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HP Unveils ProCurve Firewall, Security Ambitions
The pantheon of major security players includes the likes of Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks, IBM, Symantec, McAfee and even Microsoft. Missing among the noted is Hewlett-Packard, which has fielded security products over the years, but not a concerted effort to stake out a piece of the security market. That’s changing, rapidly. Today, HP unveils its…
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Xerox Updates Managed Services Program
Xerox Corp. is introducing Xerox Print Services, a set of services and tools designed to help small and midsized businesses better manage their printing infrastructure and reduce costs. Delivered through the company’s network of channel partners, Xerox Print Services is based on the company’s enterprise managed print services that Xerox provides directly to corporations like…
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N-Able Publishes MSP Training Materials
N-able Technologies is trying to make it easier for channel partners to get into the business of selling managed services with the launch of a new online tool called Business e-Training Essentials. The evolution to the managed services provider business model can be challenging, and although there are an estimate 60,000 channel partners in North…
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MSPAlliance, MSP Partners Clash over Accreditation
A feud, of sorts, is brewing between two of the channel’s largest associations of managed service providers—the MSPAlliance and MSP Partners—over which organization is best positioned to deliver training and certification to providers in the burgeoning managed services marketplace. MSP Partners—an organization founded by Level Platforms, Microsoft, Cisco Systems, Ingram Micro and other vendors—recently announced…
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Dell Goes Direct with Managed Services for Small Business
Dell has announced a managed services solution designed for small businesses and medium businesses that became available April 14 across the United States. The nationwide rollout is the next step in Dell’s direct managed services strategy, which began as a trial in the Dallas and the New York area. Like when it introduced those trials,…