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Even with several negative economic indicators nagging workers worried about availability of jobs, new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released late last week and a survey out this week by online employment site Dice show that technology professionals have been more isolated than most from market woes. According to BLS, unemployment only […]

CA Technologies hopes to better help its service provider partners take advantage of its hybrid cloud-enabled backup and recovery solutions with the roll-out today of a new managed service provider (MSP) licensing program for CA ARCserve that offers new pricing options. The company’s second iteration of its ARCserve MSP program will now also include subscription-based […]

Top Paying Business Skills for IT Pros Business Process Management/Modeling/ImprovementTechnology plays a driving role in the automation necessary for impactful business process changes, but if those who deploy it don’t know how the business works in the first place they won’t be nearly as effective at their jobs. No Title Predictive Analytics and ModelingThe more […]

Android Mobile Security A Growing Threat Juniper Global Threat Center measured a 472% increase in Android malware from July 2011 through November 2011. No Title McAfee researchers said Android malware rose by 37% in the third quarter of 2011. No Title Kaspersky Labs reports that Android malware made up 40% of all malware detected in […]

Encryption experts universally lament that it’s not the cryptography that makes encryption hard; rather, it’s keeping track of the keys and all the different encryption software that causes heartburn. Now, Symantec is offering some data to reassure channel partners that it’s not just their imagination. In its 2011 Enterprise Encryption Trends Survey, Symantec found that […]

IT skill certifications don’t hold the same value as they did during rosier economic times, according to the latest report from IT employment and consulting firm Foote Partners.  Global instability and a lack of confidence in the U.S. economy are leading to a flattening of salaries between workers who have IT certifications and those who […]

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As customers turn to solution providers for help with managing their mobile devices, its important for channel partners to carefully calculate which services and solutions they want to offer in order to have a comprehensive–and thriving–business model. There are a lot of strategic decisions to be made that can make or break a mobility practice. […]

Are you the "Channel Partner of No" when it comes to giving your customers what they want from mobile devices? Do you tell your clients that you can’t or won’t help them manage and support up-and-coming devices like iPhones, iPads and Android smartphones? If so, you could be missing out on some lucrative opportunities and […]

According to a new report out last week from McAfee Labs, the rapid proliferation of malware has caused researchers to bump up their estimates for cumulative the number of unique samples to float around the Internet by the end of 2011. In its McAfee Threats Report: Third Quarter 2011, the firm reported that its increasing […]

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