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Seagate’s i365 Provides Cloud-Based Data Recovery
Seagate’s i365 storage division April 12 launched a new cloud-based backup/recovery and data security service designed for laptop and desktop PCs. It also helps control the spread of sensitive data to the outside or throughout a mobile workforce using security features that include local file encryption, remote data deletion, port access control and device tracing—if…
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SafeNet Tries to Lure Away RSA SecureID Customers
SafeNet has unveiled migration bundles to provide organizations with a full-fledged authentication platform as an alternative to what they currently have deployed. SafeNet’s trusted authentication system is flexible enough to support enterprises regardless of whether they want to deploy hardware or software tokens, smart cards or even mobile devices, the company said April 13. SafeNet…
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Synnex Adds Managed Services Suite to Offerings
Although cloud overshadowed all other IT topics at Synnex’s first Varnex community conference of the year, the company also gave solution providers and managed service providers new tools with the launch of suite of managed services through its Technology Solutions Division. The division’s OnDemand IT group is now providing a suite of managed services aimed…
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Worldwide PC Shipments Hurting
PC shipments worldwide totaled 84.3 million units in the first quarter of 2011, a 1.1 percent decline from the first quarter of 2010, according to preliminary results from IT research firm Gartner. Although the first quarter is traditionally a slow one for PC sales, these shipment results indicated potential sluggishness, not just a normal seasonal…
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Vertical Market Opportunity: Selling to Healthcare
Vertical markets represent one of the more fertile opportunities for VARs, MSPs and IT solution providers these days, according to industry experts, but just how do you decide on which vertical market to pursue and then how do you go about pursuing it? Look for a vertical market that is poised for growth, recommends Donald…