Channel Insider Staff

(Reuters) – Google Inc introduced software to make it easier for businesses using Microsoft Corp’s Outlook to switch to its Web-based communications and collaboration products. The Internet company said on Tuesday that its new software can easily transfer data from a Microsoft Exchange server to Google’s cloud-based online service. The new product allows business users […]

Trend Micro has unveiled a new release of its data loss prevention (DLP) solution, LeakProof 5.0, with added features and benefits designed to reduce the complexity and cost often associated with the discovery, monitoring and blocking of sensitive data. LeakProof is designed to protect information such as customer and employee data, as well as intellectual […]

McAfee has tied its next generation of firewall products into its ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) management software. The security vendor has also opened up ePO to integrate third-party partners’ products into the management frame. McAfee Firewall Enterprise (formerly Sidewinder), McAfee Firewall Enterprise Control Center and McAfee Firewall Enterprise Profiler were designed to be more easily managed […]

The application landscape has changed over the years and yet the firewall hasn’t. With this in mind, Palo Alto Networks is telling customers and channel partners its’ new PAN-OS 3.0 software for its firewalls is designed to supersede the ‘find it and kill it’ model other security technologies are based upon. "Any application can use […]

The storage software market had its first year-over-year decline in more than five years according to IDC’s latest Worldwide Quarterly Storage Software Tracker. The market experienced its first decline in 21 consecutive quarters of year-over-year growth in the first quarter of 2009 (1Q09) with revenues of $2.8 billion, representing minus-5.2 percent growth over the same […]

Microsoft will begin to roll out changes to the Microsoft Partner Program at the Microsoft Partner Conference in New Orleans in July. The changes will include a new name and rebranding of the program. Soon to be rebranded as the Microsoft Partner Network, the program will build on existing resources and initiatives but will make […]

(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp’s chief software architect said on Thursday the profit margins on providing online services — broadly known as cloud computing — would likely yield a lower profit margin than the company’s existing software business. "The margins on services are not like the margins on software, so it (cloud computing) will increase our […]

Intel has signed a definitive agreement to acquire embedded software vendor Wind River for approximately $884 million (US). A leading vendor in developing software for embedded devices, Wind River’s list of microprocessor partners reads like a "who’s who" list of the industry, including Intel and its competitors and partners AMD, IBM, Texas Instruments, NEC and […]

(Reuters) – Apple plans to invest up to $1 billion over the next nine years to build a data center in North Carolina. The data center would represent Apple’s first on the East Coast of the U.S., said Apple spokeswoman Susan Lundgren. Lundgren said Apple is not commenting on how the data center will be […]

FrontRange Solutions, which makes IT service management and infrastructure management software, has simplified its partner program and introduced deal registration. "By enabling our partners with a transparent process for deal identification and management, we can focus as a company on ensuring the optimum solution is being provided to the customer," said Jim O’Gara, vice president […]

The brightest spot in the overall worldwide hardcopy peripherals (HCP) market during the first quarter of 2009 (1Q09) was color laser multifunction peripherals (MFPs). It registered a strong showing of 6% year-over-year growth in a challenging economic environment. According to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Hardcopy Peripherals Tracker, the overall MFP market has fared much better than […]

(Reuters) – Verizon Communications Inc on Thursday unveiled a pay-as-you go hosting service for corporate customers looking to save money by buying only as much computing capacity as they need at any given time. Verizon is the latest U.S. telecom to jump on the bandwagon of so-called "cloud computing" services after AT&T Inc said last […]