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Consolidation key to IT asset efficency

SysAid's Oded Moshe

IT asset management teams and the service desk should work together better, says Oded Moshe

31 May 2012

An opportunity for financial software players?

Tradeshift's Christian Laang

Big data represents an opportunity for the financial software channel, notes Christian Lanng

30 May 2012

Get smart on application performance

Owen Cole is EMEA vice president at ExtraHop Networks

Resellers should be looking at new approaches to app management, according to Owen Cole

22 May 2012

Innovating an intelligent infrastructure

Giridhar Lakkavalli looks at IaaS and how it needs to develop

01 May 2012

Cloud sales and partnering

Mark Herbert goes over the processes for selling cloud

24 Apr 2012

Looking through the Windows

The latest triumvirate of OSes from Microsoft is a fine channel proposition, according to Stuart Cordingley

23 Apr 2012

SSD and business continuity

Ian Masters says SSD should be considered when addressing customer business continuity

21 Mar 2012

SaaS customisation is not dead

Rajesh Ranjan looks at where to draw the line between configuration and customisation in SaaS

17 Jan 2012

VDI out of the box

Matt McPhail says SMBs need VDI that can be deployed, scaled, and managed easily

21 Dec 2011

Fight integration decline with custom SaaS

SIs likely to struggle in the current climate should consider an OEM path, says Davy Nys

23 Nov 2011

Embracing the Big open-source Society

A "big" and relatively debt-free society would be fostered by embracing open source, says Jim Shaw

22 Nov 2011

Lift and balance the load

George Zervos weighs up the growing need for server load balancing among SMBs and looks at how it could benefit the channel

18 Nov 2011

Licences to kill

Too many firms are still struggling with vendor audits of their software estate and related licensing issues. Sean Robinson proposes a solution

14 Nov 2011

Taste-testing Apple’s iOS 5

Mark Mason gives a flavour of the business and IT issues surrounding the new iOS 5 operating system for mobile devices such as iPhones

04 Nov 2011

Diversifying on the desktop

Alternatives to VDI still need to be explored, says Paul Robinson

10 Oct 2011

One last great shift for software

Cloud will be all-pervasive within 10 years, says Zach Nelson

22 Sep 2011

Inflation, open source and castles

Sara Yirrell looks back at the week we've had

19 Sep 2011

Changes in cybercrime and the channel role

There's a greater need for education around complex emerging threats, argues Alex Teh

08 Jul 2011

Clear clouds from the Star alliance

Andy Burton asks whether the new Cloud Alliance can really promote open competition and transparency

06 Jul 2011

A complementary virtualisation landscape

Resellers should opt for a best-of-breed mixture of products when virtualising, claims Dominic Wordsworth

22 Jun 2011

All those Googley eyes

Chromebook will help eliminate the headache of the Microsoft PC upgrade cycle, says David McLeman

01 Jun 2011

Betting on middle-age spread as FTP hits 40

File transfer might have been around for a while but opportunities still exist, says Chris Greaves

24 May 2011

Taking the channel to 100 per cent web

Is your business ready to move online with the transition to cloud computing?

09 May 2011

Backup pitch for an old task

New opportunities exist for resellers around one of the oldest tasks in the book, says Thomas Barrett

25 Nov 2010

Process is key to plugging data leakage

Data leakage issues should be taken as seriously as financial loss problems, says Tim Holyoake

18 Nov 2010

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