ANS mulling 100 per cent services focus is a sign of the times

Doug Woodburn
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Comments made by ANS CEO Paul Shannon and others in recent Top VARs roundtable add to impression that services transition is accelerating, says Doug Woodburn

In the course of researching Top VARs 2016, I lost count of the number of firms that referenced their efforts to reinvent themselves as managed services or cloud players. To pick out just a few,...

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