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Businesses Face Rising Challenges to Keep Data Secure: Report
A report from Check Point Software and the Ponemon Institute, a privacy and information management research firm, revealed that 77 percent of organizations surveyed have experienced data loss in the last year. Key findings from the report, Understanding Security Complexity in 21st Century IT Environments, showed respondents cited customer information (52 percent) as the most…
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HP TouchPad Headed for Retail, Channel July 1
"What makes HP TouchPad a compelling alternative to competing products is webOS," said Jon Rubinstein, senior vice president and general manager, Palm Global Business Unit, HP, in a statement. "The platform’s unmatched features and flexibility will continue to differentiate HP products from the rest of the market for both personal and professional use. This is…
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VARs Cashing in on Managed Print Services
From high-ticket, high-output networked printers to low-cost personal multi-function devices tucked in private offices, organizations spend a small fortune each year managing, maintaining, and operating their armies of printers and copiers—and savvy solution providers are helping clients take control of the associated costs, management issues, and upkeep through margin-rich, customer-centric managed print services offerings. Indeed,…
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Most Small Businesses Hope to Hire in 2011
Despite the latest jobs report that shows employers added fewer jobs in May than expected, a majority of small businesses (57 percent) say they plan to hire this year, according to a survey from Manta, an online community for promoting and connecting small business. Manta’s SMB Nation Survey queried 1,016 small business owners–the majority of…
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Cloud, Virtualized Environments Targeted by Cyber-Attackers
NEW YORK — Cyber-criminals are simultaneously taking advantage of the cloud’s benefits to launch attacks as well as targeting organizations’ cloud services, security experts said. As organizations increasingly virtualize their data centers and move their applications to the cloud, attackers are beginning to think, "Let’s attack here," Allen Vance, director of product management of the…
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NetEnrich Launches Cloud Practice for Solution Providers
IT infrastructure management services provider NetEnrich announced the launch of Cloud Practice, designed to support IT solution providers that have or want to build a full portfolio of cloud computing solutions aimed at small to medium-size businesses. The Cloud Practice uses NetEnrich’s Service Delivery framework to remotely manage IT application stacks and databases within private,…