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Google Turns to Channel to Develop Enterprise Solutions
Google this week entered the channel with the launch of a partner program to advance Google’s search applications behind the corporate firewall. Using Google Inc.’s search appliances – Google Mini and Google Search Appliance —12 initial VARs, ISVs and integrators have developed unique solutions designed to deliver Google’s ability to index and retrieve unstructured information…
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NFR Expands Channel by Cutting VARs
More is less at NFR Security. To expand its channel program, the maker of intrusion security and prevention appliances actually cut its partner roster in half. “Everyone thinks more is better,” said Tim Koubek, NFR Security Inc.’s executive vice president of worldwide sales and marketing. “Becoming a partner is as easy as picking up an…
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Get an Edge With Compliance Certification
“We are being audited.” This phrase is enough to make your heart race and your blood run cold, be it as a result of a friend telling you about his IRS woes or a client discussing Sarbanes-Oxley, FDIC, Gramm-Leach-Bliley or the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. No matter how you look at it, businesses…
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Microsoft Sting Nabs Alleged Software Pirates
Microsoft Corp., in a nationwide sting operation, nabbed eight resellers it said were pedaling pirated software, the company announced this week. Microsoft filed eight lawsuits against companies in Arizona, California, Illinois, Minnesota and New York alleging copyright infringement and trademark violations for selling pirated Microsoft software, including Windows XP, Windows NT Server Version 4.0, Office…
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Microsoft Shuffle Makes Room for Developers
Microsoft’s reorganization into three major business units will have only a slight impact on its developer-focused division, company officials and analysts say. The change which will have primary impact will be that Eric Rudder, Microsoft Corp.’s senior vice president of Server and Tools, will be taking on a new role. Rudder will be working directly…
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Corente Launches Partner Recruiting Effort
The race between providers of managed services technology for mind share intensified on Wednesday as Corente Inc. launched an initiative to recruit channel partners. Corente, of New York, is launching the Authorized Partner Program in effort to enlist VARs, integrators and service providers to deliver managed services to customers through Corente’ Applications Without Boundaries (AWB)…
