Year: 2009
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WatchGuard Launches Formal MSP Program
WatchGuard Technologies, a provider of firewalls and unified threat management appliances, today unveiled a formal managed services program for channel partners, providing support and incentives for solution providers that have been or want to use its equipment to deliver remote security services. Many security solution providers and managed service providers have used WatchGuard equipment to… Read more
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Bull’s Eye Awards: MSP Enabler of the Year
Categories: News and TrendsThe Managed Services Enabler of the Year award goes to the software vendor, hosted service provider or master managed service provider that exemplifies excellence in fostering growth and execution in enabling solution and service providers to deliver managed services and grow managed services practices. Awards are given for the following: CHALLENGER recognizes a vendor or… Read more
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Nothing to Fear in the Cloud
In the Army, we commonly used an acronym to describe a persistently common bad or challenging situation. We called it SNAFU – or as many of us know it as “Situation Normal: All [EXPELATIVE] Up.” That’s sort of the feeling I got after reading Bob Faletra’s latest missive, “We Should All be Paranoid.” Faletra, the… Read more
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Apple iMac Demand Creating Delivery Delays
Categories: News and Trends(Reuters) – Apple Inc on Monday said strong demand for its new iMac personal computer had it working hard to keep up, and the company apologized for any delays in deliveries to customers. The new 27-inch iMac starts at $1,699. According to Apple’s online store, the desktop PC ships in 2 weeks. By contrast, the… Read more
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VMware Partners with Academia to Spread VMware Skills
Even as this recession eroded salaries and increased unemployment, top-notch virtualization and VMware engineers have defied the trend, remaining in high demand and getting six-figure salaries. And while certifications don’t necessarily guarantee that you’ll get that kind of a deal—experience and skill factor in as well—they will help land that job or contract. To meet… Read more
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Gridstore Woos MSPs with NAS Offering
After close to two years of preparation in Ireland, Gridstore has opened its doors in Palo Alto, Calif., and is taking the wraps of its first offering targeted at managed service providers. NASg is an enterprise-class storage platform that delivers unlimited storage capacity, network bandwidth and processing capacity on existing Network Attached Storage resources. It… Read more