Recent Articles
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Redmond Carves out a VP Post, Strategy, for Enterprise Partners
Microsoft added a vice president’s hat to the head of Enterprise Partners as it drives a new initiative to engage enterprise partners tactically from Redmond, instead of regionally. Peter Boit, formerly vice president of the Commercial Sectors Group, takes on the new role from Jared Wheeler, who led the group as General Manager of Enterprise…
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Cybertrust Pitches Partner Security Tools
Cybertrust launched a new program on Sept. 26 that aims to help companies improve their network and applications security by further testing the electronic systems they share with business partners. Labeled Cybertrust’s Partner Security Program, the array of software and services provided via the offering are being touted by the vendor as a comprehensive manner…
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A Managed Security Service Playbook
Every now and again somebody puts a new page in the playbook that everybody in the channel should just immediately copy. The page in question here has been penned by a company called CyberTrust, a managed services provider focused on security. While there is nothing particularly unique about being a security MSP, what is unique…
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Platform Computing to Ease Grid Deployment
Platform Computing is looking to make it easier for businesses to create a high-performance computing cluster by offering an integrated reference software stack that can be quickly deployed and easily managed. Platform is demonstrating its Open Cluster Stack, or OCS, at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. The Platform OCS, which is running on…
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Perimeter CEO: Security on Demand Is On
Persuading IT buyers to invest in security is no easy task because unlike other technologies, it doesn’t help companies cut costs or boost revenue. If anything, IT buyers tend to look at security equipment and software as expenditures and nothing more. This is why offering network protection as an on-demand service makes sense, and it…
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IBM Opens Innovations Centers to VC-Backed Startups
IBM is hoping to drive more innovation out of partners by throwing more resources at the ISVs that venture capital firms say are promising. IBM will provide venture capital firms and the ISVs they back with added technical, sales and marketing support delivered at its 32 Innovation Centers worldwide to speed solutions to market and…
