Premium Content From ASCII Members
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Adaptability Is Key: 4 Predictions On Cloud Migration And Innovation In 2022
1/4/2022
As 2022 quickly approaches, it’s essential to understand the recent shifts surrounding cloud migration that will impact the year to come. Over the last 18 months, there has been a steady increase in reliance on cloud technologies. With enterprises on both a national and international level moving toward remote work, quick adjustments are being made. The need to gain a better understanding of cloud technologies and how they can work best for us is of growing importance.
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Securely Empowering SMB Virtual Workforces: Why Virtual Desktops Make Sense
12/28/2021
Many SMBs struggle not only when it comes to selecting the right security solutions but also in evaluating the benefits and detriments of other IT solutions in accordance with their overall security posture. MSPs can provide tremendous value in recommending the right approach and components for each customers’ unique IT and security needs and give insight on security benefits and drawbacks when evaluating adding new technologies like virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) to support emerging business priorities such as supporting hybrid work.
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Top Tips For Making The Most Of Video Conferences
12/22/2021
A video conference can play out very differently from one that you attend live, but it is still a fantastic opportunity for you to network and make some valuable connections. If you will be attending a video conference in the near future, you need to make sure that you go about it in just the right way. Here are some of the things that you need to do to make the most of your video conference.
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21st Century Monitoring
12/20/2021
When Gartner predicted that by “2025, 85% of infrastructure strategies will integrate on-premises, colocation, cloud, and edge delivery options, compared with 20% in 2020,” it was clear that a seismic shift in how we monitor and manage infrastructure was on the horizon. We’d already lived through multiple generational shifts within data centers: from monolithic to client-server; from LAN to WAN; from physical systems to virtualized infrastructures; and even to compute and storage modes that served temporary, containerized workloads. The increasingly distributed and diverse landscape would put even more pressure to meet and exceed availability, performance, and security SLAs.
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Distribution Industry Makes New Strategic Investments
12/20/2021
Understanding where the IT distribution industry is headed begins with the perspective of global, regional, and country leaders in the business. The Global Technology Distribution Council has been capturing such insights for two decades at an annual forum focused sharply on ever-changing market dynamics and ways to continuously strengthen channel partnerships.
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Empowering Workforce Of The Future With Automation
12/16/2021
The working practices have changed radically since the pandemic, but the movement toward hybrid working was already underway. To begin with, remote working was confined to certain limited and appropriate roles, but recent events precipitated an evolutionary leap. Remote working became an option through advances in technology and bandwidth, but it became desirable in the wake of the financial downturn and a necessity during a pandemic.
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ASCII Insight MSPs Share Their Thoughts On The Year That Was And What The Future Holds
12/15/2021
In this article, the following ASCII members answered our questions about what happened in the Channel this past year, as well as what to expect in 2022.
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Operating SAP In The Cloud
12/13/2021
What may have once been considered a pie-in-the-sky idea, the concept of operating SAP in the Cloud has suddenly begun to be seen as “the norm” amongst thought leaders and innovators in the SAP world. The opportunity to achieve major cost savings, agility, stability, and innovation are several reasons why so many businesses are thriving in the Cloud, however, one major factor that seems to prevent businesses from considering the Cloud is the initial cost to begin the journey. So, how do SAP customers leverage the benefits of operating SAP in the Cloud without feeling the pinch of the initial costs encompassing the transition of their systems into a different environment?
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9 Research-Proven Employee Recruitment Strategies That Work For VARs
12/9/2021
Talent acquisition and retention were hard enough before the last two years came along. In 2020, VARs were hit with the disruptive effects of COVID-19. In 2021, a trend called “The Great Resignation” began sweeping the nation and the world with record numbers of employees quitting every month and record numbers of job openings going vacant month after month. If this trend has not impacted your firm yet, we can help you get ahead of it. Even if The Great Resignation has negatively impacted your firm, the Hinge Research Institute can show you how to transform your most pressing recruitment challenges into exciting hiring opportunities, simply by leveraging a few key tips from our employer branding playbook, in this article.
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The Wonderful World Of Liquid Cooling
12/6/2021
In the last article, we discussed the rise in liquid cooling and why it is so important to today’s data centers. This piece will focus on the details about each type of liquid cooling, the benefits and drawbacks of each, and provide some initial guidance as to which option could suit an enterprises’ needs.