7 Biggest Stories of the Week, March 16-20
Welcome to the end of another work week—this one punctuated by the celebration of the patron saint of Ireland and a short walk with a few thousand of my closest friends up Fifth Avenue in New York City. Meanwhile, the world kept turning and technology news kept flowing (much like the green river in Chicago). So here are The VAR Guy's seven biggest stories for the week ending March 20. Sláinte!
March 20, 2015
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Welcome to the end of another work week—this one punctuated by the celebration of the patron saint of Ireland and a short walk with a few thousand of my closest friends up Fifth Avenue in New York City. Meanwhile, the world kept turning and technology news kept flowing (much like the green river in Chicago). So here are The VAR Guy's seven biggest stories for the week ending March 20. Sláinte!
Hewlett-Packard used its Global Partner Conference 2015 in Las Vegas as a launch pad for several new initiatives centered on helping partners ease into the upcoming company split, including its HP Navigator program and the HP AllianceOne Partner program. Both programs are aimed at helping current partners to settle into a familiar groove ahead of the introduction of HP Enterprise and HP Inc.
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Solution providers soon will be able to get better insight into their financial and operating models thanks to CompTIA’s Business Model Benchmark, a new assessment tool for CompTIA members.
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What does the Apple iWatch, which is will be sold only through retail stores or online, have to do with solution providers? Plenty. The more Apple Watches are out there in the wild, the more BYOD-related issues will present themselves to IT security administrators and the more opportunity will surface for enterprise mobility solution providers.
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IBM’s (IBM) deal last October with Twitter (TWTR) to meld social data with the vendor’s analytics software and customer engagement platforms has yielded its first products—new tools and cloud-based data analysis services aimed at businesses and developers.
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Paul Perez, Cisco (CSCO) Computing Systems Product Group vice president and general manager, reportedly left the company last month, in a move reported by NetworkWorld and subsequently confirmed by the vendor.
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Mobile device maker BlackBerry (BBRY) is venturing into the tablet market again, but this time with a model heavy on security, directed at business and government users yet suitable for unsecured consumer applications.
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The Internet of Things. It’s the latest buzzword that evokes images of self-regulating thermostats, health monitors and refrigerators that let you know when the milk goes bad. But it’s more than that: IoT is projected to be a $7.1 trillion—yes, trillion—market worldwide by 2020, according to IDC.
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The Internet of Things. It’s the latest buzzword that evokes images of self-regulating thermostats, health monitors and refrigerators that let you know when the milk goes bad. But it’s more than that: IoT is projected to be a $7.1 trillion—yes, trillion—market worldwide by 2020, according to IDC.
Read the story here.
Welcome to the end of another work week—this one punctuated by the celebration of the patron saint of Ireland and a short walk with a few thousand of my closest friends up Fifth Avenue in New York City. Meanwhile, the world kept turning and technology news kept flowing (much like the green river in Chicago). So here are The VAR Guy's seven biggest stories for the week ending March 20. Sláinte!
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