GE's Leader: Partners Must 'Embrace The Future' For IoT

Submitted by Lindsey O'Donnell on August 18, 2016, 4:01 pm EDT

(Note: This story was originally posted to CRN.com on Aug. 17.)

Why AppDev Holds The Key For Channel Success In IoT

Submitted by Lindsey O'Donnell and Mark Haranas on August 17, 2016, 3:51 pm EDT

(Note: This story was originally posted to CRN.com on Aug. 16.)

Solution providers believe the road to potential success in the lucrative Internet of Things market runs through their application development teams, which is why they're bolstering that function.

Companies bringing IoT solutions to market face several hurdles, including interoperability, security and data management challenges - and staffing up with IoT application developers is critical for tackling these issues, solution providers tell CRN.

Q&A: CompuCom CTO On Why Progess Is Slow With Digital Transformations

Submitted by Rick Saia on August 16, 2016, 2:16 pm EDT

Digital Transformations: Still In The Slow Lane?

The road to digital transformation resembles more of an obstacle course, according to the results of a recent survey conducted by solution provider CompuCom Systems.

How A Microsoft Partner Has Profited From IoT

Submitted by Lindsey O'Donnell on August 15, 2016, 10:30 am EDT

(Note: This article, posted to CRN.com July 28, is part of CRN's weekly IoT Channel Chronicles series of in-depth interviews with solution providers to dig into opportunities and challenges the channel is facing with the Internet of Things.)

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Blog Roundup: Innovating And Managing In The Cloud

Submitted by Rick Saia on August 14, 2016, 4:44 pm EDT

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

Here are three recent posts focusing on innovating and managing in the cloud, and how managed service providers can keep mid-sized business customers happy.

QUEST: Three 'must have' technology innovations

Solution Provider Opens Up Test Center For Clients

Submitted by Rick Saia on August 12, 2016, 3:30 pm EDT

David Magee lived it before as an IT professional with an end-user organization: the testing of technology tools to determine how secure they were, whether they could scale, and how well they could work within his infrastructure.

Blog Roundup: Thriving In The Digital Era

Submitted by Rick Saia on August 11, 2016, 12:20 pm EDT

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

Here are three recent posts focusing on the shift to digital infrastructures and Oracle's announced acquisition of NetSuite.

COGNIZANT: Thinking beyond technology to thrive in the digital era

Four Cloud Insights For Solution Providers

Submitted by Rick Saia on August 10, 2016, 3:02 pm EDT

Clear Opportunities From Cloud

Want to sell more cloud solutions? There's still a lot of revenue to grab, according to the results of a recent survey of U.S. technology and business executives by solution provider giant Unisys.

Q&A: Atrion Communications' Dominic Grillo On IT Security, Finding Emerging Vendors

Submitted by Rick Saia on August 9, 2016, 4:25 pm EDT

As Times Changed, So Did Business

How To Tame Latency, The Silent Cloud Killer

Submitted by Joseph Tsidulko on August 9, 2016, 2:03 pm EDT

Latency Can Be A Letdown

The public cloud offers enterprises tremendous cost and agility benefits. But network latency problems negate all that promise, making the cloud inconvenient or inaccessible for day-to-day operations and analytics.

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