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Q&A: VARs Need To Step Up To Make Money On Latest WiFi Trends

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Bruce Miller, vice president of product marketing at Xirrus.

Wi-Fi specialist vendor Xirrus introduced what they said is the industry's first cloud-managed, wall-mounted 802.11ac Wi-Fi access point, which delivers high-speed Wi-Fi and Gigabit Ethernet wired access in a single solution focused on hospitality, education and healthcare space.

The product is touted as a low-cost enterprise-class 802.11ac AP.

Breaking Down What You Need To Know About Compliance

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Compliance isn't easy.

With a wide variety of regulatory bodies to report to, a growing group of businesses that need to be follow the rules, tricky lingo, staying compliant can be a complicated and costly headache.

Hefty fines tend to motivate companies to stay up-to-date with compliance, Compass Datacenters, a third party data center provider based in Dallas, Texas, said in its latest blog post.

Accenture: Clients Take The Reins, But Solution Providers Still Key

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What does a solution provider do when the future might take technology decisions completely out of his hands?

That's exactly what might happen in three to five years, Accenture said in its Technology Vision 2015 report, as clients change the way they think about digital technology and embrace what the company called a "We Economy."

CIOs Turning to Service Delivery As Purchasing Power Dwindles

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Less Money, New Problems For CIOs

IT Departments are trying to reposition themselves as internal service providers in response to losing control over technology spending.

That's according to a survey of 177 CIOs and IT directors from mid-market organizations in 24 countries spanning Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia-Pacific.

Four Reasons MSPs Should Invest In The Cloud

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MSPs Cast Their Gaze Upon The Cloud

Businesses are increasingly turning to the cloud to simplify internal operations and improve their ability to acquire, share and analyze data.

RKON Technologies, No. 346 on the CRN SP 500, has been watching this transformation firsthand as it assists Fortune 2000 companies with managing their cloud services.

Why Managed Hosting Services Matter

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Building and maintaining modern data centers can be a very expensive proposition, best left to the experts. For many years, data center management companies delivered co-location and managed hosting services for their customers that wanted to take advantage of access to world class data centers without having to build their own. Now that public cloud IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) is a well-established $13 billion industry, companies increasingly are looking at IaaS as a more cost effective and flexible alternative.

The Right Way To Take Your Application Stack To The Cloud

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So you want to move to the cloud. That's great, but for many businesses, jumping in with both feet might not be the smartest decision.

Deciding which applications are ready for the move and which are not is important. Do it right, and the potential for improvement for both users and customers are dramatic. Rush into it, and it could be a nightmare.

Partners Involved In Cloud Projects Seize Security Opportunity

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The customer demand for security is driving some solution providers to offer security products and services, while others are bundling data protection and threat detection offerings as part of cloud migration or big data projects.

Customers with a heightened sensitivity to data security, as they migrate on premise systems to cloud resources, are compelling some solution providers to add security offerings to their portfolio to meet the growing demand.

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