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Managed Security Market to Double by 2015
Managed Security Service Providers are thriving in the North American market as businesses struggle to keep up with data security concerns and compliance mandates, analysts with Frost & Sullivan announced Thursday. Even as other IT products and services are seeing declines or flat sales figures, Frost & Sullivan reports that MSSPs will continue to experience…
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Managed Services: Time to Grow Up?
Pundits love to surmise the state of technology markets: What’s up, what’s down, what’s still to come. A particular favorite is the topic of managed services. Despite its prominence in headlines for nearly five years now – and a whole predecessor market that included the failed ASP model – the state of managed services is…
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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…