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CSG Adds Five to Its Network of Service Providers
Coast Solutions Group, a coalition of VARs banding together to provide IT services, added five new solution providers this week to its menmber roster. The additions expand CSG’s reach in terms of geography and solutions, the company said. CSG pairs a network of solution providers, who resell their services to each other and 110 CSG…
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SonicWall Fills Out with MailFrontier Purchase
Security vendor SonicWall said Feb. 8 it has acquired e-mail security firm, MailFrontier, in a $31 million deal that fattens SonicWall’s growing solution portfolio. The purchase adds MailFrontier’s e-mail management and security hardware and software to SonicWall’s portfolio of security solutions for SMBs (small and midsized businesses). “It brings us more of an end-to-end, integrated…
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IBM Rolls Out Blade Roadmap
NEW YORK—IBM is planning an aggressive expansion of its blade server offerings that will include additions to its line of Intel-based systems, an upgraded Power blade and a new server running on the new Cell chip. IBM officials outlined the product roadmap at an event here on Feb. 8 for about 250 reporters, analysts and…
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Managed Services: Now It Works for Macs Too
Over the past year, Manhattan-based VAR Xperteks has moved 70 percent of its customers to a managed services model. It was no easy feat, considering 90 percent of those customers are on the Macintosh platform and Apple-compatible managed services tools were unavailable a year ago, said Xperteks President Marcial Velez. Velez knew that if his…
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Mirapoint Returns to Service Providers
E-mail management and security vendor, Mirapoint, kicked off a formal channel program on Feb. 7 to support the company’s growing community of MSPs (managed service providers) deploying the company’s e-mail solutions. Mirapoint MSPs can benefit from specialized bundles, technical and sales training, sales and marketing support, and professional services installation and migration training, tools and…
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Phoenix Goes All-Channel for Government, Enterprise
Alongside the release of a new product, endpoint security vendor Phoenix Technologies announced on Feb. 6 its plans to take an all-channel route to the enterprise and government markets. Phoenix will be relying on VARs to reach these markets, where its solutions complement and support a variety of solutions and applications, Phoenix officials said. Alongside…
