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“Hey, I’ve got an idea! Let’s move 40,000 people out of their offices and have them work from home starting tomorrow!”
If someone were to say that to you on a normal day, you’d laugh. You’d be sure they were joking.
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Two of the valuable things you learn during a crisis like the one we’re struggling through are:
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Getting more done, faster, more accurately, all while reducing cost would once be considered a magical balance, but it’s only an “app” away when that app is yours.
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Abandon App Anxiety: Why You Want (and Can Have) Your Own Software!

As we approach Independence Day it is time to stop and remember what we declared independence from, especially now as we face its potential return.
The colonies were part of the British Empire and, therefore, ruled by a King, a singular individual…

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 Event Driven Architecture Table of Contents: Chapter #4: Event Processing Approaches in Event Driven Architecture (You Are Here) Chapter #11: Leveraging a Partner for EDA Success (Coming Soon) If you’ve been following this series of blog…

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Founded in 2001, MEF spearheaded creation of the $80+ billion annual global market for Carrier Ethernet services and technology that involves more than 650 service providers and dozens of technology companies worldwide. One of the key elements of the…

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 The IT channel is in the midst of major disruption. Value-added resellers (VARs) and systems integrators are making the transition to the managed service provider (MSP) model, which relies more on cloud-based services than racking and stacking…

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 Thinking about getting getting into the IT field, but not sure where to start? IT Certifications are the fastest way to prove that you have what it takes to land the job you want. CompTIA Security+ is one of the most recognized industry…

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 Things were very different in the first few decades of the channel. Channel Leaders knew their quota and felt that was the majority of what they needed to know. It could just as easily have been shoes or other products. A…