Recent Articles
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XiloCore Is ‘Spare Tire’ for SMBs
Lester Keizer and Alan McDonald were looking for the same solution: an affordable, enterprise-class storage, backup, archiving and business continuity solution for the SMB market. When their paths crossed at Ingram Micro’s spring 2006 Venture Tech Network event, they realized that a partnership between their two VARs—Keizer’s ConnectingPoint in Las Vegas, and McDonald’s AllConnected in…
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The Do’s and Don’ts of SAAS
Gartner lays out some ground rules for getting into software as a service. (Source: Gartner)
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SAAS Gaining Ground on Software
Gartner stats show that the growth rate of software as a service is overtaking that of software in a number of technology categories.
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Processor Shipments Reflect Robust PC Market
These are good times for the PC market. These are good times to buy a PC. Two recent reports from IDC on microprocessor and PC sales indicate demand for PCs is booming—microprocessor sales shot to $8 billion in the third quarter of 2007, up 14.8 percent, and PC shipments jumped to 68.5 million units shipped…
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Trend Micro to Snap Up Provilla for DLP
Trend Micro announced plans Thursday to purchase Provilla, becoming the latest security firm to add data loss prevention tools via acquisition. The Japan-based Trend Micro will operate Provilla, based in Mountain View, Calif., as a subsidiary of Trend Micro’s U.S. affiliate. Provilla’s products specialize in intelligent content filtering and policy enforcement, capabilities Trend Micro officials…
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In the Face of Disaster, There Are No Competitors
Alan McDonald was just happy to see the sky on Thursday. The president of Allconnected, a solution provider in Simi Valley, Calif., had been driving around to attend to business when he realized that for the first time in days the haze from the devastating Southern California wildfires had given way to some blue. It…
