Tech Data Authority talked to Jonathan Peyton, Solutions Specialist at CMA Technology Solutions – an award-winning managed service provider (MSP). Hear his insights on leading in the MSP space, the impact of a customer’s word of mouth in building trust with future clients and why CMA values its partnership with NetApp – a leading technology storage vendor.

Over the past month, we’ve explored the drastic change from the very linear vendor-distributor-reseller-end user relationship of the past to the multi-connection, multi-point, multi-directional experience of the future.

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As we discussed in our last blog, today’s complex customer challenges are being simplified by an evolving ecosystem that revolves around solution aggregation, rather than the historic distribution model of individual vendor products.

As we move into a digitized world, what does that mean for the data center? The data center is evolving. Data is not always centralized and we’ve seen that the future of the data center lives in the cloud. Data is everywhere now and the rise of cloud infrastructure and software is changing the way we think about on-premise data centers.

When I hear the word container, I think of a place to put my roasted turkey and provolone on wheat sandwich. The term also reminds me of family road trips when we drive alongside railroad tracks and see trains carrying shipping containers barreling along the tracks.

In a recent story on her LinkedIn page, Tech Data’s Director of Converged and Integrated Solutions, Maghen Hannigan, cites IDCs prediction that by 2025, worldwide data will grow exponentially, resulting in 175 zettabytes, with as much of this data residing in the cloud as in data centers.

We’ve all experienced it at some point in our lives. We join a new team, and someone starts showing us the ropes. We learn what our tasks are and how to accomplish them (usually from a teammate that was completing those tasks previously).

Tech Data Authority had the pleasure of sitting down with two market leaders at AMD: Dennis McQueen, Product Marketing Manager, and Greg Gibby, Sr. Product Manager. Both shared their rich histories in technology, why they joined AMD, and what’s ahead for ground-breaking company in the computer processor space. Read on for more!

Many of us have seen the Will Smith movie “I, Robot” from 2004, getting a science fiction glimpse of what could happen if robots armed with artificial intelligence were in households in your neighborhood doing chores and making decisions between right and wrong. In the make-believe world of science fiction, we were given the opportunity to see AI as having limitless possibilities.

Ben Thompson knows firsthand how devastating it can be to lose data. Twenty years ago, Thompson was finishing his senior year of high school when his computer had a hard drive failure and he lost all the work he’d done for multiple advanced placement classes as well as music he had ripped.