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  • IT Budgeting and Priorities What Your Customers Are Thinking

    IT Budgeting and Priorities What Your Customers Are Thinking   No Title The uncertainty in the market may be tough for those in the channel, but if a new survey of CIOs and executive IT leaders conducted by the Society for Information Management (SIM) is to be believed, spending will largely hold steady or even…

  • Barracuda Acquires Cloud Security Vendor Purewire

    Barracuda Networks is biting into the security services market with its acquisition of Purewire, the 18-month-old juggernaut in cloud-based security. The deal is a cash and stock transaction. Barracuda and Purewire are both private companies, and the value of the acquisition is not being disclosed. Purewire, which provides Web filtering, content security and security traffic…

  • McAfee Commits to Services Through Partners

    Over the last five years, McAfee has amassed a huge cache of security technologies that span the gamut of consumer endpoint protection to enterprise risk management systems. Its one weak spot: professional services. But the world’s largest pure-play security company isn’t going to develop its professional services. Rather, it plans to push more of its…

  • ConnectWise Jumps Gun on OnForce Alliance

    PSA vendor ConnectWise announced today an integration with online IT marketplace OnForce, and then ConnectWise retracted the press release, saying it was erroneous. Both companies acknowledged to Channel Insider today that the release was a mistake. "We’re aware of the erroneous press release regarding a joint integration and regret any confusion," Maria Battaglia, senior vice…

  • ASCII, Cetrom Partnership Addresses Cloud Interoperability

    The ASCII Group is partnering with Cetrom Information Technology to deliver seamlessly integrated and customized cloud computing services that solution providers can brand and resell as their own. The program will enable members of the ASCII Group, a collaborative community of solution providers, to gain access to discounted cloud-based Microsoft and other application and hosting…

  • IT Association CompTIA Acquires MSP Partners

    Looking to expand its reach and capabilities in serving the managed services market, IT trade association CompTIA announced plans Wednesday to acquire a counterpart association, MSP Partners. CompTIA officials characterized the deal, for which financial terms were not disclosed, as just the latest piece of a broader effort to engage with other organizations serving the…

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