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ABSTRACT:
With the continued evolution of the IT industry, Channel Professionals have rightly identified managed services as a way to offer timely, valuable services with attractive margins. Data convergence, government compliance, IT infrastructure consolidation and environmental conservation are market forces that have influenced the next wave of professional services: power management, system and storage resource management, security management, data integrity auditing and management, virtual infrastructure management and back up services. This pocket E-guide is a quick and highly useful read for any Channel Professional interested in managed services.
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Authors
Mike Jude
Greg Schulz
Greg Schulz is founder and senior analyst with the IT infrastructure analyst and consulting firm the StorageIO group. A 25-year IT veteran, Greg has worked as an IT customer, vendor, author and industry analyst. He has worked with applications, servers, databases, networks, storage, DR/BC, performance and capacity planning and associated management tools in IBM Mainframe, OpenVMS, Unix, Windows and other environments. Greg is also the author and illustrator of the book Resilient Storage Networks. (Elsevier) and has contributed material to Storage magazine and other TechTarget publications. Greg holds degrees in computer science and masters in software engineering from the University of St. Thomas.
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