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Big Vendors Look To Partners To Grow Augmented Reality Business

(NOTE: This story and video were originally posted to CRN.com Jan. 19.)

Augmented reality, the integration of virtual and digital content with real-life surroundings, is quickly gaining buzz.

It's also expected to yield more revenue for technology vendors and solution providers. A report released this week by Technavio projects a combined annual growth rate of 65 percent for the augmented reality (AR) market through 2021, and an even higher 78 percent for mobile devices.

Big Vendors Look To Partners To Grow Augmented Reality Business

(NOTE: This story and video were originally posted to CRN.com Jan. 19.)

Augmented reality, the integration of virtual and digital content with real-life surroundings, is quickly gaining buzz.

It's also expected to yield more revenue for technology vendors and solution providers. A report released this week by Technavio projects a combined annual growth rate of 65 percent for the augmented reality (AR) market through 2021, and an even higher 78 percent for mobile devices.

Beware These 6 Pitfalls Of Cloud Assessments

Raju Chekuri (pictured) is president and CEO at NetEnrich, an IT services provider based in San Jose, Calif.

Any cloud migration project begins with an assessment of the current state of an organization's technology environment, plus goals and requirements. But a cloud migration is less a project than it is a transformation of running IT. This makes doing a proper and well-planned assessment even more important if your customer is planning a partial or complete migration.

The Cognitive Era unfolds: Register for PartnerWorld Leadership Conference 2017

As the year comes to an end and the fourth quarter closes, it’s only natural to take stock of our achievements together. More importantly, it’s time to go beyond that. After all, “business as usual” is a cliché for a reason—in my endless travels around the globe, I’m hearing that you, our IBM Business Partners, are just as excited as IBM about joining us on our journey into the Cognitive Era, where Watson and solutions based on Watson have begun to represent the future of meeting client demand.

Cisco Launches White-Label Meraki Offensive To Drive Recurring Revenues

(NOTE: This story was originally posted to CRN.com Dec. 20.)

Channel partners of Cisco that want to drive more recurring revenue stand to gain from an unprecedented white-label, service-driven initiative the networking giant is undertaking through Meraki.

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