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McAfee Enhances Network Security Platform
Security specialist McAfee announced enhancements to its Network Security Platform, including enhanced botnet control through reputation intelligence, virtual network inspection and a traffic analysis port for network monitoring, forensics and other advanced analysis engines. In addition, real-time, reputation-based intelligence through McAfee Global Threat Intelligence provides Network Security Platform users with additional context for enforcing network…
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Small Business, Big Resources: The Power of Community
If you were dropped on an island with 10 other people, which would you consider the best option? Go-it-alone to get shelter and food; or Work with the 10 others for the potential benefit of everyone. Most would consider Option 2 the favorable route. But many in the IT industry continue to follow the less…
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Selling Your Business: Preparing a Post-Acquisition Landing Strategy
When IT solution provider mergers and acquisitions go down, most business owners undergoing a buyout have thought through the valuation details, they’ve planned for how their customers will continue to be satisfied under a new regime and they’ve made sure their employees will be taken care of. But often they forget to plan for one…
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Selling Your Business: Finding the Right Fit
With so many experienced IT solution provider leaders fast approaching retirement age and the competitive landscape of the technical services market evolving, it stands to follow that over the next decade many entrepreneurs in this field will be seeking to cash out on their investments or grow their businesses through mergers and acquisitions. But before…
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Ingram Micro: Half of VTN Members Selling Cloud
If you haven’t already noticed, the big word in the tech industry this year is "cloud." That was certainly in evidence this week at both the Synnex Varnex community event in Boston and at Ingram Micro’s VTN invitational community event in Chicago. These two distributors laid out cloud plans with an eye to becoming an…