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…
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Success with Edge Computing: MSPs Must Manage Customer Sites
As edge computing sites sprout across the IT landscape to handle IoT (Internet of Things) and AI (artificial intelligence) applications, organizations are facing performance and management challenges. Eventually companies will have hundreds and thousands of…
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Two Reasons Li-Ion UPSs Promise to Create New Opportunities for IT Solution Providers
Probably you’ve been hearing about lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries of late, and the benefits they bring to uninterruptible power supplies (UPSs). Chief among those benefits is they last twice as long as traditional batteries and require…
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Top 6 Predictions for IT Solution Providers in 2018
As IT solution providers settle into the new year, they need to navigate the wave of change that is gripping the IT channel and the tech industry in general. As new technologies gain traction, a…
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How Cloud is Making Local IT Networks More Reliable with Connected UPSs
Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and their customers do not really need much convincing that the uninterruptible power supply – or UPS – is the cornerstone of network reliability and availability. For more than three decades,…
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Physical Security Is Critical to Edge Computing Deployments
For many Managed Service Providers (MSPs), security has become the No. 1 topic when discussing IT services with customers. The discussion typically revolves around cybersecurity for obvious reasons, but partners need to also broach physical…
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Edge Computing Deployments Require a Standardized Approach to Infrastructure
As IoT (Internet of Things) continues to gain momentum, local edge computing sites will start popping up everywhere. To manage the physical infrastructure at these sites, organizations will need a standards-based approach to make them…
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What Digital Transformation Means to IT Solution Providers
IT Solution Providers have a vested interest in digital transformation, what effect it will have on their customer relationships and in turn, their businesses. Their opportunity lies in the new technologies and recurring revenue streams…
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Hybrid IT Creates Channel Opportunities at the Edge
The future of IT is a hybrid of low cost cloud infrastructure and software, running alongside micro data centers at the edge of the network. One of the main reasons customers will need to keep…
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4 Approaches for MSPs to Manage Hidden Costs That Erode Profitability
In the traditional IT channel model, business costs are fairly straightforward. Resellers source products from vendors and distributors, mark them up and sell them to end customers. Additional services, such as troubleshooting and maintenance, incur…
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