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Core Security Extends Impact Product Line
Core Security Technologies this week rolled out a new wares aimed at giving users greater breadth and depth of testing options. The vendor introduced Core IMPACT Essential along with version 7.6 of its flagship product which will now be known as Core IMPACT Pro. Collectively, the two products will now support a comprehensive set of…
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CompTIA and OnForce Team to Raise Skill Levels of IT Service Professionals
The Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA), and OnForce, a marketplace for IT service professionals, announced today that they are working together to bring training and certification opportunities to more than 12,000 IT technicians. The pair will collaborate on a number of programs aimed at raising the certified technical skills of IT professionals and helping them…
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Breaches, Flaws and Security, Oh My!
With all the high profile security breaches in the retail sector and well-documented flaws in DNS servers there is probably not better time than the present to be in the security assessment business. Just about every customer on the planet right now is realizing that its security posture is probably not as strong as…
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VMware Woos System Builders
Even as small and midsize business favorite Microsoft gets set to launch Hyper-V, its free virtualization offering, virtualization market leader VMware is preparing for the new competitor by creating a program to attract system builders. And the program’s ability to attract those board designers could have a big effect on who wins the next battle.…
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Avnet Reports Flat IT Sales
Broad line distributor Avnet reported that its Technology Solutions group sales reached $1.95 billion in the fourth quarter of 2008, up 9.9 percent year over year but flat on a pro forma basis that excludes currency conversions and acquisitions. Technology Solutions is the company’s IT distribution arm. Avnet said sales in Asia for Technology Solutions…
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Novell Loses its Channel Chief
Eight months after she joined Novell as global channel chief, Pat Bernard has left the building. A Novell spokeswoman said Bernard left to "pursue other interests." The company offered no further information about the circumstances surrounding Bernard’s departure. Novell is "actively searching for a permanent replacement" for Bernard, officials said. Meanwhile, Tim Wolfe, president and…