Recent Articles
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Are You A Security Threat to Your Clients?
By Mike Semel Are you protecting your clients from… you? As a managed service provider your company has the highest level access to your clients’ networks. You pride yourself on your honesty and integrity, and think that your employees would never do something to hurt you or a client. Besides, even if someone left your…
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N-Able Technologies Appoints Former Cognos Exec Chairman of the Board
Remote network and systems management software vendor N-Able Technologies announced that enterprise software industry veteran Alan Rottenberg has been appointed chairman of the company’s board of directors. Rottenberg held several senior management roles at Cognos, now owned by IBM, from 1989 until 2002 including senior vice president roles in marketing and business strategies, business intelligence…
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Don’t Sit Out The Cloud
This time you can’t afford to hesitate. When managed services were taking off six years ago, a great many solution providers sat on the sidelines trying to get a sense of where the trend would lead. But with cloud-based services, sitting around may well put the future of your business in jeopardy. You see, while…
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Intel vPro Tools Get Better Management, Security
FRAMINGHAM, Mass.—When Intel starts shipping its newest "Sandy Bridge" PC processors later this quarter, the chips will come with the latest generation of the company’s vPro on-board management and security capabilities that now will include the ability to lock down lost or stolen PCs via a 3G text message. Intel officials have put on demonstrations…
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IBM Recruiting MSPs, SAAS Providers
IBM is quietly working to build its MSP channel by creating programs to help traditional VARs add or migrate to the emerging business model and also by recruiting MSPs to its traditional channel program. The quiet moves come amid a time when IBM and other big vendors are talking in broad terms about the cloud…