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Webroot Is Banking on Its Channel
Webroot Software, the reigning king of anti-spyware, is facing challenges to its supremacy, as Microsoft, Symantec, McAfee and others begin offering competitive solutions bundled into suites and packages with a seemingly impenetrable install base. But the software company is banking on its channel partners to maintain and grow its installed base in the enterprise and…
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Analysts: Server Market Flat in First Quarter
The first quarter was a slow one for the global server market, with shipments rising modestly but revenue remaining relatively flat, according to two analyst companies. Both IDC and Gartner pointed to the push by companies to align their IT infrastructure with their business demands, including consolidating resources in their data centers in an effort…
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Mom and Pop Camping Shop Gets E-Commerce Boost
Nature enthusiasts no longer have to make a major hike to take advantage of the vast array of camping, fishing, rock-climbing and canoeing supplies housed within the walls of outdoor specialty equipment retailer Campmor. Since discovering—and then tapping—the possibilities of a well-designed e-commerce site, the Paramus, N.J., retailer has expanded its possible market to the…
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Channel Chiefs Need to Watch More Football
Watching various vendors put their channel programs together has always been reminiscent of watching professional football coaches build their offenses. In the National Football League, coaches tend to prefer to either pass the ball or run the ball. Passing the ball a lot is generally referred to as a West Coast offensive scheme, because it…
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New Samsung Notebook Replaces Hard Drive with Flash
Is the hard drive history? Samsung Electronics said Tuesday that it will launch two mobile computers in early June that will do away with hard drives altogether, replacing them with 32 gigabytes of NAND flash memory. The notebooks will be the first to use flash memory as the main storage device. The Samsung Q1, described…
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Cloakware Targets Feds with a New Channel Community
Data protection maker Cloakware is targeting its server-based data protection and password solutions at state and federal agencies with a new channel program for Government VARs. Cloakware is recruiting VARs with government contacts that can add its CSPM (Cloakware Server Password Manager), which manages unattended application passwords and privileged account passwords, to their current server…
