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CompTIA Taps CEA Exec as New CEO
Consumer Electronics Association executive Todd Thibodeaux will take over in July as president and CEO of IT trade association CompTIA, according to organization officials. Thibodeaux will take over on July 1 for outgoing CEO John Venator. Venator had planned to step down in 2009, but recently moved up his retirement to care for his elderly…
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Seven Unfortunate Opportunities for VARs
Strength in the Face of Adversity If misery truly loves company, there’s quite a crowd gathering on the world stage right now. Corruption, malfeasance, financial strife, natural disaster and just plain stupidity are combining to make the world a scary place. But behind many gloomy headlines are opportunities for VARs to lend a hand and…
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IT Spending Ignores Biggest Security Threats
While companies identify their biggest IT security problem as how users access the internet, they typically ignore that problem when spending their security budgets. That’s according to a new survey of more than 300 IT professionals conducted by CDW. And the disconnect doesn’t stop there. The study identified other crucial areas as well that were…
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Flying the Social Networking Skies
Who’s going to be on your flight? Till now, this was a question you probably didn’t bother to ask yourself. But a new social networking site, www.skylounge.com, may well change that. The site focuses on business travelers who “do not like leaving anything up to coincidence.” Individuals log on to the site to share information…
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Managed Services, the Open Source Way
In a perfect world, managed services providers (MSPs) would do the brunt of their work remotely. Site visits would be limited to physical equipment installations and how-you-doing sessions with customers. In the real world, interoperability and integration issues with some technologies get in the way of managed services nirvana. Security vendor Untangle believes the answer…
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The Great Certification Circus
The general consensus these days is that the value of IT certification is in decline. It’s little wonder given the fact that the vast majority of the vendor community thinks of certifications as a fee to be imposed on the channel that helps weed out solution providers that are not worthy of their attention. From…
