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A Failure to Communicate
As we head into the second half of 2006 it seems an appropriate time to reassess how solution providers are feeling about their business, especially given that the second quarter offered a pretty tough selling environment. A survey of over 1,000 solution providers conducted by CompTIA, an association for solution providers that is hosting its…
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Did Microsoft Patch Miss the Mark?
An anonymous security researcher has posted a proof-of-concept exploit for a flaw patched in Microsoft’s “critical” MS06-035 bulletin, but the company’s security response team says the issue is actually a brand-new, unpatched vulnerability. The researcher, who uses the online moniker “cocoruder,” published the attack code on the Milw0rm Web site alongside a claim that it…
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Microsoft Tools Team Readies ‘Rosario’
Microsoft is charting its future product course beyond Orcas in 2007. Microsoft’s next major release of its Visual Studio application development tool set is known by the code name Orcas, but Microsoft also is hard at work on a version of the tool set that will revise Visual Studio Team System, or VSTS, the company’s…
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Cisco Jumps on Compliance Bandwagon
Cisco Systems on July 31 let the next shoe drop in its bid to raise its stature as a management software provider to its networking customers when it launched its Proactive Automation of Change Execution suite. The suite, made up of both products and services, is aimed at helping the network operations team implement a…
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Do-It-Yourself Managed Services From Kaseya
Kaseya is taking the Home Depot approach to managed services for businesses that prefer to keep systems monitoring and management in-house. The San Francisco-based managed services platform vendor this week launches a do-it-yourself program to fulfill a need with customers that prefer not to rely on an IT services company for monitoring services. Kaseya’s channel…
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Sage Extends 100/100 Another Year
Sage Software has extended for another year its 100/100 program in an effort to add 100 new salespeople to its channel. The program, providing $11,000 to 100 selected partners to find, hire, train and support a new member of its sales force, kicks off its third year Sept. 1, Taylor Macdonald, Sage’s executive vice president…
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