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VARs Untouched By CompUSA Discounts
CompUSA stores that are closing down are offering deep discounts on Microsoft Windows Vista operating systems and other technology, but so far VARs have yet to see the impact on their businesses. A quick survey of VARs on Long Island revealed that none have felt any impact whatsoever from the store closings or competition from…
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LANDesk VARs Get Integrated Host Intrusion Protection
Patch management security vendor LANDesk has added integrated host intrusion protection to its portfolio of offerings. The new technology will help VARs offer their customers endpoint protection from zero-day threats, according to Devin Anderson, business line manager at the subsidiary of Avocent, in Huntsville, Ala. Let Your Voice be Heard! Vote on the Most Significant…
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Report Describes ‘Culture of Fear’ at CA
The Special Litigation Report released on Feb. 13 was scathing in its description of the way CA was run under Charles Wang’s guidance. In the report, the SLC described a “culture of fear” cultivated among employees, a startling lack of internal finance and audit controls given the size of the company and a “profound failure…
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Text Messaging Booms at U.S. Colleges
Colleges and universities across the United States are moving quickly to adopt text messaging as their first line of emergency notification, experts said. The rush to find ways to send tens of thousands of SMS messages to student cell phones was only intensified this week by the tragic events at Virginia Tech, in Blacksburg, Va.…
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SMB: It’s Good to Be the Little Guy
A Google News search the other day on “SMB” produced 1,807 returns. It’s not exactly “American Idol” numbers, but that’s a lot of news on small and midsize businesses. What’s going on? Vendors in the past couple of years have made strong strategic plays for that market space, and lately the trend seems to have…
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VARs See UC as Unconquered Territory
The small business market for unified communications telephone systems is buzzing, at least if you take the cue from major vendors such as Cisco, 3Com and Nortel. All three companies announced new systems or enhancements to existing systems for SMBs (small and midsize businesses) in the last month, giving VARs an entry into a space…
