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Data Protection: Keep It Simple

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EMC’s acquisitions have resulted in a portfolio of industry leading data protection software, including Avamar and NetWorker. Yet, over time as we developed the capabilities of both Avamar and NetWorker, the distinctions between the two have blurred. This made it harder for our partners to determine what product fits what use case.

NPD: U.S. B2B Channel Volumes Rise to More Than $62 Billion, Indicate Steady and Consistent Growth for Market

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For the third consecutive year, U.S. business-to-business (B2B) channel revenue increased, growing almost 5 percent in 2014 at more than $62 billion, according to The NPD Group’s Distributor and Reseller Tracking Services. Over the last four years, B2B channel revenue has added $6.5 billion in sales. PCs, the highest revenue growth category, brought in nearly $11 billion to the B2B market fueled by strong sales of Chromebooks and build-to-order (BTO) PCs.

What the Anthem breach means for healthcare organizations

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The cyber attack on Anthem BlueCross BlueShield is being called the largest data breach ever in the healthcare industry, and a warning of things to come as criminal gangs and even nation states take aim at valuable health data stored by insurers, hospitals, doctors offices and others.

Change: A constant in long-term marketing plans

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But long-term plans are only as good as the potential changes they will help you handle. For instance, as you develop your plan, consider the host of unexpected events that can happen that would alter your path. Examples include: business changes such as mergers, acquisitions and spin-offs; market dynamics changes; organizational changes; corporation priorities; and leadership changes.

Midsized companies to the cloud: tough, but worth it

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For midsized companies, moving to the cloud isn’t easy. Midsized organizations — generally defined those employing anywhere from 50 to 500 people — lack the massive IT departments (or budgets) of large enterprises. Nor do they see the potentially high savings enjoyed by much smaller businesses. On both points, they’re somewhere in the middle.

Addressing the Gaps in Your Customers’ Data Protection Strategy

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The EMC Global Data Protection Index introduced last month shows the business consequences of misaligned data protection strategies. And the survey results also give us a glimpse into disasters waiting to happen from inadequate protection for next generation workloads.

Calling All Solution Providers: New MRR Business Opportunity

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As more and more organizations are embracing SaaS based applications like Salesforce.com, Google Apps and Microsoft Office 365 this presents new monthly recurring revenue (MRR) opportunities for Solution Providers offering cloud backup and recovery services. Organizations need to be able to protect their data that is created and stored in Microsoft Office 365 just like any other enterprise data within their IT environment – especially for those organizations that need to meet strict regulatory and compliance mandates.

Big clients? Give them even bigger cloud benefits

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Remember elephant jokes from when you were young? Q: What time is it when an elephant sits on your watch? A: Time to get a new watch. Seriously, you wouldn’t want even 5 percent of an elephant’s weight sitting on your watch. So why would large enterprises — the elephants of the business world — want to continue spending 5 percent or even more of their revenue on IT?

Big cloud benefits for your smaller clients

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“When you deal with the different levels of company — from enterprise to medium to small — each one is completely different,” says Mike Aquino, director of cloud services at Cetan Corp., a Chesapeake, Virginia-based provider of cloud, collaboration and workload-automation solutions. “They’re all moving to the cloud, but they’re moving for different reasons.”

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