Channel Tech Center

One thing that seems to be abundantly clear at this point is that data deduplication and replication have become features of data storage products. CA pretty much led the way on this, with recent offerings from Quantum and Nexsan pretty much confirming the trend. In fact, with Symantec expected to follow suit any moment, it’s [...]

One of the historic problems with unified communications is how disjointed this set of technologies has really been. Most customers are really still unsure what it means to unify their communications and the various components of unified communications solution don’t always work so seamless together.
But at the same time, interest in increasing the productivity of [...]

Panda Cloud Office Protection combines the best features of desktop security with the flexibility of consolidated remote management into a single, easy to deploy package

Adtran’s latest routers have the moxie to push Cisco from the must buy list.

There’s a lot of debate these days over where to deploy various applications. Some folks think everything should automatically juts become a service in the cloud, while others point to a variety of technical, legal and strategic reasons for why that might not be such a good idea.
For example, a lot of existing applications are [...]

One of the biggest challenges when it comes to selling IT on any level is getting a proof of concept deployment set up in the first place. Customers are generally interested in almost anything a credible solution provider has to say. But before they buy something, they usually want to see a working demonstration in [...]

One of the things that drives a customer into the arms of solution providers more easily than anything else is anything to do with managing ongoing IT operations. Every customer out there falls in love with one application or another, but when it comes to living with that application they inevitably want somebody else to [...]

At the end of the day, solution providers in the channel need viable technologies that not only sell themselves, but also create an opportunity for the solution provider to deliver downstream services that are the key to ultimately being profitable. What follows is a list of 10 technology areas that in the last year have [...]

All things being equal, the channel doesn’t see cloud computing and software-as-a-service as being two of the friendliest technology trends to emerge in the last few years. But as we all know by now, these trends are not going away. And when you get past the emotional issues associated with any fundamental shift to a [...]

Nimsoft has given solution providers in the channel a tool that may finally allow many of them to start making some money off of cloud computing.
IT organizations looking to embrace cloud computing require tools that allow them to monitor the ongoing performance of a cloud computing service. To fulfill that need, Nimsoft has expanded the [...]