Year: 2005

  • Thermaltake’s Armored Fortress: A PC Case with Substance

    Thermaltake’s Armored Fortress: A PC Case with Substance

    Victor Loh

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    The price of gas isn’t the only thing getting out of hand these days. Loyd Case gave us the breakdown on inflated gaming hardware prices in his Gouging Gamers? story last month, and we’re not expecting relief anytime soon, at least not from the President or foreign producers. So if our components are getting more… Read more

  • Google Turns to Channel to Develop Enterprise Solutions

    Google Turns to Channel to Develop Enterprise Solutions

    John Hazard

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    Google this week entered the channel with the launch of a partner program to advance Google’s search applications behind the corporate firewall. Using Google Inc.’s search appliances – Google Mini and Google Search Appliance —12 initial VARs, ISVs and integrators have developed unique solutions designed to deliver Google’s ability to index and retrieve unstructured information… Read more

  • NFR Expands Channel by Cutting VARs

    NFR Expands Channel by Cutting VARs

    John Hazard

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    More is less at NFR Security. To expand its channel program, the maker of intrusion security and prevention appliances actually cut its partner roster in half. “Everyone thinks more is better,” said Tim Koubek, NFR Security Inc.’s executive vice president of worldwide sales and marketing. “Becoming a partner is as easy as picking up an… Read more

  • Slamming Spam for Free

    Channel Insider Staff

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    Jonathan Zdziarski knows how open-source spam-filtering programs work. He wrote one. Even so, Zdziarski’s creation DSPAM—and similar programs that are designed to get better at their job over time—sometimes gives its creator the willies. It usually happens when the application blocks spam messages that appear absolutely legitimate at first blush. “It gets really accurate after… Read more

  • Get an Edge With Compliance Certification

    Get an Edge With Compliance Certification

    Channel Insider Staff

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    “We are being audited.” This phrase is enough to make your heart race and your blood run cold, be it as a result of a friend telling you about his IRS woes or a client discussing Sarbanes-Oxley, FDIC, Gramm-Leach-Bliley or the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. No matter how you look at it, businesses… Read more

  • Partners Say Shakeup Will Sharpen Microsoft’s Agility

    Partners Say Shakeup Will Sharpen Microsoft’s Agility

    John Pallatto

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    SAN FRANCISCO—Microsoft Technology partners Tuesday said the software giant’s radical reorganization from seven into three major divisions is an important move to reduce costs and improve competitiveness. The partners, who were demonstrating their own technology on the exhibition floor of OpenWorld,—the annual customer conference of yet another partner, Oracle Corp.—said they didn’t believe the reorganization… Read more