Billions of edge and IoT devices are flooding the Internet. Fog computing offers greater control and management than conventional cloud computing. Getting these devices and services to market is the bigger challenge....
Channel consolidation is causing partners to think more about their valuations. Consequently, they’re dropping transactional, low-margin products to bolster their bottom lines, and that has consequences for vendors....
Rod Baptie, president of Baptie & Co., has long talked about the potential power of specialized channel partners. Even with this influx of non-traditional partners, he believes the IT channel is still in the early days of leveraging specialized channels....