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Category: Podcasts

Comcast’s Acquisition of Masergy May be Good for Enterprises

Comcast recently announced the closing of their acquisition of Masergy, a provider of managed WAN and cloud-based services.  Individually, these weren’t two heavyweights in the ICT arena, but the combined entity might be worth considering for enterprise buyers of ICT. In this 10-minute podcast Deb Boehling, a Partner at LB3, […]

Customer Relationships with Cisco are Complicated and Evolving

If you buy technology and services from a value added reseller (VAR), it’s important that you also have direct relationships with the key product manufacturers – also known as OEMs (short for original equipment manufacturers) – because those are the producers of the products you purchase through the VAR.  Nowhere […]

Get the Most Value from Value Added Resellers

Value added resellers are an important part of the ICT ecosystem, and without them a lot of great products and services would never make it to the enterprise.  But what are value added resellers, or VARs, and why do they exist? Listen to this 10-minute podcast as Ben Fox, one […]

Hardening the Enterprise and Improving Resiliency in the Age of the Cloud

As more applications are being transitioned to the cloud, and as COVID-19 is becoming COVID-21 and the work-from-home scenario is becoming the new normal for many businesses, there is an urgent need for work-from-anywhere to support the modern enterprise organization.  In the era of cloud-first architectures, what are considered best […]

Negotiating and Contracting for Large IT Infrastructure Projects

Enterprises will normally spend a lot of effort to source and negotiate contracts for managed services and outsourcing arrangements.  They don’t, however, always give the same attention to IT infrastructure projects … to their detriment. Listen to this 9-minute podcast as Ben Fox, one of TC2’s Managing Directors, and Joe […]