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Three tips for dealing with the IT labor shortage

IT companies should seek out motivated workers, commit to continuous learning and invest in employee well-being to minimize the effects of the IT labor shortfall. Continue Reading
MSP ticketing system: Autotask's new UI draws round of applause

Autotask's new ticketing system user interface ranked among the top developments at the company's annual partner conference. Channel companies tell why. Continue Reading
Software robots transforming IT services industry

IT service providers, particularly large, global outsourcing firms, are helping customers deploy robotic process automation and also using the technology internally. Continue Reading

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Mitel looking at life as a private entity

The unified comms player has accepted an offer that would see it go into private hands

The difference between profits and revenues

With numbers thrown around making revenue look like the main achievement Billy MacInnes turns his attention to profits

Ambitious Nuvias cuts ribbon on Woking HQ

The distributor has pointed to its move as being evidence of its growth ambitions across EMEA

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Despite GDPR penalties, cloud partners note complacency among clients

Cloud firms work busily to align their businesses with Europe's data protection legislation, but many observe a lack of urgency ...

Hybrid cloud cost optimization an ongoing opportunity for partners

For all its virtues, the hybrid cloud model can create a number of cloud cost optimization and management headaches for customers...

Cloud for healthcare: What is the role of IT channel firms?

Healthcare providers are under greater pressure to pursue digital transformation this year. Learn how partners can aid cloud for ...

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Akamai touts network perimeter security shifts, zero-trust model

As network perimeter security grows less practical, Akamai talks at RSA Conference about moving beyond firewalls to improve ...

Women in cybersecurity discuss hiring, advice and being mentors

A panel of women cybersecurity professionals at the RSA Conference discussed ways to find the best job candidates, the best ...

Government hacking tactics questioned at OURSA

The ACLU's Jennifer Granick took government hacking to task at the OURSA Conference this week, calling out mass surveillance ...

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Three multi-cloud deployment tactics that work

Use standardization, as well as a centralized management tool and independent monitoring tool, to deploy a multi-cloud ...

Morro Data adds replication, Azure Active Directory support

Startup Morro targets SMB customers with a CloudNAS 3.0 file storage update that adds replication capabilities and support for ...

SSDs vs. HDDs: When is all-flash storage overkill?

The SSD vs. HDD analysis isn't as simple as it looks. SSD prices are falling, and capacities increasing. But HDDs are still a ...

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Top application delivery controllers offer range of options

The leading ADC vendors offer a broad range of physical and virtual appliances, with varying throughput levels and diverse ...

New Accedian SkyLIGHT PVX has root-cause analytics

Accedian Networks has launched its first product from the Performance Vision acquisition. SkyLIGHT PVX includes network ...

New CDN services give providers an edge in WAN marketplace

With enterprises moving workloads to public cloud, the CDN services market could see growth in security and performance services,...

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Users demand more from containers in cloud

Technology is always advancing, but it needs to march in the direction that users want. Containers are maturing, but plenty of IT...

IaaS and PaaS blurred lines increase lock-in risks

There are three distinct cloud service categories: IaaS, PaaS and SaaS. However, IaaS and PaaS are getting a little too close, ...

Single pane of glass for multi-cloud management still elusive

Unified management for multi-cloud remains a work in progress. Vendors have yet to produce the perfect single-pane-of-glass tool ...

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GDPR data protection edicts make good data governance a must

The European Union's new GDPR law puts the onus on companies to ensure that their data governance and management practices enable...

GDPR rules can spur broader steps to protect sensitive data

Companies need to make compliance with GDPR's requirements on managing personal data a priority, but they should also work to ...

Data integrity protection spurs greater security spending

As hacking, ransomware and malware attacks mount, companies place big data protection and integrity among the primary reasons for...

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Cambridge Analytica-Facebook case shows need for ethical data mining

Ethical data collection practices are becoming even more important, as cases like Cambridge Analytica's misuse of Facebook data ...

Rethinking analytics processes spurs enterprise innovation

By taking a fresh look at the makeup of their analytics organizations, enterprises can innovate their business models and take ...

Diversified data sets for analytics deliver top results

Analytics teams should focus on data diversity to ensure that their projects deliver the most meaningful insights -- but they ...