Year: 2005

  • Unions Step Up Organizing of IT Workers, Outsourcing Fight

    Unions Step Up Organizing of IT Workers, Outsourcing Fight

    Gene Koprowski

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    Is the IT workforce ripe for union membership? Recent splits in several large labor organizations, growing IT pessimism and the increasing strength of offshore outsourcing are fueling new efforts to attract information workers, insiders say. There may be growing support among the workforce for such union representation. A union-backed survey released in late August revealed… Read more

  • Emergency Preparedness a Responsibility for the Channel

    Emergency Preparedness a Responsibility for the Channel

    Pedro Pereira

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    I watched the World Trade Center towers crumble from a 24th floor window in midtown Manhattan. After the initial shock and the ensuing near paralysis, management in my office dedicated a fair amount of energy into preparing a disaster-recovery plan that would allow us to keep operating should our building ever become unusable. Watching the… Read more

  • Gateway Sets Sights on Small Business

    Gateway Sets Sights on Small Business

    Jeffrey Burt

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    Computer maker Gateway Inc. wants to expand its commercial business by focusing on smaller businesses. Gateway, of Irvine, Calif., kicked off the initiative Thursday with the release of a low-end server and a new line of desktop and notebook PCs armed with features that officials say are needed by small businesses with little or no… Read more

  • Disaster Preparedness Remains a Hard Sell for VARs

    Disaster Preparedness Remains a Hard Sell for VARs

    John Hazard

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    This may provide little solace for small and midsize businesses brought down by Hurricane Katrina, but for as little as $20 per month they could have backed up their individual workstations to a Hewlett-Packardsite in Seattle. Solutions like this are out there, said the VARs who provide them and vendors who make them. But SMBs… Read more

  • VARS Play Vital Role in Preparing for the Next Katrina

    VARS Play Vital Role in Preparing for the Next Katrina

    Elliot Markowitz

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    It is unfortunate that a tragic event such as Hurricane Katrina is sometimes what it takes for organizations, large and small, to take a serious look at their disaster planning and recovery strategy. While a catastrophe of this proportion will deeply change and impact thousands of lives forever, it will also destroy companies and put… Read more

  • McAfee Launches Managed Security for E-mail

    Pedro Pereira

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    McAfee this week launched a subscription-based e-mail protection service that gives channel partners an opportunity for recurring revenue. The McAfee Secure Messaging Service, based on Postini Inc.’s Perimeter Manager spam-filtering technology, offers protection against spam, phishing, viruses, inappropriate content, denial-of-service attacks and directory-harvest attacks. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based vendor is offering two iterations of the… Read more