Andrew Sage, vice president of Americas distribution at Cisco Systems, joins Pod2112 to discuss the evolving role and value of distribution from a vendor perspective....
Companies that built the various IT industry segments could always rely on knowing their competition would look and act more or less like them, but that’s no longer true....
The U.S. had 6 million unfilled tech jobs last year, many of them among IT resellers and service providers. Competition between vendors and partners makes filling those jobs more difficult....
Michelle Ragusa-McBain, a customer, partner experience manager at Cisco, and chairperson of the CompTIA Advancing Women in Technology community, joins Pod2112 to discuss the need to support women’s technology careers and the resources available to women who have, or aspire to have, careers in technology....
The takeover of Whole Foods by Amazon rattled the retail grocery world, with many predicting legacy supermarkets already lost to the digital behemoth. The tech market is watching wearily as Amazon encroaches on its turf. It’s time to stop fearing Amazon and embrace it. ...
Just months after divesting of storage management software specialist Veritas, Symantec is doubling down on its security business by buying Blue Coat, which brings revenue, customers, and hardware....
‘Box-pushing’ continues to be a losing proposition for vendors and their channel partners. Find out how solution providers can adjust their focus from hardware to services....
Call it what you will – disruption, continual evolution, or transformation – but taking pains to stay relevant is key to viability in the fast-changing world of technology...