Industry Insights

2016 Brings New Tech Era For Washington

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Steve Charles (pictured) is a co-founder of immixGroup, an Arrow Electronics company, which helps technology companies do business with government. Contact him at Steve_Charles@immixGroup.com or connect with him on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/stcharles.

If you do business with the federal government, this year and next will bring a lot of change for you.

Blog Roundup: IoT, Digital Service Management And Cloud Migration

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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.

SHI INTERATIONAL: How To Sidestep Cloud Migration Challenges

Because Of The Cloud, Monitoring Matters Even More

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Brian Wilson (pictured) is senior vice president of customer success at Zenoss, a solution provider based in Austin, Texas. He can be reached at bwilson@zenoss.com.

In my discussions with CIOs and other IT leaders, I am frequently asked one question: Does networking monitoring really matter now, with cloud technology maturing so rapidly?

The simple answer is yes. In fact, network monitoring matters more than ever.

How Big BYOD Liabilities Equal Huge Partner Opportunities

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Study offers honest look at how companies are implementing BYOD policies.

BYOD - or Bring Your Own Device policies - is a double-edge sword. It can drive employee satisfaction, giving workers access to their device of choice. But it also presents chief securuity officers with a potential security nightmare that may closely reflect reality. Statistics reveal that more than half (53 percent) of companies have no BYOD policies in place, according to a recent survey by solution provider Champion Solutions Group.

5 Ways to Help Teams Be On Time to Meetings

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Your customers have eliminated downloads, dial-in numbers and passcodes. They’ve sent free/busy polls to find the best time to meet. They’ve given their team mobile meeting apps with calendar alerts and push notifications. Still, they’re teams arrive late to online meetings, and they’ve heard all the worst late-for-meeting excuses. You’re doing a great job making sure they have all the right technology in place, and their workers are still late to meetings. What can you do to help? Share these tips and be your customers’ hero!

Three Tips for Healthier Vendor-System Integrator Relationships

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Robert Bredlau, e-Spirit

In today's business world, it's rare to find a vendor who doesn't have relationships with multiple technology and implementation partners. Why? Because much of the technology that is used in the enterprise requires experts who can integrate complicated technology products with other vendors' technology. As such, it's important for system integrators (SIs) to understand what vendors are looking for in their partners as well as what customers are looking for from their technology vendors and system integrators.

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