Born in the Cloud: What Hybrid VARs Need From Vendors

Graze from TalkinCloud. Author: Steph Martin.

As one of the newest members to join CompTIA’s Partner Advisory Council a few weeks ago I was immediately and affectionately dubbed the "poster child" for the Hybrid VAR. Along with my new and somewhat daunting poster child status, the council proceeded to essentially begin the evangelism of the newest buzz term for this mystical technology unicorn and so was born (pardon the pun) the "born in the cloud" partner — also known as me.

Now before I launch into the meaning of what is sure to explode into the newest cliche in an industry well-known for it’s overuse of acronyms and homegrown vernacular, I want to publicly set the record straight (mostly to put my children and friends at ease and dispel the confusion surrounding my miraculous mythological birth with this talk of the ever-elusive concept cloud computing)…

So elusive is this concept, despite years of trying and countless lame drawings and animated, hand-flailing; my baby-boomer mother still glazes over with confusion. I was in fact born in Huntington, New York and from what I’ve been told it wasn’t even cloudy that day. There, that’s better … let’s move on…

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