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Taking Channel Marketing Up a Web 2.0 Level
If solution providers wait for vendors to figure out that there are more sophisticated ways to market solutions using Web 2.0 technologies, we may well be on to Web 4.0 before the channel see any actual benefits. A good example of how Web 2.0 plat (More)
CA Outlines Data Management Strategy
One thing that seems to be abundantly clear at this point is that data deduplication and replication have become features of data storage products. CA pretty much led the way on this, with recent offerings from More)
Review: DataCove takes the Pain out of Email Archiving
Email archiving is becoming increasingly important for more and more enterprises. The need for archiving solutions is being driven by complicated compliance requirements and the ability to perform data forensics as part of an audit. DataCove is looki (More)
Unified Communications Comes of Channel Age
One of the historic problems with unified communications is how disjointed this set of technologies has really been. Most customers are really still unsu (More)
The Evolution of Data Center Processing Units
Anybody selling IT infrastructure in the channel these days knows that great change is upon us. There is a shift towards pre-integrated servers that come complete with storage and switches that are being heavily promoted under the concept of data cen (More)
Mobile Computing Mania Creates Channel Opportunity
When it comes to PC computing these are the best and worst of times for solution providers in the channel. The good news, as evidenced by the plethora of systems launched at the More)
Google Smartphone Fails to Set Mobile Channel Free
With much fanfare Google today announced that a Nexus One smartphone is now available directly from Google. On the face of it, this would seem like the opening of the smartphone market, much to the potential (More)
Taking the Long View on Cloud Computing
There’s a lot of debate these days over where to deploy various applications. Some folks think everything should automatically juts become a service in the cloud, while others point to a variety of technical, legal and strategic reasons for why that (More)
How Does AT&T's Penalties Fall Out on the Channel Landscape?
AT&T is experimenting with the idea of giving users “incentives” to reduce their data usage. They claim that only 3% of smart phone users are data hogs, but from my experience and an (More)
How Cloud Computing Changes the Way the Channel Sells
One of the biggest challenges when it comes to selling IT on any level is getting a proof of concept deployment set up in the first place. Customers are generally interested in almost anything a credible solution provider has to say. But before they (More)
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