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Astaro Woos MSPs
Security vendor Astaro is launching a partner program for managed services providers with the intent of taking on established brands Sonic Wall and Check Point Software Technologies. Astaro, based in Burlington, Mass., sells unified threat management software, which combines functions such as spyware protection, intrusion detection, virus protection for the Web and content filtering in…
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Gen X May Struggle to Fill Baby Boomers’ Shoes
Generation X managers may struggle to fill Baby Boomers’ shoes as they retire over the next 10 years and company leadership transitions to the younger group, according to new research. PDI (Personnel Decisions Internal), a Minneapolis-based global human resources consulting firm, on Jan. 30 released a report saying that 22.5 million Baby Boomers are on…
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Seven Places to Clean the Clutter in IT
Can an IT department cut its annual spending by 30 percent and still remain effective? Hewlett-Packard is on track to do that under a five-year business transformation plan that calls for cutting IT costs from $3.04 billion in 2003 to $2.11 billion in 2008. HP offers a case study for tech managers on how to…
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Report: National Health Information Network Needs More Coordination
A report by a leading health IT group concludes that the federal government should have more oversight over health IT. It comes just as four consortia unveiled prototype versions of a National Health Information Network. The report was written under a federal contract by the American Health Information Management Association. The four consortia are also…
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Gartner Offers Vista Upgrade Advice
Calling Vista’s November 2006 business launch more of a “message to organizations that they could start official testing” than the beginning of a time in which the operating system would appear on millions of enterprise machines, a report released Jan. 30 by Gartner offers IT professionals advice on planning and deploying Vista. Now that the…
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Donna Troy to Leave SAP’s Global Channel
SAP’s Donna Troy will resign her post as head of the software maker’s global channel program, company sources revealed Jan. 29. Troy, executive vice president of global SME (small and midsize enterprise) indirect channels, will leave the company soon, following a restructuring of SAP’s channel and sales groups that brought her team and position under…
