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June 04, 2012

Cloud Computing Changing Channel Business

Cloud computing is changing the partner business, a study by CompTIA suggests. About 63 percent of respondents indicated that they would, in the next 12 months, be shifting from premises-based to cloud-based delivery of information technology products.

 In some ways, those changes are part of a broader shift from transaction-based hardware sales to managed services and recurring revenue models that has been underway for some years.

 There also appears to be clear differences in the channel. About 30 percent of younger firms in existence for four years or less say they will focus on managed services over the next year, compared to 60 percent of firms that have been in operation longer... Read More

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