{"id":10365,"date":"2014-03-06T00:32:30","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T00:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/mar\/06\/latest-cloud-research-notes-continued-struggle-channel\/"},"modified":"2014-03-06T00:32:30","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T00:32:30","slug":"latest-cloud-research-notes-continued-struggle-for-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/latest-cloud-research-notes-continued-struggle-for-channel\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest cloud research notes continued struggle for channel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Research from IT services bods MTI has revealed that UK channel businesses are struggling to meet the needs of their demands due to the accelerated growth of cloud computing.<\/p>\n<p>No prizes for guessing the angle of this research; if your instant thought was &lsquo;resellers struggle in a cloud-heavy market, thus they&rsquo;ll need a partner to help monetise&rsquo;, then you&rsquo;d be right. Yet the stats, taken from over 150 respondents with seven in ten resellers, make for interesting reading.<\/p>\n<p>The results show infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is the most common service provided by resellers, with over three quarters (77%) of respondents citing it as a key service for their clients. Conversely, the least popular being managed security services.<\/p>\n<p>For resellers, the biggest challenge over the next 18 months was clear: clients are requesting more complex solutions which is affecting their business. Ranked one to six with one being &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research from IT services bods MTI has revealed that UK channel businesses are struggling to meet the needs of their demands due to the accelerated growth of cloud computing.<br \/>\nNo prizes for guessing the angle of this research; if your instant thought wa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}