VAR White Papers

31. The HR Manager’s Guide To Hiring IT Pros 5/10/2021

    Over the past decade, there have been dramatic changes in the use of technology within businesses. For many years, technology was primarily a tactical endeavor, with IT infrastructure and applications supporting the main activities of the organization. Now, technology has strategic importance, with companies being more proactive in leveraging technology to meet business objectives. This has a significant impact in the way that companies view technology investments and hiring.

32. Webroot 2020 Threat Report 3/3/2020

    As we embark on a new decade, it’s striking to think how many major changes have taken place in the very recent past. Consider this: we’ve been living in the smartphone era for over ten years. If we think back even further, the “cloud” grew from a mere concept in the 1960s to a buzzword in the early 2000s—then into the ubiquitous state of strategic computing today, in which public, private and hybrid clouds are everywhere.

33. Cash Management Solutions: The Emerging Opportunity For POS Dealers 10/22/2014

    If you think credit and debit cards are about to displace cash for retail transactions, think again. Legal tender accounts for as much as 40 percent of transactions overall and up to two-thirds of purchases under $10. So while plastic and electronic payments often have been pegged as the currency of the future, the oft-predicted cashless society is nowhere in sight.

34. Distributed Cloud Computing And Its Impact On The Cabling Infrastructure Within A Data Center 7/8/2021

    Applications such as high-frequency trading, high-performance computing, AI, and gaming are compute intensive and latency sensitive. To process these workloads in the most optimized way, data center operators must move a significant portion of their computational load towards the edge of the network closer to the source of the data. This decentralizing of the cloud creates challenges for data center operators looking for ways to grow the computational power within their data center to meet the demands of these emerging applications. This paper will cover the various applications driving the shift towards edge computing, and how this impacts the cabling infrastructure in environments that are highly space constrained.

35. 3 Steps To Selling DNS For MSPs 10/9/2018

    Threats are everywhere, and endpoint security simply isn’t enough to keep your clients safe. Pairing domain name system (DNS) protection with endpoint security is a proactive way to prevent costly network attacks. Most clients, however, don’t understand the need for this added layer of security.

36. How Secure Is Your Cloud Data? 2/1/2021

    With employees working remotely at higher rates, business data is increasingly at risk.

37. Top 20 Best Tech Cities For IT Jobs 1/30/2020

    The CompTIA Tech Town Index illustrates that IT pros are in demand and have nearly endless options when choosing where to live and work. With overall cost of living an essential to 82% of tech workers, and nearly two-thirds citing weather and commute times as important factors as well, the good news is that tech workers have the opportunity to write their own stories.

38. Calculating Your Insertion Loss Budget 3/30/2021

    Calculating an Insertion Loss Link Loss budget isn’t a new topic. However, tolerances of Insertion Loss (IL) and Maximum Attenuation Allowance have become more important as the speed of data transmissions have grown throughout the years. All of these values are standards driven, available in ANSI/TIA-568-C.0 for performance and test requirements, and ANSI/TIA-568-C.3 for standards on fiber and connectors.

39. Selling Business Technology: 3 Ways YOU Can Be The Value Your Customer Needs 2/12/2018

    Discover how to maximize your sales in the evolving business technology industry. If you are a reseller of payments and POS systems, cloud technology and business solutions, learn which selling strategy you must stop using today, and the strategy to focus on instead to continue to grow your sales as the industry changes.

40. How To Outsell Your Competition Instead Of Yourself 2/5/2018

    VARs and MSPs can discover a new selling approach that works in today’s crowded business technology space. With increasing competition and decreasing product differentiation, resellers and service providers can no longer sell based on product features, an approach that worked in the past. Learn about this new approach that focuses on determining the customer’s needs first.