Year: 2006

  • Websense Moves into Leakage Prevention with PortAuthority Buy

    Websense Moves into Leakage Prevention with PortAuthority Buy

    Matt Hines

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    Security software maker Websense announced Dec. 20 that it has signed an agreement to acquire data leakage prevention specialist PortAuthority Technologies for approximately $90 million in cash. Through the deal, Websense is attempting to expand its footprint beyond the malicious content identification sector and offer security tools that provide enterprises with both external protection for… Read more

  • Cisco to Buy Digital Signage Startup

    Cisco to Buy Digital Signage Startup

    Jessica Davis

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    Adding digital signage to its portfolio of digital media products, Cisco Systems has announced plans to acquire Tivella. The acquisition will enable Cisco to extend its digital media system, launched in September, to work with plasma and LCD televisions and other displays not attached to PCs. Cisco’s initial digital media system product enables video on… Read more

  • Managed Services: The Franchise Approach

    Managed Services: The Franchise Approach

    Jessica Davis

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    Some VARs looking for a quick entry into the fast-growing managed services space may be considering the purchase of a franchise. That’s the idea behind TeamLogic IT, a franchisor launched two years ago after founding company Franchise Services concluded, based on commissioned market research, that virtually all SMBs (small to midsize businesses) are struggling with… Read more

  • Four Companies Join Archivas Partner Program

    Four Companies Join Archivas Partner Program

    Brian Prince

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    Four VARs announced a channel partnership Dec. 18 with Archivas, a leading provider of digital archiving solutions. Paragon Systems, Kinney Group, Regan Technologies and TriAxis Storage Solutions have joined the Archivas Partner Program, enabling all four companies to include ArC (Archivas Cluster) archiving software in their solution portfolios. ArC software is a comprehensive preservation, compliance… Read more

  • Cradle of Opportunity

    Alison Diana

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    As part of a program to put a PC in every home in Egypt, a powerful team of integrators, developers and the government are banding together. And it appears success is imminent. “We have taken long and steady steps toward achieving our goal of becoming an information society, but we feel that this is only… Read more

  • Microsoft Increases SSA Partner Incentives to 30%

    Microsoft Increases SSA Partner Incentives to 30%

    Jessica Davis

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    Microsoft has increased channel partner incentives and broadened the eligible deals for its four-month-old Security Software Advisor program. The Redmond, Wash., software company said it will pay advisory fees of up to 30 percent of the retail price to eligible security channel partners, up from 20 percent plus bonuses, and expand the program to cover… Read more