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  • Symantec Ships New Veritas Storage Software for Windows

    Data storage and security provider Symantec on Jan. 17 began shipping Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0 High Availability for Windows, a feature-packed enterprise storage software package that delivers high-end data and application availability for Microsoft Windows environments. It combines two existing products—Storage Foundation for Windows and Veritas Cluster Server—for the first time with enhanced usability tools…

  • Microsoft, Nortel VOIP Alliance Gets Real

    Microsoft and Nortel Networks on Jan. 17 revealed more about their Unified Communications Alliance, announcing real deliverables and detailing a road map for further products due next year. The alliance, launched in the summer of 2006, has yielded over the last six months a series of integrated offerings due out this year. First of the…

  • Ascentive Launches Channel Program with Initial Margins of 50 Percent

    Just a few months after introducing an enterprise version of its BeAware workplace activity monitoring software, Ascentive has launched a channel program that offers partners up to a 50 percent margin for deals registered in the first 90 days of their participation. Any VAR can get a 20 percent discount from the list price, said…

  • If You Think It’s Hype, You’ll Miss the Boat

    Call it hype if you must, but managed services are fueling a very real IT services movement. And that movement is about to gain momentum, as users become more attuned to the benefits of engaging a solution provider to deliver the services. I can almost see the eye rolls as I embark on yet another…

  • RSS Setup Can Be Really Simple

    In today’s Web 2.0 world, learning how to hand-code an RSS file can often seem as necessary as learning how to create and edit the code behind a PDF document. That’s because businesses that want to use RSS will quickly find there are a whole host of applications happy to automatically create RSS feeds of…

  • RSS Offers Relief from Enterprise E-Mail Overload

    We can’t live with e-mail; we can’t live without it. Indispensable to most businesses today, e-mail can be a millstone around the necks of office workers and the corporate IT professionals who serve them. Bloated in-boxes conceal rather than expose critical e-mail messages, and vast archives of spam and useless messages clog servers and network…

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