Recent Articles
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Dell to Acquire MSP Platform Provider SilverBack
Dell plans to acquire SilverBack Technologies, one of a handful of leading managed service platform companies offering IT monitoring and management services through resellers, the company announced today. The move comes two months after the Round Rock, Texas-based PC maker, which built its business on direct sales of PCs to customers, announced that it would…
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Bixler: AMD Widens the Channel
Vizard:One of the things that dominates everybody’s mindset at the channel, for better or worse, especially around systems, is pricing. You know, almost everyday you read about the price war that goes on between AMD and Intel, but I don’t think anybody ever steps back to say, “What does this mean exactly from a market…
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Arsenal Upgrades Online Server Backup/Recovery Service
Data protection provider Arsenal Digital on July 16 introduced enhanced capabilities for its ViaRemote virtual server subscription service that include native support for virtualization packages from Sun Microsystems, Microsoft and EMC VMware. ViaRemote enables enterprises with existing virtualized storage systems to deploy additional capabilities, such as consolidated backup operations, faster restores and file- and block-level…
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Google Launches Hosted Website Search for SMBs
Google fired a direct volley at its chief adversaries in the enterprise search market, Microsoft and IBM, with the July 17 launch of its Google Custom Search Business Edition service. The Custom Search Business Edition is a hosted, fee-based site search service aimed at small and medium-size businesses—but available for any Web site—that adds Google-type…
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Cisco Revives Role Sharing
Cisco will again allow individuals within various solution provider organizations to share “roles,” allowing a single person to serve in two roles in the “sales engineer,” “field engineer” tracks or to serve in four roles in the “account manager track.” The change is a roll-back of an unpopular change for a minority of VARs made…
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Beware Fake Domain Renewal Notices
Thanks to the folks at Domain Name Wire for blogging about a serious scam designed to steal money from domain name owners. You could say it’s a new sort of phish. Domain renewal scams are not a new thing. Because whois information is public, unscrupulous registrars have, for years, harvested the information in it and…
