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Nimsoft Snags Indicative to Take On Big Management Rivals
Nimsoft on April 8 will bring new business service management functions into its fold when it announces its plans to acquire Indicative Software. The privately held Nimsoft bills itself as a cheaper and simpler alternative to larger vendors’ offerings for monitoring the availability and performance of networks, servers, databases and applications. The "Big Four" vendors in this field…
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Is Microsoft Finally Taking Security Seriously?
For some time now, the channel has always had a problem putting the words security and Microsoft together in a sentence. Whether or not Microsoft deserves the reputation for a lack of secure products is a debate that rages on throughout the industry; it all comes down to perception. People today perceive Microsoft’s products as…
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Cisco Sets Sights on the Data Center
Cisco is hoping to transform the data center and is relying on its partners to help in what the networking vendor said is a $14 billion opportunity. Speaking at its Partner Summit in Honolulu April 8, Cisco said it intends to double sales of hardware into the data center in the next five years to…
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Security Channel May Be Heading for a Contraction
A few years back there was a mass migration in the channel to security technology as solution providers, driven by a hunger for more profitability, looked for new areas where they could find higher margins. Most were responding to the fact that the number of solution providers selling network infrastructure had ballooned so much that…
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IBM Federal Suspension Timeline
Friday, April 4 — The General Services Administration issues a statement saying that the Environmental Protection Agency has lifted the suspension which banned IBM from participating in any new contracts with any federal agencies. IBM says it will resume its participation immediately, and will continue to cooperate with government investigations. Thursday, April 3 — Reversing…