Category Archives: white papers
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Hot technologies and markets for the channel in 2012 Part 4
Value Added Cloud
Where would any self-respecting prediction list be without reference to the cloud! Every vendor seems to have jumped in feet first with cloud happily tacked onto just about every possible permutation of product. You would assume that the market is saturated and a done deal. Well the reality is that customers – remember, the ones who pay for things – have, by and large, not yet boarded the good ship cloud for various reasons. There is an opportunity for a new breed of channel partner that understands not just the cloud but legacy systems to help then make that switch. One of the biggest areas is office productivity, of which, Microsoft is still the dominant player. Another area is unified communications, and the last area ripe for moving to the cloud is backup and recovery.
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Hot technologies and markets for the channel in 2012 Part 3
Purchase Automation Solutions
The recession is over – Hurrah! But the cost of the stimulus packages and banking bailouts has left the UK with a big budget deficit, so cuts are coming. The public sector will be hit hard, and the knock on effect will be felt by every vendor and service provider which supplies to any organisation receiving funding from central or local government. Even as we speak, departmental heads and accountants will be pouring over spreadsheets and diving into ERP systems to work out how to save a few quid. One logical response is to stop your employees from buying things that are outside Read More…
of their assigned budgets. Another is to tighten up controls on when they buy and from which suppliers as well as cracking down on fraudulent activity.
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Hot technologies and markets for the channel in 2012 Part 2
Disaster recovery for virtualised environments
Virtualisation is hot. VMware is making money hand over fist and everybody wants to save cash through the new magic bullet. But if you’re a large enterprise, you still need to put in place a bulletproof disaster recovery position to protect this shiny new virtual infrastructure. The traditional method is to create alternative sites and replicate the data from the primary to the backup. This Read More…
is expensive and further complicated in a fast evolving virtualised environment.
