Features

Features

• Channel execs grapple with IT security staffing challenges

  Channel firms say security talent is hard to find and expensive to acquire. Learn how executives are overcoming the cybersecurity skills gap.  Continue Reading

• Will digital whiteboards put partners in the black?

  Channel partners may find a resurgent whiteboard market with large IT vendors making a splash, but they will need to get a handle on products' emerging functionality.  Continue Reading

• Facebook collaboration tool leans on channel partners

  Facebook Workplace, a collaboration platform targeting the enterprise, is tapping channel partners for help in deploying the system and integrating it with other applications.  Continue Reading

• Federal IT budget: Look for security, cloud spending in 2018

  Industry executives cited an uptick in federal IT procurement activity during the government's fiscal fourth quarter and expected FY 2018 to feature security and cloud investments.  Continue Reading

• Cloud services offerings expand via acquisition activity

  The growing need for multi-cloud deployment has inspired cloud solution providers to expand their service portfolios through acquisitions and partnerships.  Continue Reading

• Why TIC Gums chose a cloud computing disaster recovery plan

  After a manufacturer recognized the risks in having its systems and data located onsite, the company implemented a cloud computing disaster recovery plan with the help of a channel partner.  Continue Reading

• MSP sales: Cloud business calls for new tactics, skills

  This rise of cloud computing is transforming the MSP sales landscape, cloud solutions providers and other channel partners. Here is how to cope.  Continue Reading

• Google cloud migration: Agosto helps e-commerce firm retool

  A Google channel partner's cloud adoption project used migration as a springboard to modernize a customer's core application via multi-tenancy and containerization.  Continue Reading

• Cisco strategy bets on software to deal with cloud shift

  Cisco has embarked on a technology transition as it deals with the effects of cloud computing and the virtualization of networking functions via software.  Continue Reading

• Cloud migration services: Use a cloud enablement company to get started

  Cloud enablement companies, such as PlumChoice, BitTitan and NetEnrich, have emerged to help small channel firms provide the migration services their customers are asking for.  Continue Reading

• Clients migrating to the cloud? Prepare for these challenges

  Cloud migration is far from simple: Channel partners should consider the challenges of workload allocation, application design and system dependencies when pursuing projects.  Continue Reading

• Dell and EMC merger poses a challenging transformation

  The Dell and EMC merger presents a multitude of opportunities for market domination -- if the integrated companies can modernize a highly complex portfolio.  Continue Reading

• Taking a look at the HPE hybrid IT strategy

  Since Hewlett Packard Enterprise's creation in 2014, the company's evolution has been marked by buyouts and divestments, bringing it to its current focus on hybrid IT.  Continue Reading

• Microsoft: Intelligent cloud, digital business remaking firm

  Microsoft appears set to pursue a greater focus on vertical markets and technology partners as it takes on digital transformation and cloud computing at the enterprise edge.  Continue Reading

• Citrix: Cloud platform, analytics among key vendor trends

  Citrix is pursing cloud, analytics and hyper-converged infrastructure as the virtualization and networking company continues its transition under new leadership.  Continue Reading