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Talk Back On LinkedIn: Non-Compete Clauses And Work Perks

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Are non-compete agreements standard for your company? And, do you have to get creative with work perks to get the talent you want? These are two of three new posts this week on IT Best Of Breed's LinkedIn page, and we invite you to weigh in.

Do you use non-compete agreements?

Most states allow non-compete clauses in employment agreements, although some have been tested in the courts. Do you use them?

How Solution Providers Can Help Clients Meet The Digital Transformation Challenge

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Meeting the Digital Challenge

Technology industry watchers have been using the phrase "digital transformation" on many occasions recently as a way to describe how businesses need to deploy technology to sharpen their focus on customers, and to exhort IT executives to meet that challenge.

The Value Beyond the Hype: Applying Machine Learning in APT Detection

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Advanced Persistent Threats are the plague of enterprise security, crippling businesses and IT careers through costly data breaches and massive losses. They routinely evade traditional security systems and steal confidential corporate information without a trace.

Talk Back On LinkedIn: How Does Business Make IT Spend Decisions?

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Most IT purchasing decisions within business either originate outside the corporate IT organization or are fully executed outside IT. Does that thrust you squarely in the middle of a conflict? That's just one of three new posts this week on IT Best Of Breed's LinkedIn page, and we invite you to weigh in.

Where do IT procurement decisions come from?

Fortinet, HP Inc., Sungard Availability Services Move to Adopt Recurring Revenue Model. Will Partners Keep Up?

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Fortinet, HP Inc. and Sungard Availability Services have embraced consumption-based or as-a-service sales, but the IT channel has often struggled with supporting an annuity business model.

Forrester Analyst: Customer Focus Spins Tech Buying Decisions In Business

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The development and rise of new technologies, coupled with a business transformation that has become "obsessed" with focusing on customers, is changing how solution providers and tech vendors talk with their customers, a Forrester analyst told solution providers Tuesday.

"It's not a technology conversation anymore; it's a business conversation," Bobby Cameron said during a 45-minute presentation at the Best of Breed Conference in Atlanta, sponsored by The Channel Company, the parent of IT Best Of Breed.

Best Of Breed Conference Preview: Palo Alto's Mark McLaughlin On Security

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In the new world of information security, Palo Alto Networks has stood out with its Next-Generation Security Platform, and it appears to be the fuel that helped drive "unprecedented" growth in its most recent quarter, according to CEO Mark McLaughlin.

Palo Alto ended its 2016 fiscal year with a 49 percent year-over-year revenue jump with $1.4 billion in sales, while its fourth-quarter margins alone grew a whopping 79.4 percent, to $46.2 million.

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