channel Opportunity
While there is certainly a lot of buzz these days about anything and everything to do with the Apple iPad, the number of business applications that take real advantage of the Apple tablet has been limited. There are a few business intelligence applications that make use of the Apple iPad touch screen to deliver reports…
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Survey: SMB Customers Making the Shift to the Cloud Now
The fundamental challenge solution providers in the channel face as it relates to cloud computing is that many of the bread and butter applications that their business is built around are the ones that are heading for cloud. A recent survey of 3,000 small-to-medium business (SMB) organizations with between two to 250 employees conducted by…