The public sector is an important space for channel partners, as federal, state and local governments look to utilize technology and services to improve security and optimize their IT infrastructures.
The Snowden revelations about the interception capabilities of NSA and partner agencies have prompted infrastructure owners and service providers, along with regular users, to make sure that data flows and is stored in an encrypted form.
Cisco continues to invest heavily in the Internet of Things in 2016, unveiling a slew of industrial-focused IoT products this week that channel partners should capitalize on.
Dell envisions a big market for high-performance computing (HPC) among mainstream mid-market customers, and is pushing to meet that demand with a new portfolio of systems that will be available through channel partners and aimed at the life sciences, manufacturing and research verticals.
Cloud-based unified communications is turning around the voice market. Traditional VARs selling phone systems have had to rethink their selling strategies as cloud-based private branch exchanges (PBXs) and softphone clients began to flood the market, causing business customers to reconsider their options for voice services.
Innovation around the Internet of Things is coming from all corners of the IT world – from big players such as Cisco and Verizon to smaller startups like mnubo and BullGuard.
The Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) movement comes with benefits and challenges. Employees who use their personal and preferred mobile devices are likely happier and thus more productive, but managing and securing those phones and tablets requires more dynamic solutions than were necessary in the one-device-fits-all era.
Recent cybersecurity incidents have left organizations and companies struggling to implement the necessary resources to minimize IT risks, regardless of how much security budgets have increased. More than 71 percent of organizations fear zero-day attacks and strongly believe they’re the most serious threats, and over 74 percent believe that it’s likely and very likely that their organization will be hit by an APT (Advanced Persistent Threat).