Recent Articles
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Analysts: 2006 a Game Changing Year for IT Distributors
Prices and market conditions changed little in 2006 for the major enterprise IT distributors, but significant acquisitions, a trend to convergence and a dipping Dell set up 2007 to be a positive year for the industry, said analysts at Raymond James and Associates. IT spending through distributors grew about 7 percent in North America, 4…
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CA Releases Backup and Recovery Bundle
CA the week of Dec. 4 is introducing a technology bundle that aims to make backup and recovery an easy sell for channel partners. The bundle integrates continuous application-availability technology from XOsoft, which CA acquired in July, with the vendor’s own products. According to CA, it enables a full range of recovery management best practices,…
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CIOs to Vendors: Get with the Program
Value scores: down. reliability scores: down. Customer loyalty: no surprise—these numbers are down, too. Increasingly, CIOs are disappointed and disgruntled with the performance of their most important vendors. In fact, the number of companies with lower scores in 2006 than in 2005 outpaces those with higher scores by a margin of two to one. How…
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Newbury Teams with Channel to Complete Asset Tracking Solution
Also in November, Newbury agreed to allow Trapeze Networks to license its server-side location technology and work with them to integrate Newbury’s location systems into Trapeze’s wireless networking solutions. Now, PanGo’s PanOS Location Management Platform and PanGo Locator application will be able to be powered by Newbury’s Location Appliance, enabling users to locate any 802.11-based…
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Websense Teams with Citrix on Web Security
Web security and filtering software vendor Websense is integrating its technology with Citrix System’s Presentation Server to give customers more granular access controls and Web site monitoring. The integration of Websense Enterprise and Websense Web Security Suite version 6.3 with Citrix Presentation Server is available to channel partners immediately. Websense has a strategy to move…
