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5 Ways VARs Can Drive Revenue In a Competitive Service Ecosystem

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Today’s value-added resellers (VARs) are facing the fight of their lives. Shrinking margins. Rising costs. Intensifying competition. They’re also grappling with tough mandates (rigorous installation requirements, extensive training) from their OEM partners which further compounds their challenges.

The 10 Most Active VC Investors In The Internet Of Things

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The IoT Investment Opportunity

(Note: This story was originally posted on CRN.com July 30.)

Hype around the Internet of Things is growing, and venture capital investors are increasingly getting into the game as more IoT-based startups emerge with innovative technology, offering solution providers more partnership opportunities.

Supply Chain Security Vital to Organizations

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Despite obvious supply chain differences between organizations in different industries, IT architects should consider their generic similarities when integrating various solutions. Quite often, the complexity of the supply chain depends on the entities working together – manufacturers, logistic providers, repackages, retail stores – meaning that security and infrastructures become complex and cumbersome to manage.

Heartland Business Systems Achieves Reduced Costs with Asigra Converged Backup Appliances

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In the MSP world, choosing to work with a new vendor is not a decision to be taken lightly. First, you have to ensure interoperability with you and your client’s existing systems, and that the business case exists to justify the decision

Blog Roundup: The IT Organization And Pokemon Go

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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.

IT WEAPONS: The risks and opportunities behind Pokemon Go

IT leaders need to spend time understanding the implications and make decisions that fit business needs and policies, this post asserts.

What Matters When It Comes To Keeping Good Employees?

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Finding the right person to fill a job can be a challenging task. Keeping your best performers can be just as challenging.

And in an age when the workplace is being shaped to accommodate the needs and workstyles of millennials – those born generally between 1980 and 2000 – employers continually seek creative ways to keep their people, especially their best people.

While a competitive pay and benefits package can help, sometimes it's the simple things that can endear an employee to his or her employer.

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