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Keeping The Sales Force Trained And Informed

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No business can grow and thrive without people to push the benefits of its products or services to potential customers.

Yet the information technology industry makes the art of sales more challenging with seemingly never-ending change, especially for solution providers and the increased emphasis on generating recurring revenue.

Solution providers also have an advantage of being able to sell the offerings of several vendors.

Intel Security Spin-Out Thrills Partners, Analysts

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(Note: This article was originally posted to CRN.com Sept.8.)

Patrtners and analysts are ecstatic after Intel said it would spin out its security business to become a stand-alone vendor, controlled by a private equity firm.

“It’s a good thing for us. We’re fired up for the McAfee split,” said Jamie Shepard, senior vice president of health care and strategy at Addison, Texas-based Lumenate.

Q&A: How We Saved Our Client Money By Unifying Its Communications System

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Rip Out The Old, Install The New

Looking to grow, Rainier Title, a provider of real estate title insurance and escrow services in the Seattle area, wanted to bring its communications system into the modern era by eliminating a patchwork quilt-style of disconnected analog and digital phone systems across its 11 offices.

Flash Memory Has Come a Long Way, Baby

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Life moves pretty fast when Moore’s Law is driving things. Computing power has increased exponentially over the past several decades, helping to deliver increased productivity and efficiencies in the workplace. Alongside the regular boosts in processing power we’ve witnessed, advances in memory and storage technologies have made it possible to harness that horsepower to create slim, light, blazing-fast mobile devices, PCs, and servers.

Samsung’s Expanded Windows 10 Pro Portfolio: Built for Speed and Portability

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Today’s business customers run a hodgepodge of platforms and OSes – Windows 10, Android, Chrome, Blackberry, Linux, Mac OS, iOS, and more. Mobile executives might have a Galaxy S7 phone in their pocket, an iPad in their carry-on bag, and a Lenovo ThinkPad in their check-in luggage. It’s a diversity that’s fueled largely by the increasing complexity of IT operations, the mobility movement, and the ever-more-popular BYOD trend.

Blog Roundup: Windows 10? Or New Hardware?

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What’s on the minds of solution providers? ITBestOfBreed scours their blogs in search of perspectives that can help broaden your knowledge of information technology issues.

Here are three recent posts, focusing on Windows 10 upgrades, cybersecurity and service-defined enterprises.  

SOFTCHOICE: Upgrade to Windows 10? Or buy new hardware?

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