A lot of exciting new things happened at this year’s Channel Partners for us! This year was the biggest and best Channel Partners show in recent memory, maybe ever, and we are thrilled to have made a big splash. Even amongst the Tesla's, tricked out Jeeps, and ex-NBA stars, AVANT managed to steal the buzz on the show floor.

In case you missed it, we had ourselves quite an amazing few days at the Channel Partners Conference and Expo in Las Vegas this year! On the heels of being recognized as the largest aggregator of Cisco Powered cloud services, we were honored with the 2015 Distribution Partner of the Year Award from Peak 10, National IT infrastructure and Cisco POwered cloud services provider.

One pressing concern that keeps IT directors for healthcare up at night is regulatory compliance, or their organization’s ability to adhere to specific laws, regulations, and guidelines. After all, the healthcare sector faces challenges related to data confidentiality, making compliance key. 

As we inch closer to 2016, your customers might be feeling overwhelmed by the surge of cloud options emerging in the IT space—from public/multitenant to private to hybrid infrastructure as a service (IaaS) environments. 

We recently came across an article that explains how Healthcare Leads All Industries in Data Breaches for the first half of 2015. From the article: "(T)he healthcare industry had 34 percent of its total records breached, amounting to 84 million data records compromised, the highest rate of any industry."