May 17 / By Rob McKernan Accelerate Edge Computing Sales with New Local Edge Configurator Tool According to Grand View Research, Inc., the global edge computing market is projected to reach $3.24 billion USD by 2025, expanding at a CAGR of 41.0% during that forecast period. IT solution providers, value added… Read Article »
Mar 26 / By Rob McKernan Physical Security for Edge Computing Offers Managed Service Opportunity for IT Solution Providers A recent survey of IT channel partners conducted for APC by Schneider Electric uncovered convincing evidence that there’s a significant opportunity for IT solution providers in offering managed security services targeting the increasing number of… Read Article »
Mar 22 / By Rob McKernan The IT Solution Provider’s Toolkit for Remote Monitoring of Power and Cooling As IT environments get more dispersed and diverse, managing your customers’ critical power and cooling infrastructure becomes harder. Visibility into a distributed IT hybrid environment isn’t as simple as monitoring a centralized data center, which… Read Article »
Mar 20 / By Rob McKernan How Edge and Cloud Trends are Driving the Need for Cloud-based DCIM One of the principal outcomes of the trend toward outsourcing to the cloud is the elevated importance of the applications, data processing, and data storage being retained on-premise. However, these services are often located in… Read Article »
Mar 08 / By Rob McKernan APC Webinar Featuring Canalys: Edge Computing Opportunity for Channel Partners Anyone who is even tangentially involved in IT has been hearing a lot about the “edge” lately – whether edge computing or edge data centers. IT solution providers may rightfully be wondering, “What’s in it… Read Article »
Feb 26 / By Rob McKernan Edge Computing is Key to Meeting Digital Transformation Demands – and Partnerships Can Help Deliver Them Organizations in virtually every vertical industry are undergoing a digital transformation in an attempt to take advantage of edge computing technology to make their businesses more efficient, innovative and profitable. In the process, they’re coming… Read Article »
Jan 30 / By Rob McKernan Four Major Trends for IT Solution Providers to Watch in 2019 Including Emerging Technologies and the Growth of Edge Computing As 2019 gets under way, IT solution providers should keep an eye on technology and business trends that are shaping the future of IT. The channel is undergoing major changes as the vast majority of… Read Article »
Dec 20 / By Rob McKernan CRN Awards Highlight Value of UPS and Data Center Management Services for IT Solution Providers As customers continue to build edge computing data centers to support Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing access, and other distributed applications, they face challenges inherent in managing these facilities, many of which have few… Read Article »
Oct 22 / By Rob McKernan How IT Solution Providers Can Increase Recurring Revenue with Remote UPS Monitoring Currently, services make up about 30 percent of IT solution providers’ revenue, a figure that will surely grow in coming years. One of these services includes monitoring uninterruptible power supplies (UPSs) to mitigate unplanned downtime…. Read Article »
May 17 / By Rob McKernan Steps MSPs Can Take to Address the IT Skills Shortage for IoT and Edge Computing In an industry where change is relentless, there is one constant you can always count on – a chronic shortage of IT skills. Even during economic downturns, it’s difficult to fill IT job vacancies because… Read Article »