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Rose Fass: Change The Conversation To Get The Change You Want In Your Career

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Rose Fass, founder of the fassforward Consulting Group.

If you want to create change in your career, you have to start changing the conversation.

That's what Rose Fass, founder of the fassforward Consulting Group and author of "The Chocolate Conversation: Lead Bittersweet Change, Transform your Business," said in her opening keynote of the Women of the Channel event in New York City Tuesday.

Pressure Grows To Adopt Software-defined Data Center Tech

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Changes in the business environment and new pressures on IT are pushing businesses to consider moving away from traditional IT infrastructures and towards software-defined data centers where the data center functionality is separated from the underlying hardware to make it more flexible.

That's the message from Stephen Elliot, vice president of cloud and IT infrastructure at IDC, during his Wednesday keynote presentation at this week's NexGen Cloud conference in San Diego.

Sparkhound Bites Into $100 Million Revenue Goal

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Sparkhound CAO Noah Boudreaux

These days, there's no such thing as a short-term business plan for technology solution provider Sparkhound, a Microsoft Gold Partner that cracked CRN's exclusive top solution provider ranking several years ago.

Every investment or process change is scrutinized for long-term implications. If an idea can't scale, it probably isn't happening.

Channel the power of partnering

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With customers moving to the cloud, the challenges facing their channel providers are growing. In fact, over 40 percent of channel providers say the cloud is driving them in new directions, according to a recent survey by CompTIA, a nonprofit trade group. In the same survey, nearly as many channel providers also said their customers are demanding new services and IT delivery models.

4 Things Cloud Users Say They Need from Cloud Providers

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One of the key findings of the Verizon State of the Market: Enterprise Cloud 2014 Report is that 72% of respondents expect to put more than half their workloads (including SaaS) in the cloud by 2017. As more cloud workloads are deployed and become increasingly complex, companies’ expectations of cloud providers are evolving too.

Bad Leadership Habits And How To Overcome Them

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One of my editors years ago had hanging in his office a poster that showed the face of a grey wolf, close-up, with the caption "leadership."

It was assumed that this wolf was the pack's alpha dog, a role this editor filled, or aspired to fill, and an image he wanted to reinforce.

Leadership is a loaded word. Just think about how many leadership quotes you can read online and the wide array of leadership styles and actions all these quips and posters and studies and books either celebrate or put down.

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