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Hybrid Cloud Architecture

• Reasons to be positive about 2021

  Optimism across the industry about the year ahead remains good thanks to the ongoing digitisation trend  Continue Reading

• Cloud tops the menu in 2020, with helpings of HCI, security and 5G

  We ask the channel what technologies and trends they see dominating in 2020 – cloud tops the list, with hyper-convergence, security and 5G also featuring  Continue Reading

• Channel predictions: Opportunities in AI, hybrid cloud, edge and security

  Some of the great and the good in the industry have shared their predictions for what they expect in 2020  Continue Reading

• How to help businesses reach their digital goals

  With digital transformation a hot trend in IT right now, the channel’s ability to help organisations hit the sweet spot in this pursuit could attract a lot of attention from potential customers  Continue Reading

• Storage roundtable: Cloud and MSPs

  In the first part of coverage of MicroScope's storage roundtable the debate begins with a focus on the shift by customers towards the cloud and the movement by the channel to become MSPs  Continue Reading

• Cloud and IoT to play key role for distributors

  Forecasts coming out of the Global Technology Distribution Council indicate that there is growth out there for disties if they focus in the right technology areas  Continue Reading

• The opportunities and threats of cloud

  The months ahead will give resellers plenty of chances to make revenue out of cloud but there are dangers for those that get it wrong  Continue Reading

• What's to come? Plenty of cloud and security

  The year is still young enough for the great and the good to be making predictions about just what technologies will make a difference in the months ahead  Continue Reading

• Storage roundtable: The impact of DevOps and cloud

  MicroScope gathered together a group of storage industry representatives to discuss how DevOps and cloud will affect the channel  Continue Reading

• Ingram Micro UK Cloud Summit report

  The channel is at the start of the fourth industrial revolution and the distributor is moving to make sure it is positioned to take advantage of those changes  Continue Reading

• Digital gap opening up between transformers and slow starters

  Digital transformation is happening and those yet to embark on a strategy risk being left behind by competitors  Continue Reading

• Channel can't afford to ignore the cloud

  Billy MacInnes argues that channel partners who turn a blind eye to cloud computing, do so at their own peril  Continue Reading

• 2014/2015: A look back and forward - part one

  MicroScope speaks to industry experts and thought leaders to find out what 2014 meant to them and ask what they see on the not too distant horizon  Continue Reading

• VMworld 2014 key takeaways

  Sean McGrath reflects on VMworld 2014, the issues facing IT professionals and the solutions available to address them  Continue Reading

• How to build customer confidence in cloud computing

  There should no longer be a worry about security and the cloud any more – the technology is out there to make things work  Continue Reading

• Channel opportunities in unified communications

  The good news, whether delivered by voice, IM or video, is that everyone thinks unified communications (UC) is a really good area to get into  Continue Reading

• Cisco Partner Summit: Q&A with UKI partner lead Richard Roberts

  At Cisco Partner Summit 2014 in Las Vegas, MicroScope discussed Cisco Cloud Services, the Internet of Everything and evolving partner opportunities with Cisco UKI partner lead Richard Roberts  Continue Reading

• Resellers demonstrate cloud success

  As customers are starting to realise not only the potential but actual benefits of cloud, resellers can begin to embrace a wealth of opportunity. Linda Endersby looks at cloud success stories from across the customer spectrum  Continue Reading

• Leading the SME to cloud

  Of all organisations, small and medium-sized enterprises have the most to benefit from investing in cloud but few understand how it can help their business, says Billy MacInnes  Continue Reading

• Cloud atlas

  Amro Gebreel reports on how resellers need to help their customers navigate a move to the cloud and why it is not a good idea to avoid the 'elephant in the room' of security  Continue Reading

• Clearing the fog of cloud

  Amro Gebreel looks at how to make a clear pitch with cloud technology amid all the hype and customers' concerns.  Continue Reading

• Selling the cloud to SMEs

  We investigate which areas of business are best for SMEs to move to the cloud and what role the channel can play in implementing and delivering those services.  Continue Reading