Penton and Avnet (AVT) a leading global technology distributor, today launched <"It's an IoT World" University, a first-of-its-kind digital education center that offers real-world learning solutions covering the spectrum of the Internet of Things (IoT).
The second day of Microsoft Ignite 2015 was as chock full of news as the first day, and although The VAR Guy couldn’t be there in person, he’s certainly there in spirit. With that in mind, we’ve pulled together some of the best blogs, tweets and posts from Day 2 of the event to share.
Here’s a roundup of the day one events at Microsoft Ignite 2015, as reported by those in attendance.
There is no question that SD-WAN is poised to disrupt the networking market. For the IT channel, this impending change creates huge services revenue opportunities.
Penton Technology — a division of Penton — gets asked the question all the time: Who Is The VAR Guy? Frankly, we don’t know for sure. But the following tidbits of information offer some clues about our anonymous channel insider.
CompTIA ChannelCon 2014 is currently underway in Phoenix, with more than 800 solution providers attending the three-day event for oodles of educational sessions, resarch downloads and vendor meet-and-greets.
Storage virtualization juggernaut EMC (EMC) held its Redefine Possible event in London July 8, where the company revealed several new products and updates to its existing XtremIO platform. In keeping with classic British sci-fi fashion, the Doctor Who-themed event featured numerous TARDIS-like police booths and references to England’s most popular doctor as well as a healthy does of storage virtualization news and announcements.
Every once in a while, The VAR Guy gets a chance to breathe in some fresh air and take a trip that doesn’t involve a partner conference. Recently, our intrepid blogger had the opportunity to tour the CDW distribution center in Vernon Hills, Illinois, and get a behind-the-scenes a look.
Virtual Bridges has hired IBM Softlayer veteran Drew Jenkins to drive the virtualization company’s channel partner program. So why did Jenkins jump to the VDI (virtual desktop integration) company? The VAR Guy found the answers.
The VAR Guy is at Tech Data’s (TECD) TechSelect Spring event in Orlando, Florida, where the distributor is bringing together its TechSelect members to share best practices and growth strategies, as well as hear the latest and greatest from vendor partners including Microsoft (MSFT), Cisco Systems (CSCO) and Brocade (BRCD), to name just a few.
The VAR Guy is once again roaming the halls at EMC World 2014, where the third platform and the channel have so far taken center stage. What did Day Two hold in store? Read on and find out.
EMC World 2014 kicked off May 5 in beautiful Las Vegas, and The VAR Guy was on hand to offer up the lowdown on all of the day’s most important developments, sessions and info. So without further ado, here are some of the day’s most interesting events.
Who really is The VAR Guy? New clues emerge. But each time you think you know who done it, the clues change…
The VAR Guy surfaces at CompTIA Annual Member Meeting (AMM) 2014. Here’s a live blog recap for VARs, MSPs and CSPs working in and around the CompTIA organization.
Can the Internet of Things — which Cisco calls The Internet of Everything — generate profit and revenue growth for channel partners and service providers? Cisco Partner Summit 2014 offered some hype — and clues.
Cisco’s new Enterprise Mobility Services Platform plus 802.11ac WiFi push seeks to empower partners and service providers with an enterprise app strategy.
At Cisco Partner Summit 2014, will CEO John Chambers have a Cisco CEO successor in the audience amid cloud and Internet of Everything chatter? Hmmm… Here’s a live blog from Chambers’ keynote.
Oracle Channel Chief Rich Geraffo talks cloud services, Engineered Systems and partner strategies with The VAR Guy.
Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman addresses HP Global Partner Conference 2014 (HP GPC 2014), describing mobile, big data, cloud and security strategies for partners. Here’s The VAR Guy’s Live Blog recap.
Samsung is pushing beyond Android-based Galaxy tablets and smartphones to develop software for schools, financial services, health care, retail and hospitality, The VAR Guy has learned. Actually: All the facts are public. But nobody else has snapped the puzzle pieces together to share the bigger picture…
