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Green Grid Plans First Technical Summit
The Green Grid, a nonprofit consortium based in Portland, Ore. and dedicated to cutting the use of IT’s single most precious resource—electricity—announced on April 10 plans for a technical summit to be held April 18-19 in Denver. The summit, the first event the organization will host since its formal launch on Feb. 26, is expected…
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Sophos Goes 100 Percent Channel
Security and control vendor Sophos is converting to a 100 percent channel sales strategy for North America, the company announced April 9. The new Sophos Partner Program offers three levels – Platinum, Gold and Silver with tiered benefits – plus lead distribution to qualified partners, online deal registration and dedicated pre-sale and post-sale support. Sophos…
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Silverback Embraces the Desktop
Managed services platform provider Silverback Technologies is extending its service beyond servers and network perimeter devices, this time to encompass desktop computers too. It’s a service that MSP customers have been demanding from their providers, and one that Silverback has dabbled in as a result. But now the company, based in Billerica, Mass., has bundled…
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Indian Techies Are Well-Paid but Restless
Despite 70 percent of Indian IT professionals having been promoted in the last 12 months and 42 percent in the last six months, nearly half have been with their employers for less than a year, found a survey released on April 6. Job-hopping is de rigueur, according to the survey, released by CyberMedia Dice, a…
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Citrix to Corporate IT: Application Delivery Is Strategic
Citrix Systems has made a bid to become a top-tier applications infrastructure provider by calling on enterprises to recognize the strategic value of the technologies that speed response times for Web-based or Windows desktop applications. To bolster its message, Citrix on April 9 rallied a handful of applications providers and systems integrators to help educate…
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Senate Bill Gives U.S. Workers First Dibs on Tech Jobs
One of the longest-running defenses of the hotly debated H-1B temporary worker visa program is that there are simply not enough U.S. workers to fill out many corporations’ programming, engineering and back-office positions, leaving them no choice but to hire workers from overseas. A new Senate bill—introduced in the final moments before Congress departed for…
