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Speaking Out The Channels Take on Latest Vendor Program Trends
Speaking Out The Channels Take on Latest Vendor Program Trends No Title Can I Be Direct With You?In 2009, the channel was already growing wary that major technology vendors were funneling more of their business through their direct sales forces. 38 percent of those surveyed cited this back-to-the-future move to direct sales as the…
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Dell’s Quarter Revenue Expected Close to Estimates
Personal computer and server maker Dell’s (NASDAQ:DELL) revenue and earnings for the fourth quarter are expected to be about $13.82 billion according to consensus analyst estimates and about earnings to be about 27 cents per share when the company announces its quarterly financials on Feb. 18. Analyst firm Bernstein Research said it expects revenues and…
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Brocade, McAfee Team to Target Network Security
In an announcement that was originally going to include IBM’s participation, Brocade and McAfee have announced a strategic partnership to address the changes transforming the network security market. "We’re really starting to see the security market change," says Amy Medeiros with Brocade’s Strategic Alliances group. "The industry is changing really quickly and there are a…
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HP Rebrands, Refreshes LeftHand Storage Lines
HP rebranded its storage offerings and added new products to the mix today, but there’s a lot more behind the move than simply cleaning up the storage line card. In addition to the new nomenclature, the extensions to its Modular Smart Array (MSA) and LeftHand lines mean more opportunity to the channel. "From a channel…
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Microsoft Updates Mobile Phone Software
(Reuters) – Microsoft launched its new mobile phone operating software on Monday, introducing a range of music, gaming and networking features aimed at expanding its appeal beyond its core business customers. The world’s biggest software company, which is trying to wrest back market share from Apple’s iPhone and Research in Motion’s BlackBerry, said new phones…
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SonicWall Adds SSL Deep Packet Inspection to Firewall Lines
The latest platform iteration for the SonicWall TZ, NSA, and E-Class NSA firewalls, SonicOS 5.6 adds a new deep packet inspection (DPI) engine for SSL encrypted traffic, which has increasingly become a blind spot in many firewall, content filtering and data leak protection schemes today. Bad guys have begun using encryption technologies against the very…
