Ericka Chickowski

10 Reasons Why VARs Should Love Content Security About 23 percent of SMBs have been compromised by employees who accessed personal webmail accounts, according to a survey conducted by Webroot. No Title Webroot also found that about 24 percent of SMBs had been compromised by employees using social networking sites. No Title According to Barracuda […]

Six Vendors Vying for iPad Killer Status 1. Dell While some are proclaiming the little Dell Streak to be an iPad competitor, its awkward 5-inch size (too big to be a smartphone, too small to be a tablet) will be a liability. Dell is more likely to make waves with a 2011 release of a […]

8 Books for Managed Services Success Foundations of Service Level Management by Rick Sturm and Wayne Morris SamsApril 2000Though a fair amount of the content in this primer is directed toward maintaining internal service levels, it also dedicates plenty of information to service providers looking to maintain SLAs. No Title Service Agreements for SMB Consultants—A […]

7 World Cup Mobile Apps Worth the Download ESPN 2010 FIFA World CupAvailable for all the major phone platforms, this app offers a wealth of content about the history of World Cup since its start in 1930. It gives users fingertip access to tournament news, live play-by-play, live audio, live commentary and in-game video highlights. […]

10 Fast Facts About The Managed Services Market Analysts with Gartner believe that by 2010 about one-fifth of businesses will own no IT assets, instead turning to IT services. No Title Researchers with AMI Partners believe that over the next five years North American SMBs will increase their spending on remote managed services by 28 […]

Apples Worst Enemies By Ericka Chickowski Microsoft From the acrimonious ‘look-and-feel’ lawsuit that accused Microsoft of stealing the idea of the Windows GUI to the PC-vs-Mac marketing campaign, the rivalry between these two companies is as bitter as ever. HTC Clearly the phone hardware manufacturer struck a nerve with the folks at Apple with its […]

25 Facts Partners Should Know About Apple Apple was founded on April Fools Day in 1976. No Title Its first slogan was "Byte into an Apple." No Title The first product the company sold was just a computer kit, Apple I, which came with a motherboard, CPU and RAM. No Title The Apple IIe spent […]

10 iPad Apps for Work-Life Balance By Ericka Chickowski Not only does the new Apple iPad tablet hold a lot of opportunity for new and improved business applications, but it also has a lot of potential to unleash apps that allow business people to be people again. Channel Insider’s top 10 iPad apps for work-life […]

Pretty Dangerous Format The Rising Trend of PDF Attacks Malicious hackers use the PDF file format’s extended features against users by modifying PDF files in order use them as attack tools that exploit vulnerabilities in the Adobe products that read the files. No Title According to Symantec’s Internet Security Threat Report, researchers at the company […]

10 Trends That Will Change Corporate IT The Rise of the Knowledge Worker: As processes are automated and outsourced, most employees are becoming knowledge workers. No Title Ubiquitous Data: As mobile devices and real-time applications skyrocket, data volume and throughput increases exponentially. No Title Social Media: Customer and consumer interaction habits are changing, as are […]

Failure to Patch One of the number one reasons hackers are so successful today is that they are able to prey upon systems with known vulnerabilities. Partners do a great disservice to customers when they don’t patch in a timely fashion. Misconfiguring Systems Partners should always harden customer systems with good configurations that follow the […]

The Great VeriSign Garage Sale 10 Big VeriSign Sell Offs and Spin Offs Buyer: SymantecBusiness Unit: Security business including Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Certificate Services, the Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Services, the VeriSign Trust Services and the VeriSign Identity Protection (VIP) Authentication Service, plus a stake in VeriSign Japan.Price: $1.28 billionDate: May 2010Symantec views this […]