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By Andrew Alegria As published March 11, 2013 in CRN As an increasing number of VARs add SaaS offerings to their portfolio, those without cloud services will find it increasingly hard to compete for customers – and to maintain profitability without the margin-rich reoccurring revenue streams that SaaS services provide. In North America, there are [...]

Today, customers expect businesses to be always up and available, and to safely handle more personal data than ever before. The more common these expectations become, the higher the cost of falling short by suffering from data loss and extended IT downtime.

This blog was originally published on The VAR Guy on Sept. 12, 2012 If you think you can afford downtime, ask the small-business owners who faced Hurricane Isaac in the U.S. Southeast. Many of them had to close their doors as the Category 1 hurricane left more than 900,000 people and businesses without power for [...]

This blog was originally published on The Var Guy on Aug. 15, 2012. There are literally thousands of technology service providers and resellers offering basically the same stuff, making it extremely challenging to distinguish their services and really stand out. It’s not for lack of trying. I’ve seen some well-intentioned tactics: funny ads, clever graphics, [...]

Within a technology company, Product Management entails turning the chaos of numerous competing demands into a coherent roadmap that yields meaningful product releases. It’s a challenging job, which varies considerably from one organization to the next. But throughout my career, it’s been a role to which I inevitably gravitate. With that said, I thought I’d [...]

Blog by Ed Burke, president of B2BMSP Technology Services and speaker at the upcoming HP/Axcient Cloud Roadshow, coming to five U.S. cities between February 28 and March 15, 2012 If you spend much time with your IT customer, you’ll eventually get a tour of their data center, where they’ll proudly speak to you about the mission-critical hardware [...]

In my last blog, I discussed the history of user interface (UI) design technology, going back to my early days as a developer at the time windowed operating systems were gaining popularity. The technology has come a long way. Now with the use of scripted languages like Python, Ruby on Rails, or PHP – plus [...]

Is virtualization part of your IT deployment strategy? If you’re an IT professional working with a small- or medium-sized business (SMB), then chances are your answer is “yes.” A recent survey from Spiceworks reports that virtualization is the top IT initiative among SMBs. The survey goes on to say that 67% of SMBs are planning [...]

It’s once again the time of year when most of us make a New Year’s resolution. Some make personal resolutions to lose weight, spend more time with friends, or hold back on making those really funny but really inappropriate comments in public. But New Year’s resolutions can be professional ones too. If you’re a small or medium-sized business [...]

Depending on your age and taste in music, you may recognize “Low Spark” as the title of a popular song by the band Traffic. But you don’t need to be a fan of classic rock to appreciate how traffic impacts the performance of offsite data synchronization, which is the subject of this article. The synchronization [...]