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Webroot and Email Systems to Merge
Webroot Software and Email Systems have merged to form a security software-as-a-service provider, capable of delivering e-mail archiving, encryption, anti-spam and anti-phishing services in an on-demand model. Webroot, traditionally an on-premises security software provider, and Email Systems, a SAAS security provider, will continue to run in their respective markets, although Webroot will eventually take on…
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Keeping It Elsewhere
The Web 2.0 world has brought many innovations to the market, while eliminating physical barriers between businesses and the Internet, especially when it comes to hosted services. Many businesses are fueling the growth of those Web-based services by adopting technologies such as software as a service, hosted office suites, Web applications and Asynchronous JavaScript and…
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Who Knows What When
Business is all about communications, and as businesses add advanced communications technologies, information that is shared grows exponentially. Today, many knowledge workers are awash in voice mail, text messages, e-mails, bulletin—board posts and so on. While managing all that information has become a real chore for many, the bigger problem is that more and more…
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Proginet Looks to Grow Indirect Sales
Proginet is looking to have the majority of its U.S. sales through the channel within the next three years. The enterprise security software vendor has traditionally used the channel internationally but had only a direct sales force in the United States. “We realized that to continue our growth we had to improve our go-to-market strategy…
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HP Is Midmarket CIO Favorite
Hewlett-Packard has trumped rivals to become a midmarket CIO favorite, beating Dell, IBM, Microsoft and Sun. According to a study from Ziff Davis Enterprise Research, HP scored the highest in its latest Vendor Value survey, among midmarket CIOs. The survey questions CIOs on how well their vendors deliver business value, reliability and quality. The study…
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Preventing the Exile of VAR Services
I honestly never thought I would see the day. Technology has played a part in most governments now for years and, as such, is nothing new. But technology almost toppling a government, well, now that is something we haven’t seen before. And yet this isn’t going on in a Far Eastern or an Eastern European…
