Recent Articles
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Managed Services Survival Guide
If you are reading this article, you’re probably in one of two groups. The first group can best be described as companies who, while they wish the economy would get better faster, are seeing an increase in revenue and their margins are staying steady if not increasing. The second group, feeling the same about the…
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Cablevision’s 101M-bps Broadband a Boon to Hosted Services
One of the biggest barriers to adopting hosted services has been bandwidth. Most businesses have had to pay through the nose to get the bandwidth needed to effectively use a hosted service, while others have found that the speeds needed are out of financial reach. Cablevision, in a roundabout way, is solving that problem for…
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Agent-Driven Managed Services
The tide is finally turning in the managed services market as the convergence of market acceptance and economic conditions is making it more palatable for end users to adopt remotely delivered infrastructure management and hosted applications. Troubling to some solution providers is that they will not be the ones delivering the actual services. Managed services…
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MXLogic Study Shows Managed Services Continue Steady Growth
In an economic climate where “Hello, can I interest you in upgrading your servers?” won’t get solution providers very far, an MXLogic study finds that VARs are finding success leading with managed services to help customers cut costs and increase efficiencies. “You just can’t walk into a CIO’s office anymore with a pitch to upgrade…
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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…