Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesPartners may see increased business in Teams cloud calling as Microsoft expands the platform’s business focus. Education and governance offer other channel opportunities. By John Moore Newly expanded Microsoft Teams calling features are among the top opportunities next year for partners focusing on the collaboration platform, through which users made 650 million calls in October 2020. Microsoft this week said
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesChannel partners’ relationships with IT distribution companies should be about more than ordering tech parts. Find out how to get the most value out of distributor relationships. By Scott Ford Editor’s note: IT distributors are an important segment of the IT channel ecosystem that act as intermediaries between vendors and channel partners. 1. Evaluate distributors There are plenty of distributors in
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesAs chipmakers expand the amount of processing power in CPUs, some are considering the use of chiplets. These modular silicon pieces offer a possible option for scalable designs. By Kerry Doyle Multicore CPUs were fundamental to scaling data center performance and supporting a range of nascent technologies. Since the early 2000s, manufacturers have consistently increased CPU core counts and combined
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesLatest quarterly market tracker data from Synergy Research Group reveals the impact the pandemic is having on the fortunes of the runners and riders in the cloud infrastructure services market. By Caroline Donnelly The soaring demand for online services brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic has served to ensure the cloud market has enjoyed a bumper third quarter, according to
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesNew models include Intel 10th Gen vPro CPUs and, on select models, AMD Ryzen 4000 Pro CPUs. Wi-Fi 6, ThinkShield and modern standby are also featured in the new models. By Taylor Driscoll Lenovo announced the latest models of ThinkPad T, X and L series laptops on Monday, which include the newest CPUs from Intel and AMD and Wi-Fi 6
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesThe new ProBooks — the 445 GH and 455 G7 — feature the latest AMD Ryzen 4000 chip processor and enhanced security features to enable remote work and aid small businesses. By Taylor Driscoll Two recently announced additions to the HP ProBook 400 line of enterprise PCs are geared at small businesses and remote workers during a time of extended
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesHP hardware releases are centered on ‘micro mobility’ around the home, enabling remote employees to be productive in spaces not designed for work. By Mike Gleason Recent HP hardware announcements, such as a portable secondary monitor and laptops with 5G and 4G LTE capability, emphasized the importance of productivity while working from home. HP Inc. announced new EliteBook laptops and
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesDon’t write off HDDs just yet. Energy-assisted technologies such as MAMR and HAMR may keep hard disk drives competitive in an evolving secondary storage market. By Erin Sullivan Hard disk drives may be considered obsolete by some, but modern HDD technologies have made significant strides in increasing storage capacity and speed. SSDs, cloud-based storage and software-defined storage may have made
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesData replication can play a big role in a disaster recovery plan, so make sure you’re familiar with the different types of replication and where they work best. By Dave Raffo Erin Sullivan Data replication is the process of copying data from one location to another so you have multiple up-to-date copies. For disaster recovery, replication usually occurs between a
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesBy Carol Sliwa Seagate Technology LLC and Micron Technology Inc. today unveiled a 12 Gbps Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS) enterprise solid-state drive (SSD) that offers capacity options of up to 4 TB and endurance choices to suit write-intensive, read-intensive and mixed-use application workloads. The SAS SSD, which ships this month, is the first product resulting from the strategic alliance that Seagate and Micron forged in
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