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CompTIA Targets Security, Open Source, Small Business with Member Communities
The Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) is hoping to better serve the IT industry with the rollout of seven new collaborative communities designed to gather input from a range of industry segments for a deeper dive into the concerns of IT’s most important niches. Announced last week, the communities will be a way for CompTIA’s…
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Microsoft Blog Calls Google Anti-Competitive
SEATTLE (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp made its most vehement and public attack on Google Inc on Friday, calling its Internet rival’s actions potentially anti-competitive, and urging victims to file complaints to regulators. The broadside comes days after a Microsoft-owned business, along with two other small online companies, complained to European Union regulators about Google’s operations…
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Partners Relieve Technology Headaches by Recycling Laptops, Electronics
Open the door of that IT closet these days and chances are you’ll find growing piles of equipment—laptops that had been used by those people who were laid off during the recession, PCs set aside after a refresh, servers that have been retired. And as the company takes more equipment out of service and adds…
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Storage Vendor Offers In-Line Dedupe, Microsoft Hyper-V Support, Huge Margins
Nexenta Systems’ CEO Evan Powell has 93 reasons why the channel should be excited about NexentaStor 3.0, a major upgrade to the company’s enterprise-class, hardware- independent storage solution based on the file system ZFS, and Virtual Machine Datacenter (VMDC) 3.0. Due out at the end of the month, it is called the first commercial storage…
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Upstart Google Apps Looks to Unseat Microsoft Exchange in Enterprise
Think Google Apps are just for consumers and the smallest of businesses? Think Google’s channel program couldn’t possibly offer a business model that works for an IT solution provider? Tell that to Cloud Sherpas. The Atlanta-based IT solution provider was part of Google Apps’ formal channel partner program when Google launched it a year ago…
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Kaseya Launches SaaS-Based Partner Program
Kaseya this week launched a new program for partners that resell or recommend its SaaS-based IT services solutions. The Kaseya SaaS Partner Program is targeted at select partners, including distributors and channel industry associations, that will promote Kaseya’s SaaS-based IT management offerings – initially the Kaseya IT Tool Kit — to the core constituency of…