Ericka Chickowski

Less than a month after naming a new CEO, next-gen firewall developer Palo Alto Networks is reconfirming its commitment to channel growth with an announcement this week of partnerships with some of the biggest managed service providers in the security market. The heavy-hitters on the Palo Alto Networks roster now include BT Global Services, Dell […]

Putting Security Event Data Management to Work The most commonly asked for advancement of features is the ability to analyze data in multiple ways and for non-standard data analysis, named by 62 percent of respondents. No Title When they initially started their deployments, only 47 percent of organizations used SIEM for real-time monitoring and 55 […]

Eight Travel Apps for Smooth Sailing GateGuruWhen every terminal looks the same as the last, Gate Guru guides the way. This handy utility directs travelers to the nearest gate amenities and allows users to rate shops, restaurants and more so that you know just where to stop for grub or toiletries before stepping on the […]

Partners are holding their breath following HP’s (NYSE:HPQ) multiple bombshells last week — buying software vendor Autonomy for $10 billion, looking to sell off its PC business and abandoning webOS and dumping its Touchpad tablet and smartphones. While most channel experts expect the ripple effects to travel far with these moves by HP, it is […]

The managed services market is exploding and one of the first signs to show the good news is a huge uptick in remote monitoring and management (RMM) software and managed service platforms for managed service providers (MSPs). This week both Connectwise and N-able Technologies touted its success with MSPs, throwing open their kimonos on 2011 […]

SMB IT Spending Inside the Mind of Small Business Owners Within the next three years, the U.S. SMB tech support market will be worth more than $15 billion, according to analysts at Parks Associates. No Title IDC predicts that SMBs will spend more than $125 billion on advanced technology in 2011. No Title That’s $5 […]

Worried IT Professionals Pose Risk to Data Nearly 40 percent of IT professionals believe that senior management doesn’t really know or understand how much data information professionals can access within their organizations. No Title Over 78 percent of respondents reported that they’d be able to take sensitive information with them if they lost their jobs. […]

iPhone or Free Coffee The Workers Have Spoken 58 percent of workers said they’d give up free coffee in lieu of being able to use their own device in the workplace. No Title 39 percent said they’d forgo free food if they could bring their devices to work. No Title 26 percent said they’d give […]

Autotask Ever since it first started sniffing around the remote monitoring and management (RMM) market , Spiceworks has been siphoning SMB prospects and customers away from Autotask. Now with its Request for Quote service, Spiceworks is at it again, competing with Autotask’s VARStreet program. IT Toolbox In the process of supporting its IT administrator users, […]

25 Facts About Spiceworks 1. Spiceworks was first founded in 2006 by Scott Abel, Jay Hallberg, Greg Kattawar, and Francis Sullivan, who brought experience from Motive Inc, Tivoli Software, Apple, and NeXT to the table. No Title 2. The company first started with the goal to round up 3,000 users in the first year. Instead, […]

No matter what the platform, migration is almost always a bear for both customers and channel partners alike. As the channel continues to help customers migrate to Microsoft Exchange 2010 from older versions, many have found that Microsoft has done a decent job at providing seamless transition through its Migration Wizard tool–with one big caveat. […]

CA Technologies made a big splash in the cloud market this week with the launch of a spate of new updated products targeted to both enterprise customers and service providers interested in building out their public and private cloud offerings. Instrumental to the offerings is an integrated but free-flowing cloud system that avoids the kind […]