Recent Articles
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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…
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NEC Wants More Than ‘Big in Japan’
It’s the biggest hardware and software vendor you’ve never heard of. Its large-scale integration (LSI) chip and embedded DRAM technology drives Nintendo’s Wii gaming console, and the company’s Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) helps law enforcement — real and on prime-time TV shows like CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: New York and CSI: Miami —…
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The Channel and Taxation
New York and California are looking to ease budget woes by sniffing around the Internet for increased tax revenue. Not surprisingly, both states face stiff resistance. Little else riles Americans more than tax-increase proposals. In New York, legislation went into effect this month requiring big Internet retailers such as Amazon and Overstock to charge tax…
