Service Provider CEO: VARs Will Become Tech ‘Brokers’

Submitted by Joseph Tsidulko on March 18, 2016, 2:00 pm EDT

VARs are becoming cloud brokers, pushing resources and services to their customers like Wall Street traders do with stocks, Sean Ferrel, CEO of San Diego-based Managed Solution, told attendees of XChange Solution Provider 2016 last week in Los Angeles.

Cloud Helps Puff Up Solution Providers’ Financials, IDC Says

Submitted by Rick Saia on March 16, 2016, 10:29 am EDT

Cloud Is Rolling In

As the cloud takes up a larger chunk of corporate technology infrastructures – and budgets, solution providers are increasingly being called upon for their expertise.

No More Crossed Fingers: Five Questions Ensure the Optimal Data Protection Approach

Submitted by Eran Farajun on March 15, 2016, 5:14 pm EDT

There’s often a direct and inverse correlation between the complexity of a company’s computing environment and the effectiveness of its data protection strategies. The result frequently means businesses blindly trust their current data protection solutions to recover all their data in case of disaster. Or put more plainly, they cross their fingers and hope for the best.

Six Tendencies Taking Shape in Enterprise Security this Year

Submitted by Bitdefender Channel on March 14, 2016, 9:55 am EDT

Two years ago, the world rushed to say the antivirus industry is dead. I disagree simply because antivirus companies do not exist anymore. I haven’t seen a security company that limits its portfolio to one, traditional security (antivirus) solution. Those who’ve tried are dead and gone, but most of them have morphed into cybersecurity companies.

Shifting into the fast lane with hybrid cloud

Submitted by IBM Channel on March 10, 2016, 12:26 pm EST

Cloud is now ubiquitous, with three-quarters of organizations adopting cloud capabilities for speed and scalability. However, the popularity and benefits of cloud don’t mean that enterprises are discarding their traditional IT systems. Evidence is mounting that the future of IT will be hybrid. IDC predicts that over 80% of enterprise IT organizations will commit to hybrid cloud architectures by 2017.

10 Warnings For Solution Providers That Want To Move Into Security

Submitted by Sarah Kuranda on March 10, 2016, 11:39 am EST

Security Presents An Opportunity – But Not Without Risk

Security presents a massive opportunity for many MSPs and solution providers, with the market overall expected to jump to more than $170 billion by 2020, according to MarketsandMarkets.

5 Tips On Where To Find Good IT Employees

Submitted by Michael Novinson on March 9, 2016, 7:52 pm EST

Building An Employee Pipeline

5 Things Solution Providers Can Learn About Security From The CIA

Submitted by Sarah Kuranda on March 9, 2016, 10:00 am EST

There are significant and very real threats abroad affecting national security. Now, many of those threats, which stem from such countries as Syria and Iraq, are extending onto U.S. soil with the aid of technology, Bob Dougherty, retired operations officer for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and an intelligence-based strategic consulting professional, said Monday at XChange 2016's Security University in Los Angeles.

Microsoft Tech Partner: MSPs Can’t Bank On Status Quo

Submitted by Joseph Tsidulko on March 8, 2016, 11:15 am EST

Under Pressure

A whole crop of Microsoft-aligned managed service providers have built businesses licensing its software over the last decade and delivering it to customers as hosted applications and services.

3 Actions You Can Take to Positively Impact Your Customers’ IT Organizations

Submitted by EMC Channel on March 3, 2016, 12:03 pm EST

Critical business processes require multiple copies of each database’s and application’s data for development, analytics, operations, and data protection. To improve organizational agility and competitiveness, more is better—more copies, more frequently, with more operational self-service across the process cycles.

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