Featured Articles
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New Year, New Name: Why apgĀ® Chose To Rebrand
12/13/2021
The coming New Year will be rife with change including a new name for one long-standing point of sale company. Effective January 2022, APG Cash Drawer will officially drop “Cash Drawer” from its name and introduce a new tagline to become, apg® – trust at every point.
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9 Research-Proven Employee Recruitment Strategies That Work For VARs
12/9/2021
Talent acquisition and retention were hard enough before the last two years came along. In 2020, VARs were hit with the disruptive effects of COVID-19. In 2021, a trend called “The Great Resignation” began sweeping the nation and the world with record numbers of employees quitting every month and record numbers of job openings going vacant month after month. If this trend has not impacted your firm yet, we can help you get ahead of it. Even if The Great Resignation has negatively impacted your firm, the Hinge Research Institute can show you how to transform your most pressing recruitment challenges into exciting hiring opportunities, simply by leveraging a few key tips from our employer branding playbook, in this article.
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The Wonderful World Of Liquid Cooling
12/6/2021
In the last article, we discussed the rise in liquid cooling and why it is so important to today’s data centers. This piece will focus on the details about each type of liquid cooling, the benefits and drawbacks of each, and provide some initial guidance as to which option could suit an enterprises’ needs.
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How Blockchain And AI Will Affect Businesses In The Next 10 Years
12/6/2021
Two disruptive technologies are gaining more and more prominence that will shape the course of people’s lives and culture over the next ten years: blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI). Both are experiencing expanded use and innovation, but not without some worries concerning how these technologies will be wielded.
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Retaining Top Tech Talent Requires A Continuous Improvement Mentality
12/2/2021
The tech industry, always tasked with driving transformations for its clients and users, is undergoing a transformation of its own. There is currently a significant gap between open technology jobs and the supply of qualified technology professionals in the market, which has resulted in a major market imbalance. Businesses are scrambling to both find and retain talent thanks to the perfect storm of COVID-19-related job burnout, competition, craving a change, and the need to feel valued. A recent survey states that about one-third of the information-technology professionals interviewed said they plan to look for a different job in the next few months. With the rising costs of hiring and onboarding a new employee, it is no wonder that many tech companies are uneasy about the future.
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How To Successfully Monetize SaaS Applications: Building A Software Monetization Approach With The Future In Mind
11/30/2021
The easy path isn’t always the right path. This is sometimes the case when an enterprise software company identifies its strategy for implementing entitlements and license enforcement for software as a service (SaaS) applications. Rather than building something quickly that works for an immediate need, product leaders should approach entitlement management and enforcement with scale, flexibility, and future business models in mind.
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Enhancing 5G/LTE Performance And Security With SD-WAN
11/25/2021
The 5G/LTE mobile network changes the way people do their jobs and connect to corporate networks. It expands the frequency ranges that devices can leverage, giving individuals more access to faster data speeds and better user experiences. To help customers enjoy these benefits, however, partners must ensure this fast, flexible connectivity is built, managed, and secured similarly to other networks. This is where SD-WAN comes into play.
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Riding The Digital Transformation: Why Enterprises Are Reengineering Their Cloud Infrastructure
11/22/2021
Post 2020, how are you approaching the cloud? The rapid and unexpected digital transformation of 2020 forced enterprises worldwide to quickly mobilize workers using cloud resources. Now, as the world returns to an altered normal, it’s time for organizations to revisit their cloud infrastructure components with a fresh perspective. Hybrid work environments, industry transformations, changing consumer behavior, and growing cyber threats have all affected the way we do business. Now it might be time to change your cloud.
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The Ballad Of A Cybersecurity Leader
11/18/2021
Balancing protective strategy with a vision for growth and empathy for staff.
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Finding Keepers: How To Find, Build, And Keep Top Sales Reps
11/15/2021
The “Great Resignation” trend has people voluntarily leaving jobs in unheard-of numbers, their sensing a gap between the life they seek and the path they were on. Addressing your Sales Rep staffing due to the pandemic presents an opportunity to upend recruiting as a front-end transaction, putting in its place a method to manage the life cycle of a long-term Rep. IT Solution Providers’ top needs include 1) increasing sales and 2) finding/keeping top people.