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How Sales Engineers Drive Quality Leads in the Channel

by Michael Vizard
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Monday, 27 February 2012 Category The Business of Being a VAR 0 Comments
Spiceworks creates social media site around free management tools for IT professionals Tags: Cloud Computing, IT professionals. solution provider. mobile, social media, Spiceworks University, systems management, solution providers, channel, Spiceworks
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What It Takes to Survive

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Friday, 03 February 2012 Category The Business of Being a VAR 2 Comments

(Guest Blogger) Evolve or die: This relentless law of survival governs every individual or organization in the IT industry—CompTIA included.

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by Michael Vizard
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Monday, 23 January 2012 Category The Business of Being a VAR 0 Comments

The coming year offers a lot of opportunity for solution providers in the channel if they play their cards right

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Making IT Service Management Truly Mobile

by Michael Vizard
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Thursday, 22 December 2011 Category The Business of Being a VAR 0 Comments
OnFoce extends IT service management platform to the Apple iPhone Tags: Apple, iPhone, solution providers, channel, OnForce, IT service, IT service management, smartphone
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IT Automation Becomes a Channel Imperative

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Tuesday, 29 November 2011 Category The Business of Being a VAR 0 Comments

Solution providers need to invest in IT automation as a matter of survival

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The Changing SMB Dynamic

by Michael Vizard
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Thursday, 08 September 2011 Category The Business of Being a VAR 0 Comments
As small-to-medium businesses mature there dependency on innovative IT solutions deepens Tags: consumerization of IT, technology projects, virtualization, financing, small-to-medium business, SMB, Symantec, IBM
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The Channel Moves to the Cloud

by Michael Vizard
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Wednesday, 07 September 2011 Category The Business of Being a VAR 0 Comments
CompTIA survey finds solutions providers ratcheting up cloud computing investments Tags: channel, solution providers, CompTIA, Cloud Computing
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The Trouble with IT Staff

by Michael Vizard
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Friday, 02 September 2011 Category The Business of Being a VAR 0 Comments
The cost of IT labor is the often difference between profit and loss in the channel Tags: certifications, Labor Day, IT automation, IT operations, solution providers, UC4 Software, channel
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HP and the Channel Loyalty Oath

by Michael Vizard
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Friday, 19 August 2011 Category The Business of Being a VAR 0 Comments
HP decision to sell PC division raises some difficult questions in the channel Tags: networking, data center, HP PC, Storage, servers, printers, Hewlett-Packard, PC business, solution providers, channel
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The Rise of IT Service Exchanges

by Michael Vizard
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Friday, 12 August 2011 Category The Business of Being a VAR 0 Comments
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