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.

CDW: A shared responsibility for managed security services

Jeff Falcon outlines the reasons why a business should consider sharing the various aspects of securing its infrastructure with managed security service providers.

AVANADE: The pressure to innovate in corporate IT

Do you have a customer under orders to become more strategic while concentrating heavily on maintaining systems and processes? Paul Bowen offers some advice you can pass along.

LOGICALIS: Why might a business outsource its service desk?

Bob Chapp poses five questions that address a company's motivation to put its service desk operations in the hands of a third-party provider.