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TraceSecurity Launches Channel Partner Program
By Gina Roos TraceSecurity has launched a channel partner program designed to help VARs, managed security service providers (MSSPs) and consultants build and grow their security and IT governance, risk and compliance (GRC) services aimed at small and midsize businesses (SMBs). At the center of the TraceSecurity Partner Program is the company’s TraceCSO risk-based cloud…
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Arrow to Sell Genband Cloud Services
By Gina Roos Genband, a developer of multimedia and cloud communications solutions, has signed Arrow Electronics as a reseller of its Nuvia cloud services and suite of on-premise enterprise solutions. Nuvia will be sold through the distributor’s Arrow S3 business as its flagship cloud offering under the SynapS3 ucCLOUD brand. Arrow S3—which provides unified communications,…
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Microsoft Partner Looks to Add Value to Office 365
Necessity is often the mother of channel invention. With Microsoft rapidly moving tens of thousands of electronic mailboxes to the cloud via its Office 365 cloud computing service, channel partners have to find new ways to add value. A good example of such an approach comes from Champion Solutions Group (CSG), a longtime Microsoft channel…
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CompTIA Adds Channel Training On-the-Go
By Gina Roos Starting April 1, CompTIA, a nonprofit association for the IT industry, will offer e-learning courses as part of its education and training programs for the IT channel. The initial e-learning executive certificate programs will focus on cloud-based IT services, mobile strategies and IT security. All e-learning courses include scenario-based learning opportunities, case…
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Ingram Micro Mobility to Distribute Globo Products
By Gina Roos Globo plc has signed a distribution agreement with Ingram Micro. The deal allows the IT services and logistics solutions provider to distribute Globo’s mobility solutions for the enterprise and the small- and midsize-business (SMB) market to authorized resellers in the United States and Canada. Ingram Micro Mobility, a new business unit of…
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Facebook’s Instagram-Inspired Redesign Gives Advertisers More to Like
Facebook, how it works and how people feel about it may all be increasingly complex, but on March 7 the social network announced that its look will soon be much simpler. It announced a redesign to “reduce clutter and focus more on stories from the people you care about.” The News Feed also will be…
