Recent Articles
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Financing Programs Give Resellers an SMB Edge
The conventional thinking among many IT vendors is that small and midsized businesses offer room to grow. That’s why companies in sectors from software to storage are retooling their SMB programs and turning to the channel. Sales and marketing programs geared toward smaller businesses—and their reseller partners—can help move products. But there’s nothing like money…
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Microsoft Points Out ‘High-Priority’ Patches
Microsoft on Tuesday released 12 advisories to cover 17 security flaws in a range of products, including high-priority patches for Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, Windows Messenger and MSN Messenger. The February batch of patches includes eight “critical” fixes, and Microsoft officials say IT administrators should prioritize and deploy patches for four potentially dangerous code-execution…
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Kaspersky Lab’s Anti-Virus Engine Comes to U.S.
Respected Russian anti-virus vendor Kaspersky Lab announced Friday that it is opening a U.S. operation. Kaspersky has significance to the industry that goes beyond just being another security vendor. The Russian company has gained respect in Europe for the quality of its software, the high level of its support and its ability to respond to…
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Hosted Services Gain Ground
Despite years of trying to get off the ground with enterprise users, the hosted software business may be getting some traction—particularly among small and midsize businesses. IBM’s acquisition of Corio Inc. earlier this month for $182 million is expected to boost the Armonk, N.Y., company’s hosted application services business in the SMB space, where Corio…
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Servers Get Relief from Heat
Enterprises feeling the financial heat in densely packed data centers are turning to chip makers, OEMs and software vendors for help in managing power and cooling issues. Solutions are coming on a number of fronts. This month, chip makers Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. will detail plans for cooler-running systems that feature improved…
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Tool Troubleshoots VOIP
Apparent Networks Inc. this week at VoiceCon in Orlando, Fla., will roll out a voice-over-IP version of its network troubleshooting tool that allows users to assess their networks’ ability to handle voice traffic and lets them quickly address VOIP problems. Because of its sensitivity to jitter, latency and packet loss, VOIP is not simply another…
