HP rolls out new quotation system in partnership with channelcentral.net
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Michael Vizard
Mike has more than 25 years of experience covering IT issues in a career that includes serving as Director of Strategic Content and Editorial Director for Ziff-Davis Enterprise, which publishes eWeek, Baseline and CIO Insight. Vizard has also served as the Editor-in-Chief of CRN and InfoWorld. In addition, he served as a senior editor with PC Week, ComputerWorld and Digital Review.
HP Hopes to Resolve Longstanding Special Pricing Issues via iQuote
by Michael Vizard
Tuesday, 28 June 2011
Category The Business of Being a VAR
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Aruba Partners with Microsoft on Wireless Unified Communications
by Michael Vizard
Monday, 27 June 2011
Category Network
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Companies optimize technologies to create larger mobile computing opportunity for the channel
Tags: channel, solution providers, unified communications, wireless networks, Lync server, Microsoft, Aruba Networks
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Systems Management: The Key to Profitability
by Michael Vizard
Friday, 24 June 2011
Category Systems Management
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New advances in systems management have major implications for solution providers in the channel
Tags: networking, Storage, server, channel, ScaleXtreme, solution providers, systems management Read MoreControlling the Middle of the IT Chessboard
by Michael Vizard
Thursday, 23 June 2011
Category Software
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Solution providers need to own the middleware stack to have the most amount of customer influence
Tags: channel, solution providers, Oracle, Red Hat, middleware, IBM
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Cloud Computing as a Means to an End
by Michael Vizard
Wednesday, 22 June 2011
Category Cloud Computing
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Solution providers need to look beyond the commoditization of cloud computing
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by Michael Vizard
Tuesday, 21 June 2011
Category Cloud Computing
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High performance computing (HPC) technologies will go mainstream in the era of the cloud
Tags: channel, solution providers, high performance computing, HPC, Storage, Panasas, Cloud Computing
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Cloud Computing Changes the Managed Services Equation
by Michael Vizard
Monday, 20 June 2011
Category Network
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The managed services emphasis is shifting to the network
Tags: networks, unified communications, hosting provider, MSP, channel, solution providers, Cloud Computing, managed services, Quest Software, PacketTrap
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The Critical Technology Decision for the Channel
by Michael Vizard
Monday, 20 June 2011
Category The Business of Being a VAR
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As solution providers focus more on services, they are starting to look and act more like buyers than sellers
Tags: infrastructure-as-a-service, IaaS, NetEnrich, IT services, Service Leadership Management, channel, solution providers
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CRM in the Cloud Creates Channel Opportunity
by Michael Vizard
Thursday, 16 June 2011
Category Applications
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CRM offers the path of least resistance to the cloud for the channel
Tags: CRM, Microsoft, Salesforce.com, solution providers, channel, open source, Cloud Computing, SugarCRM
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The Selling of the Cloud
by Michael Vizard
Wednesday, 15 June 2011
Category Cloud Computing
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It's hard to sell cloud computing products when customers are still unclear on the concept
Tags: Cloud Computing, Zenoss, Cloud.com, NIST, National Institute for Standards and Technologies, solution provider, channel
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