Ericka Chickowski

The market’s leading Exchange hosting provider, New York-based Intermedia, announced this week that it will roll out the first ever new hosting service for Microsoft Exchange 2010 with an attractive new twist: a 100 percent data protection guarantee for customer information stored within Exchange. The guarantee is the first of its kind and could mark […]

One of the biggest ways channel partners can add value to their IT security implementations is to complement technology and consulting with a mature portfolio of security training offerings. As the famous hacker Kevin Mitnick will attest, people are every organization’s weakest link when it comes to keeping systems and data locked down. But what […]

8 Weapons 3Com Brings to the HP Cisco Brawl 3Com Open Network ProgramHP has made it clear that the biggest differentiator it has developed in its battle against the Cisco networking juggernaut is a product base built on an open architecture. 3Com complements this strategy with its 3Com Open Network Program, through which the company […]

Firewall management firm Tufin Technologies recently announced that it plans on expanding into the field of general network management through a clutch of 12 new plug-ins to expand its open extensible architecture. The Israel-based security company is pinning hopes for future success on this architecture, dubbed the Tufin Open Platform (TOP). Introduced last April, TOP […]

Partners on both sides of the HP-3Com fence ruminating over how HP’s massive $2.7 billion acquisition of 3Com will affect their respective plays within the networking market needn’t worry too much—in fact, they should be excited over the possibilities for greater customer choice, according to executives with both companies who explained the motivations and value […]

10 Hot IT Certifications In conjunction with the release of their quarterly IT Skills and Certification Pay Index, the IT compensation experts at analyst firm Foote Partners released its most updated Hot List for IT Certifications. The rankings are based on Foote Partners’ analysis of pay trends and interviews within the industry that help project […]

The number of Web application vulnerabilities shot up by 10 percent during the first half of 2009 compared to the last half of 2008, according to a new report released today by Cenzic. The report pulled together analysis of data compiled from customers using Cenzic’s ClickToSecure, an application security assessment and penetration testing managed service, […]

Microsoft and i365, the Seagate subsidiary built off its EVault acquisition, announced a partnership today for a new multi-platform, cloud-connected data protection solution they say will disrupt the midmarket in data backup and recovery and give Symantec a run for its money. The two companies are teaming up to extend the capabilities of Data Protection […]

Security and storage channel providers converged in Orlando, Fla., this week to meet up with representatives at Symantec for the company’s annual Partner Engage conference. The intensive day-and-a-half event is highlighted by several sneak peeks into Symantec’s channel plans for 2010, including a new demo platform and a newly adjusted renewal incentive plan tweaked to […]

Security information and event management company ArcSight introduced a new log management product this week that it claims will help resellers and other channel partners better sell to both information security and IT operations stakeholders within client companies. The new ArcSight Logger 4 is designed to collect, search and analyze both unstructured and structured data […]

The IT forensics gurus at NetWitness Nov. 4 announced a refresh for the company’s NextGen enterprise network forensics and advanced threat intelligence platform, which they say will improve its marketability in the enterprise market and could make it easier for channel partners to compete with a more complete security offering. "What we’ve done with Version […]

Seven Sure Fire AV Solutions for Win7 Clients After the interoperability nightmares that cropped up after the Vista launch, Microsoft took special pains to work closely with all of its ISVs and hardware partners through its Ecosystems Readiness program in order to ensure smooth user transitions to Windows 7. Included in the mix were Microsoft’s […]