Ericka Chickowski

The seven heaviest hitters in the Google Apps Marketplace for IT management applications are uniting to form a new group called the Cloud Alliance for Google Apps to pool resources to offer better marketing and education campaigns to increase business awareness and help users identify the best-of-breed applications for their needs and to speed up […]

This week CompTIA let it be known that it’s looking for a few good companies to enlist in an effort to put U.S. military veterans to work in the tech industry after they’ve served. The IT industry group launched a new corporate registry of companies committed to hiring soldiers, sailors and Marines in civilian jobs […]

Managed service providers, system integrators and other solution providers belonging to the ASCII Group recently got their hands on a new financial lifeline thanks to the industry association’s partnership with GreatAmerica Leasing. Together the two began offering in October a new suite of leasing and financial options for partners belonging to the group. According to […]

The makers of the Quosal sales quote and proposal platform have released a new mobile add-on that will make it possible to use its visual quoting feature within its Order Porter software for the iPad. The goal is to help resellers and IT service provider sales staff members who spend more time on the road […]

It’s official. IT management software developer SolarWinds is formally setting its sights on managed service providers (MSP) following an announcement recently that it’s releasing software targeted specifically at the services crowd. A long-time favorite among MSPs, SolarWinds produces a downloadable suite of products for application and server, network, storage resource, virtualization and log management. Leveraged […]

Symantec announced today that it’ll beef up its SMB Specialization for partners with new security and backup tracks to give them even more firepower to go after the critical small business segment of the security market. Symantec’s new changes give SMB-focused partners the opportunity to earn exclusive financial benefits by focusing on either the security […]

Incoming IBM CEO Virginia Rometty 10 Career Facts Rometty currently works as senior vice president and group executive of IBM Sales, Marketing and Strategy, a role that has had her directly accountable to Palmisano for IBM’s $99 billion in revenue. No Title Rometty has hardly flown under the radar prior to the announcement–she’s made Fortune […]

Top Tales of IT Terror It Came From the DeepThe data recovery experts at Kroll Ontrack once received a laptop that had been absolutely soaked in saltwater. The story goes that the guy who owned the notebook had brought it with him on vacation so he could catch up on email on the beach. At […]

Oracle announced that it has agreed to acquire Bozeman, Mont.-based cloud services firm RightNow Technologies for $1.5 billion in a deal that should  close sometime at the end of this year or early 2012 and which likely positions Oracle to better pit itself head-to-head against Salesforce.com. The acquisition is a huge win for the education-heavy […]

Divorce More Pleasant Than Data Security Responsibility 10 percent of IT pros say that divorce or separation would be less stressful than being responsible for company’s confidential information. No Title 29 percent of those surveyed said a minor car accident would be easier than being pinned down for corporate security issues. No Title 27 percent […]

The Eight Riskiest Mobile Devices In Need of Protection Android DevicesAndroid’s open source software is something that gives the platform great appeal, but it is also the basis of its vulnerability. Users may enjoy the freedom to acquire apps both inside and outside the Android Market, but it doesn’t come without risk. –Troy Gill, security […]

This week at the McAfee SecurityAlliance Partner Summit, the company finally rolled out its first product co-developed by its acquirer of nine months, Intel, and announced that it would be launching some new channel initiatives for partners while at the same time culling a number of inactive partners to better support  the consistent producers. "We […]