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IBM, McAfee Beef Up Security Portfolios

This week saw another milestone in the consolidation of the security information and event management (SIEM) market with the acquisition of not one but two major players. On Tuesday, IBM announced that it would buy Waltham, Mass.-based Q1 Labs and McAfee made a similar announcement of its own acquisition of Portsmouth, NH-based Nitro Security. According […]

Oct 6, 2011
Google Relies on Partners for Cloud Transformation

Google is doubling down on its channel strategy with its recent unveiling of its Cloud Transformation Program, in which the company is using partners to deliver value-added services built around Google’s cloud portfolio. The program will start out with six select partners participating, but Google intimates that it will expand to more as it gains […]

Oct 6, 2011
Malware at Work The Facebook Threat

Malware at Work The Facebook Threat 63 percent of respondents believe that employee use of social media puts their organizations’ security at risk. No Title Just under 30 percent of organizations think they have the necessary security controls in place to mitigate or reduce this risk. No Title Only 35 percent of organizations currently have […]

Oct 4, 2011
Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Built for MSPs

Oracle kicked off a busy Oracle OpenWorld yesterday with the launch of Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c and a new set of features for Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) designed to help partners get the most out of the platform. The new OPN resources made available this week include updated OPN Specializations, a new Oracle Enterprise Manager Extensibility […]

Oct 4, 2011
Capgemini, SAP Team on Managed Mobility Platform

SAP announced that it is teaming with long-time partner and consulting powerhouse Capgemini to roll out a new line of software as a service and platform as a service mobility solutions based on the Sybase Managed Mobility platform, many of which will support the overall push by SAP to support mobile access to its back-end […]

Sep 30, 2011
Level Platforms Intros an MSP Certification

Canadian remote monitoring and management (RMM) firm Level Platforms this week introduced a new certification program for its managed service provider (MSP) partners that will signal to customers a certain level of proficiency in the firm’s Managed Workplace RMM platform. In order to attain the new LevelTech certification, partner employees will have to go through […]

Sep 29, 2011
The State of IT Security and Budgets at Midmarket Companies

The State of IT Security and Budgets at Midmarket Companies More than half of executives believe that security breaches within their organizations have increased during the last year. No Title 27 percent of executives said their organizations suffered a breach by unauthorized internal access in the last year. No Title 20 percent reported experiencing an […]

Sep 28, 2011
Industrialized, Low Cost IT Services The New Norm

Gartner this week touted the adoption of industrialized, low-cost IT services (ILCS) as one of the best ways CIOs can reduce the cost of keeping the lights on in the coming years. A subset of both managed services and cloud services–certainly leveraging the benefits of cloud architecture–ILCS is best seen in the burgeoning infrastructure utility […]

Sep 28, 2011
Managed Security Services Continue Growth Pace

New research out from market analysis firm Infonetics Research showed that in spite of a stagnant economy, managed security services are experiencing a brisk rate of growth with no signs of letting up through the next few years. In 2011, Infonetics believes that the managed security market will reach 13 percent growth. By 2015, Infonetics […]

Sep 28, 2011
SonicWALL Woos MSPs with New Partner Program

Network security vendor SonicWALL rolled out a new managed service provider program this month that it says will provide MSPs more flexible monthly service billing and give them better tools to manage their SonicWall-enabled service portfolio. "At SonicWALL, we continuously strive to drive technology, but we also understand the business challenges that our partners are […]

Sep 28, 2011
Nimbula Updates Infrastructure as a Service

Silicon Valley cloud firm Nimbula updated its Infrastructure as a Service Platform (IaaS) platform today and unveiled a number of new partnerships in order to give users more simple control over their compute and storage resources. Immediately available, Nimbula Director 1.5 now supports a geographically distributed cloud, offering users the ability to manage a multi-site […]

Sep 27, 2011
IBM Offers Cloud Training, Resources to Partners

This week IBM locked its targets in on enabling its channel to take better advantage of the cloud by rolling out a new initiative that it says will provide partners the means to improve their cloud skill sets and minimize the steps required to start selling cloud-based solutions. Offered initially as a pilot program to […]

Sep 23, 2011
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