What’s on the minds of VARs and solution providers? Each week, ITBestOfBreed takes a trip through their blogs in search of perspectives that can help broaden your knowledge of current information technology issues.

Here are three recent posts.

SWC TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS: If a marketing organization comes calling

Kristen Schmid writes about technologies that are changing the way marketers generate leads. Stay up to date on what’s driving adoption of these tools.

CDW: Hot trends in cloud infrastructure

A solutions architect and his colleagues see three “white-hot areas” in cloud infrastructure: disaster recovery, unified communications and desktop.

UNISYS: Helping your client with innovation

Lots of companies want to innovate. Dwayne Dixon pushes that message – and one more way businesses can help their clients - by recounting a story from his days as a sales rep with IBM.