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Channel Insider, OnForce Announce Strategic Partnership
Channel Insider and OnForce, the world’s largest marketplace for IT professionals, have entered into a strategic partnership to share and develop market intelligence and research tools for the IT channel community. The two companies will collaborate on co-branded research reports and other tools aimed at providing IT solution and service providers, as well as vendors,…
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The Rise of Managed Security Services
It’s truly an ill wind that doesn’t blow somebody some good. That seems to be the case with managed security services. As the overall economic environment continues to deteriorate, IT organizations appear to be becoming more amenable to buying managed security services as opposed to trying to find and hire their own dedicated security professionals.…
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Tech Stocks Rebound in Unstable Market
Technology sector stocks rebounded in Tuesday, gaining 4.6 percent on the day following the record-setting sell off on Sept. 29. Of the 50 IT vendors tracked by Channel Insider, only three (Google, Nortel and Red Hat) continued to loose ground. Despite reports that the technology sector remains healthy, industry leaders, including Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, have said…
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Tech Reacts to the Nightmare on Wall Street
CHANNEL INSIDER: IT Solution Providers and the Finance Crisis Wall Street Meltdown: What Does it Mean for IT? A failed bailout plan, Wall Street bleeding more than $1 trillion in value, and no idea of what’s going to happen next. Recent events have given businesses, consumers and government a giant hangover. Some IT…
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Going Nordic: Exploring Managed Services, Hosting Opportunities in Scandinavia
Imagine the map on the wall, close your eyes and point to a spot on the map. As a solution provider looking for new markets, if your index happens to fall on Scandinavia, you might be on to something. You see, the Scandinavian countries of Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland, also often referred to as…
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SolarWinds Redefines Network Configuration Management
Network and IT infrastructure is getting more complex by the day. System administrators are constantly battling the demons of change management and performance degradation. SolarWinds’ latest release, Orion NCM 5.0, gives solution providers a powerful tool that will help their customers achieve network management nirvana. Orion NCM promises to bring network device-configuration control to networks…
