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SecureWorks Finalizes Deal to Purchase VeriSign Managed Security Services Business
After a fledgling start in the SMB space 10 years ago, SecureWorks yesterday cemented its standing as a top-flight managed security services provider with its closing on the acquisition of the Managed Security Services division from VeriSign. Announced this May, the deal brings much of VeriSign’s security business under the SecureWorks banner, but not…
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MSP Success: Connecting Point Stresses Uptime
Las Vegas-based solution provider Connecting Point doesn’t sell its customers managed services. After all, not even the people who build managed services can agree on a definition of the term. If those who sell managed services can’t agree on what it means, then will customers understand the term? No, and that’s why Connecting Point sells…
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Gartner: Still No Economic Recovery for IT Spending, Sales
Gartner is now forecasting a 6 percent decline in IT spending for 2009, representing a more significant decline than the market research firm’s previous forecast of a 3.8 percent decline. Gartner says that all four major segments of IT spending will experience declines—hardware, software, IT services and telecommunications. "While the global economic downturn shows signs…
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The Cloud`s Complex Future
A couple of weeks ago, I mused about the role of solution and managed service providers in the rapidly evolving cloud computing world. Cloud computing is, without a doubt, fast becoming more than just a theory but a preferred reality for the delivery of applications and services. And everywhere I go, everyone from large integrators…
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Tone Software Rolls Out Partner Program for MSPs
Tone Software Corp., an Anaheim, Calif.-based provider of end-to-end monitoring and management solutions, launched the ReliaTel-Streamline Partner Plus Program, providing managed service providers (MSPs), integrators, value added resellers (VARs) and channel partners with strategic sales, marketing and engineering support, the company says. The program is designed to empower Tone’s ReliaTel-Streamline MSP partners to build managed…