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Tweet We’ve all seen the action movies where a competent thief is out to steal an expensive artifact, money, or important information. They must navigate and hack hi-tech security systems, computers, secure doors, alarms, cameras, or even complex webs of lasers. Although, scaling walls and jumping over lasers is typically reserved for the movies, businesses [...]

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Tweet For many years, when an important meeting was required with a non-local customer or colleague, business people had two options: travel to the other’s destination or pick up the phone. Businesses were constantly weighing the benefit of face-to-face collaboration resulting in better decisions made and business won versus the cost of airfare, hotel, cars, [...]

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Tweet Networking is a term that is thrown around the tech industry just as much as it is at career counseling events. No matter how different the terms’ denotations may be, they are exactly the same at the core. Networking, in both settings, is about connectivity. As new jobs are born in innovative industries, and [...]

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Tweet The benefits of transitioning partners to the cloud have been discussed ad nauseam–there are significant opportunities for value add services, recurring revenue streams and annuities, and so on. But what has been a key area of focus for us at AMI-Partners has been the topic of partner enablement. That is, how can vendors support [...]

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Tweet I think it is safe to say that the gap of time between the advent of any particular breakthrough technology is narrowing as society becomes accustomed to the rapidly changing industry and the profit potential embedded therein. The need for businesses to stay productive is no exception, hence the influx of enterprise-wide productivity suites [...]

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Tweet My personal smartphone currently holds close to 80 applications, of which I use about a fourth on any given day. While on-the-go, I can tackle numerous functions through a variety of application types, from business to games, and everything in between. Smartphones are not truly smartphones without connectivity, and that doesn’t merely stop at internet access. [...]

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Tweet Support for Transition to Annuity Revenue Streams and Complementary Services is Becoming Critical Microsoft’s recent announcement at its Worldwide Partner Conference of changes to Office 365 partner sales agreements is indicative of a realization on the part of cloud vendors of the need to commit more “skin-in-the-game”.  Microsoft is not alone in this because [...]

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Tweet I recently wrote a blog about progresses in security within the cloud.  I think the blog spoke well to how the cloud will quickly adapt to be compliant and store private, secure data for the businesses that are restricted by that compliance, but it did not address several other areas of concern for a [...]

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