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  • Red Hat Hires Top Channel Exec

    Everyone in the channel business knows that Red Hat has never done all that well by its system integrator, value-added reseller, and solution provider partners. Things are about to change, however, with the hiring of Mark Enzweiler as its VP North American Channel Sales. Enzweiler is extremely well regarded in channel circles. Enzweiler comes to…

  • Microsoft Preps 11 Security Patches, Some Critical

    Microsoft reported on Oct. 5 that it will release a total of 10 updates for its Windows operating system and Office productivity suite as part of its monthly security bulletin for October. Due out on Oct. 10 are six security updates meant to patch issues identified in Windows, with an additional four updates aimed at…

  • Bell Micro Partners with SilverBack for Managed Services

    The marriage of managed services and distribution is solidifying, as SilverBack Technologies completes a partnership agreement with distributor Bell Microproducts. SilverBack, based in Billerica, Mass., is extending its managed services platform to VARs selling to midsize companies through the distributor. Bell Microproducts will use the SilverBack technology to anchor a program that taps the distributor’s…

  • Securing E-Mail the Appliance Way

    Duration: 6:51 Click here to download this podcast. Check out eWEEK.com’s for the latest podcasts by eWEEK analysts, editors and reporters.

  • Security, Hypocrisy and the Kernel Patching Spat

    It’s not easy being Microsoft. Not that you should feel sorry for the company, at least not usually. But it is often put in impossible positions, as McAfee and Symantec are doing now. The two companies are arguing, mostly in European papers in order to influence antitrust policy in the European Union, that security design…

  • Startup Offers Gift Card Exchange

    A new Web gift card exchange could shake up the gift card space, with cards selling to consumers for less than face value and retailers getting the gift that keeps on giving: previously unavailable data on who is using these cards. Trying to address the hundreds of millions of dollars lost each year in gift…

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