Ericka Chickowski

As the expectations from employees and customers keep rising over how they can use their mobile devices to access and interact with data, CIOS must build the next generation of mobile strategies to meet them, Gartner analysts said at the recent Gartner Symposium/ITxpo event. Due to the rapid shift of business and societal drivers around […]

Looking to help IT decision makers with the tools to get the most out of the leading edge infrastructure today, CA put the focus on CA Cloud 360 this week at CA World. At the center of its cloud plans, CA’s Cloud 360  lets IT analyze service-level performance and manage SLAs, survey and analyze their […]

Workplace of the Future How Technology Will Change the Way We Work 78% of companies currently have less than 10% of their employees working from home more than one day a week, but that number is expected to grow by 2015. No Title Perks companies offer to attract knowledge workers:41% said flexible workplace options39% said […]

Security VAR Opportunity Application Delivery Controllers 42% had a firewall fail due to network-layer Denial of Service (DoS) traffic load in the past 12 months No Title 36% of which failed in application-level DoS attacks. No Title 38% of respondents reported that traditional safeguards understand traffic context and protect against complex, blended threats less than […]

The FBI got an assist from IT security researchers in an operation to shut down one of the world’s longest-running and most-costly botnets that ended last week. In addition to ridding the world of one of its more odious malware infestations, "Operation Ghost Click" also nabbed a brazen criminal consortium of "clickjacking" hackers. The operation […]

Remote monitoring and management (RMM) firm LabTech Software unveiled a new channel partner program that it hopes will allow existing service provider partners to introduce the platform to customers who may also need to add on-premise monitoring to their mix of solutions. LabTech says the new program will give service providers the opportunity to expand […]

Managed service provider (MSP) partners of Symantec are likely to breathe a sigh of relief today after the security and storage company yesterday took the wraps from a new MSP strategy that will have it integrate its products with four major remote monitoring and management (RMM) platforms, as well as creating a program for quarterly […]

Data loss prevention (DLP) vendor Palisade Systems has rolled out a new software development kit (SDK) and specialized cloud and mobile products that it hopes will help cloud service providers, mobile device vendors and channel partners integrate Palisade’s DLP functionality into their solutions. A 100-percent channel-driven company, Palisade says the move should offer greater momentum […]

The rate at which data is being breached, even the most secure organizations seem like they will inevitably be hit by an embarrassing exposure. A recent survey has shown that when it does happen, the damage to a brand can rack up to hundreds of millions of dollars — and yet, nearly half of organizations […]

Zenith Infotech is soldiering on with partner outreach in the U.S. in spite of unsettled controversy lingering over the company’s reputation and prospects following a September default on a $33 million bond payment and a subsequently contentious sell off of its remote monitoring and management (RMM) business a week later. The company announced that it […]

When CSC first landed the work to transform the City of Los Angeles email system from Novell GroupWise to Google Apps in 2009, it was lauded as a signal of major disruption in the productivity software world. But two years later, only a little more than half of the city’s workers are actually using Google […]

Intronis Autotask Reflexion HP Level Platforms Honored by ASCII Group ASCII Group staffers prepare a strong concoction in the gleaming cup. No Title Ted Roller, vice president of channel development for Intronis holds the cup aloft while his cohort Melissa Abreu, Intronis’ customer success manager cheers. No Title Abreu takes a sip. No Title Yes, […]