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MSP Partners Opens Advisory Board to Competitors
Vendor-created organization MSP Partners has formed a new advisory board and announced its inaugural members are Autotask, ContractPC, Kaseya and Xerox. Cisco, Ingram Micro, Intel, Level Platforms and Microsoft founded the organization in March 2007 with a mission of providing a comprehensive source of MSP (managed services provider) education. Now, with the addition of an…
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Sun Finally Appoints European Chief
After five months of the position being vacant, Sun Microsystems has finally filled the role of senior vice president of Europe Middle East and Africa. Sun, which has had a tumultuous time of late in Europe, after losing its head of U.K. channel and its U.K. country manager within weeks of each other back in…
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How to Avoid the Next Data Breach
2007 may be remembered as the year of data breaches (unless 2008 surpasses it, which we hope will not be the case). Big names from Disney to Western Union, Fidelity National Information Services and of course TJX were all in the headlines for the wrong reasons. Security, it is often said, is only as strong…
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A Few of My Favorite Things
As January approaches, the time for reminiscing about the year past has come. No, I won’t bore you with the details of family vacations, events, arrivals and passings, but I will tell you about some of the products that left an impression and how those products impacted the channel. All things Microsoft I would be…
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The Future’s Bright, the Future Is Channel
The Channel Insider has produced this exclusive research with Ziff Davis Enterprise Research to help VARs find out exactly what will be hot, and what will not, in 2008. Will verticals still be crucial, and if so, which ones? What technologies do solution providers believe will make it to the top of the list for…
