Recent Articles
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Avian Flu: Can IT Handle a Pandemic?
VeriCenter Chief Technology Officer Dave Colesante is a rare bird. Unlike many IT executives, Colesante has actually thought about a potential avian influenza virus, or bird flu, pandemic and reckons his company, which provides technology services, is relatively prepared if the virus becomes transmitted through human contact. After all, Colensante’s 225-person support staff is used…
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Does IT Need More H-1B Visas?
Few topics ignite passions as hotly as immigration. That’s because immigration touches everyone, directly or indirectly. It has always been so. Humans have always roamed, now assimilating, now displacing. More often than not, who is displacing whom causes the debate. In the current furor over immigration, the debate revolves around whether illegal workers who sneak…
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Customers Wait for Oracle Security Patches
Just call it Oracle’s May critical patch update. Three weeks after the database server vendor announced the release of its April 2006 CPU, customers are still waiting for the several important fixes. The update, which addresses 36 different product flaws, is still undergoing quality assurance testing and is not yet available for download. On April…
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Websense Takes on New Direction, Sales Chief
Security vendor Websense is stepping away from its direct sales operation in favor of a channel-focused and possibly all-channel operation. The San Diego-based Web security and Web filtering vendor is preparing to initiate a new sales strategy in the third quarter of 2006 that places the channel at the center of go-to-market plans, and the…
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SAP, Partners Offer Business One Break for Katrina Region
SAP is offering a special rate on Business One software through three Gulf Region partners to aid businesses struggling in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Businesses affected by the September 2005 hurricane in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas can receive a 33 percent discount on SAP’s Business One management software for SMEs (small and medium…
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Are Distributors Becoming Resellers?
As solution providers across the landscape continue to discover the joys of recurring revenue derived from managed services, the rise of this business model is starting to bring into question the role of distribution going forward. This is a big question right now because of two trends associated with managed services. The first trend is…
