Year: 2007

  • Five ACS Board Members Resign After Feud with Chairman

    Five ACS Board Members Resign After Feud with Chairman

    Sharon Linsenbach

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    Affiliated Computer Services, caught in a bitter battle between members of the company’s board and its chairman, said in a statement Nov. 1 that five board members had resigned after initially refusing to do so. Darwin Deason, chairman and founder of outsourcing provider ACS, asked for the five board members’ resignations verbally the evening of… Read more

  • Oracle Gets Competent

    Sara Driscoll

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    Oracle is bringing its Competency Center training strategy to the United States, following roll out across Europe earlier this year. The vendor, which has admitted recently that shipments through the channel are down, said VARs were finding it challenging to locate all the Oracle training available, and the Competency Center brings its educational and training… Read more

  • SMB Wants and Needs

    Channel Insider Staff

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    A vast majority of SMBs are neither early adopters nor significantly laggard. They tend to wait until the technology is proven in the market with a justifiable return on investment before making major purchases. Source: CompTIA Read more

  • HP Releases Multi-level Security Services for RHEL5

    HP Releases Multi-level Security Services for RHEL5

    Steven Vaughan-Nichols

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    There is security, and then there is Security. HP, with its new multi-level security services for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is now offering Common Criteria certified level security for this Linux on its server and desktops. Common Criteria is an ISO security framework standard. It is frequently required in government computing contracts. It is… Read more

  • Hosted Backup: Friend or Foe of the Channel?

    Hosted Backup: Friend or Foe of the Channel?

    Frank Ohlhorst

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    The online/hosted backup market is about to heat up, especially with the news that EMC has jumped into the market with its acquisition of Berkley Data Systems and its Mozy backup service. What this means for EMC and Mozy’s partners is yet to be seen, but one thing is certain—online backup services are here to… Read more

  • Fast-Growing SP Offers Peek at Acquisition Formula

    Jessica Davis

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    CDW may have been the poster child for reseller mergers and acquisitions in 2007, but plenty of other small and midsize VARs and solution providers have been eyeing mergers and acquisitions, too. And while interest in these transactions is on the rise, not many solution providers are well-versed on how to find the right partners… Read more