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Gateway Sets Sights on Small Business
Computer maker Gateway Inc. wants to expand its commercial business by focusing on smaller businesses. Gateway, of Irvine, Calif., kicked off the initiative Thursday with the release of a low-end server and a new line of desktop and notebook PCs armed with features that officials say are needed by small businesses with little or no…
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VARS Play Vital Role in Preparing for the Next Katrina
It is unfortunate that a tragic event such as Hurricane Katrina is sometimes what it takes for organizations, large and small, to take a serious look at their disaster planning and recovery strategy. While a catastrophe of this proportion will deeply change and impact thousands of lives forever, it will also destroy companies and put…
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McAfee Launches Managed Security for E-mail
McAfee this week launched a subscription-based e-mail protection service that gives channel partners an opportunity for recurring revenue. The McAfee Secure Messaging Service, based on Postini Inc.’s Perimeter Manager spam-filtering technology, offers protection against spam, phishing, viruses, inappropriate content, denial-of-service attacks and directory-harvest attacks. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based vendor is offering two iterations of the…
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ACS Nabs Third Glaxo Deal
Affiliated Computer Services Inc. on Monday disclosed a $100.5 million outsourcing contract with pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline. The five-year deal will focus on information technology outsourcing as opposed to the business process outsourcing projects for which ACS is perhaps better known. ACS will manage more than 5,000 Unix, Windows/Intel, OS390 mainframe and Open VMS servers housed…
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VARs Get Marketing Boost from Big Brother
What good is it when you are the only one who knows that your solution is the best out there? Or, as for Allfinanz of F.M. Systems Ltd., a Dublin, Ireland-based ISV serving the insurance industry, the question can be, what good is it if we’re the only ones who know we exist? After several…
