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Kurt Marko

Kurt Marko is an IT industry analyst, consultant and regular contributor to a number of technology publications, pursuing his passion for communications after a varied career that has spanned virtually the entire high-tech food chain from chips to systems. Upon graduating from Stanford University with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering, Marko spent several years as a semiconductor device physicist, doing process design, modeling and testing. He then joined AT&T Bell Laboratories as a memory chip designer and CAD and simulation developer. Moving to Hewlett-Packard, he started in the laser printer R&D lab doing electrophotography development, for which he earned a patent, but his love of computers eventually led him to join HP’s nascent technical IT group. Marko spent 15 years as an IT engineer and was a lead architect for several enterprisewide infrastructure projects at HP, including the Windows domain infrastructure, remote access service, Exchange email infrastructure and managed web services.

10 AWS and Azure Features MSPs Should Know — and Exploit

Your customers are swamped by the volume, variety and velocity of new and updated services coming from hyperscale cloud providers. That spells opportunity for partners who can stay current and put offerings into a business perspective.

SAP Cloud Services Enable Partners to Deliver the Intelligent Enterprise, Even to SMBs

SAP’s deep insights into customer processes have allowed it to build a set of smart cloud services with room for partners to riff on custom enablement.

Growing List of IoT Apps Equals Partner Service Opportunities

Explosive growth of the Internet of Things ecosystem represents both a massive business investment and a revenue opportunity. It also creates golden opportunities for partners and service providers who already understand the technology needs of their customers and can build on that knowledge to help them determine the IoT architecture they need to improve their […]

Cisco Packages Kubernetes for HyperFlex Customers: Partners Will Like the Convenience

Cisco says partners lacking deep knowledge of Kubernetes can rapidly deploy a production-worthy system with confidence.

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Recent articles by Kurt Marko

10 AWS and Azure Features MSPs Should Know — and Exploit

SAP Cloud Services Enable Partners to Deliver the Intelligent Enterprise, Even to SMBs

Growing List of IoT Apps Equals Partner Service Opportunities

Cisco Packages Kubernetes for HyperFlex Customers: Partners Will Like the Convenience

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10 Most Notable IT Mergers and Acquisitions of 2019

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SMBs Are Taking Cybersecurity More Seriously

A Showcase of Innovation and Inspiration at Ingram Micro ONE 2019

7 Cybersecurity Predictions for 2020 from Webroot and Carbonite

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So You Wanna Be a 501er?

Agents Can Sell Managed Services. Here’s How.

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Why an Agile Workforce is Critical in 2020

Setting Hourly Rates for Field Service Technicians

Addressing the Cyber Skills Gap

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Channel Partners Conference & Expo

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FASTCHAT: Why an MSP Needs to Extend Detection and Response Beyond Endpoint Security

Ingram Micro: It’s Up to Our MSP Partners to Keep Clients ‘Out of the Headlines’

Liongard: Here’s How We ‘Roar’ for the MSP Community

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