For Mark III Systems, it all started when VP of sales Stan Wysocki realized the company was “stuck in IT.” Wysocki knew he needed to move company focus outside the box to more digital and cognitive platforms to best benefit clients and partners.
Breaking into any new industry can be challenging, but what about the U.S. public sector? Avnet provides industry insight that can help resellers overcomes barriers to entry.
Addressing end-to-end security needs within organizations isn’t just about having a well-versed security team; it’s about ensuring that every person throughout the business is knowledgeable and up-to-date on security threats and issues. Training can ensure every employee–not just the IT staff–is cautious, alert and informed.
It’s no secret that consumers today are evolving in the way they evaluate and buy products and services. The evolution of the media industry and introduction of third platform has driven significant changes in the buying decisions of consumers today. They are making their decisions more and more based on who can provide the best information accessible online coupled with a seamless buying experience, and are often willing to forgo price as the first priority. This is no different for consumers choosing their cloud offerings and services.
If you’re looking to develop an IoT practice, you need to be able to get into an account through different means than just the IT directory. Regardless of whom the sales team approaches, it must be armed with use cases in order to make headway. A lot of the opportunity in IoT will depend on the ability to offer creative solutions that may not have been possible in a sensor-less world.
Today, we’re all busy getting used to the new normal: the explosion of third platform technologies (cloud, analytics, security, mobility and IoT), new customer challenges and the growing need for solutions that solve business problems.
There are hundreds of millions of people in the IT industry, and some days I’m sure it feels like you’re getting information from every single one of them. As the channel continues to grow, the information and content you’re bombarded with continues to grow, too.
Today it’s both exciting and intimidating that a 16-year-old can become a billionaire overnight with the sale of his photo-sharing site to Yahoo, or that a government could reduce or limit the nuclear production of another government without the move of a human or military asset. New and emerging technologies, such as the 3rd Platform, are leading many of the changes that we are seeing in the world today.
Cloud computing is now well-established as a viable, even essential, element in how organizations use technology to achieve business goals. Challenges such as meeting the needs of users, deploying solutions to business needs faster and increasing demands on badly stretched internal IT teams are driving the discussion surrounding cloud computing.
The risk for healthcare organizations isn’t getting any better. In fact, we’re now more than five years into the HITECH and Affordable Care Acts, and the risks are greater than ever.
There are many new factors now influencing the risk to the energy information. Insert the Internet of Things, Wi-FI, access points and networked-based status market, and, for the most part, the risk and threats can come from anywhere.
Many industry experts consider the software-defined data center to be the data center of the future because it enables a service-centric approach to provisioning IT resources and managing applications.
Organizations are beginning to understand that they’re going to miss the boat if they don’t adapt and convert their teams to where the channel and IT is moving–toward the software-defined data center.
Now more than ever, business success can be tied directly to the underlying performance of an organization’s technology infrastructure. And nowhere is that infrastructure more important than in the computer networks that connect employees, customers and partners with the information and access they need. Simply put: If the network isn’t performing well, the business isn’t performing well.
Recently, Premera Blue Cross was hit with the second-biggest cyberattack in healthcare industry history, exposing the personal, financial and medical information of more than 11 million customers. Only six weeks before, Anthem announced that it had been victim of a breach subjecting nearly 80 million records of customers to exposure. Although these breaches are becoming more and more common in the healthcare industry, they’re nothing new.
As the world moves increasingly toward the third platform, the term no longer serves as a buzzword or is defined as the next-generation computing model. It’s here today, and has consumers all over the world not only driving the consumption of technology but demanding that it be delivered differently. In Latin America, the growth of the economy and middle class has resulted in a growth of consumer spending and a greater demand for technology services. According to IDC, IT growth in Latin America in 2015 will outpace the global average of 3.7 percent.
Cloud computing, overall, is now well-established as a viable, even essential, element in how organizations use technology to achieve business goals. Challenges such as meeting the needs of users, deploying solutions to business needs faster and increasing demands on badly stretched internal IT teams are driving the discussion surrounding cloud computing.
In a blog featured a few weeks back on The VAR Guy, I discussed what organizations are looking for when turning to their solutions providers for converged infrastructure solutions. It inevitably comes down to reduced complexity, assured performance levels and meeting SLAs with highly scalable solutions that will meet future requirements. But what is the role of the solutions provider in assuring that all of this is available in a solution, and what do they need to know to compete in the growing converged infrastructure market?
Take a peek behind the curtains of nearly any organization’s data center, and you’re likely to see a legacy model of complexity. Whether it’s a cutting-edge design with raised floors or a makeshift wiring cabinet with a mix of servers, storage devices, routers and switches, many of today’s data centers are a mismatched collection of brands, topologies and platforms across both hardware and software.
Cloud computing is one of today’s largest market opportunities. According to Saugatuck Technology, by 2016, 75 percent or more
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