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Exploring Conferencing and Collaboration Pain Points

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Conferencing and collaboration expenses are one of an enterprise’s most volatile and difficult to predict, making accurate budgeting and forecasting practically impossible. Based on research conducted by AOTMP, optimizing telecom costs is the top telecom management activity for organizations this year, with a focus on conferencing expenses.

Flash. Ah-Ah. He’ll Save Every One Of Us!

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With the release of Ted 2 last week, visions of Flash Gordon are again floating through our heads, but Flash Gordon isn’t the only heroic version of flash to hit the big-time this year. The commercial market for flash, of the SSD (solid state drive) variety, just grew 31 percent in units in Q1 2015 versus the prior year period. So, what’s the big deal? Why are all the luminaries in the IT industry talking about it?

Solution Providers rank IBM #1 in Midrange Servers and Enterprise Network Storage

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Every year, The Channel Company’s CRN Annual Report Card (ARC) Survey recognizes the best-in-class vendors in the categories of partnership, support and product innovation. For more than 30 years, thousands of solution providers have cast their votes, and this year’s honorees were selected based on the results of an in-depth survey by The Channel Company’s research team.

XChange 2015 Panel: Who Should The CISO Report To?

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While the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) position is clearly on the rise, what remains unclear is the role itself and where it should fit within the organization.

For a partner, a key indicator of that role for sales conversations with CISOs is who that person reports to in the organization, John Ford, principal and founder at Tampa, Fla.-based Sienna Group said on a panel at IT Security University held at XChange 2015 and hosted by CRN parent company The Channel Company. 

Former CompuCom CEO: Survival Depends On Constant Change

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Former CompuCom CEO Jim Dixon

In 2004, CompuCom was a struggling hardware company with services making up a mere 16 percent of its revenue.

Fast forward to 2012, and the company had switched to a services company with over 55 percent of its business from services and had grown its revenue from $1.4 billion to $2.3 billion.

XChange: Agility Is Critical In The Ever-evolving IT Industry

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Much like the ill-fated emperor in the Hans Christian Andersen story, "The Emperor's New Clothes," any IT company that encourages groupthink and discourages those who question the status quo will eventually be an organization in trouble, and possibly, heading toward extinction, according to Simon Dudley, CEO of Excession Events.

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