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Bull’s Eye Awards: Master MSP of the Year
The Master Managed Services Provider of the Year Awards go to the companies that exemplify the top-notch services, support, training and expertise that other VARs seek out to run their own MSP operations successfully. Awards are given for the following: CHALLENGER recognizes a vendor or individual that isn’t in a leadership position today, but exhibits…
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Dramatic Data Center Denouement: Making Sense of 2009
Lean and Green Seems like one of the mantras of 2009 was “Do more with less,” and that’s what going green is most often all about. Whether it’s greater energy efficiency or greater attention to recycling IT assets when they’ve come to the end of their useful lives, green was a big trend for the…
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EMC Enhances Broad Storage Portfolio
In a mini-barrage of announcements, EMC has tweaked a number of its product portfolios, including Symmetrix V-Max, Captiva, Retrospect and Data Protection Advisor. According to Charles King, Principal Analyst, Pund-IT, the most important aspect of these announcements is that they illustrate the breadth of EMCs efforts across multiple markets and channels, and the company’s ability…
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FTC Sues Intel for Alleged Anticompetitive Practices
What’s already been a very troubling year for Intel just got worse. The Federal Trade Commission is suing the world’s biggest computer chip maker, charging that the company has illegally used its dominant market position for a decade to stifle competition and strengthen its monopoly. They allege that Intel “has waged a systematic campaign to…
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WatchGuard Launches Formal MSP Program
WatchGuard Technologies, a provider of firewalls and unified threat management appliances, today unveiled a formal managed services program for channel partners, providing support and incentives for solution providers that have been or want to use its equipment to deliver remote security services. Many security solution providers and managed service providers have used WatchGuard equipment to…
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Bull’s Eye Awards: MSP Enabler of the Year
The Managed Services Enabler of the Year award goes to the software vendor, hosted service provider or master managed service provider that exemplifies excellence in fostering growth and execution in enabling solution and service providers to deliver managed services and grow managed services practices. Awards are given for the following: CHALLENGER recognizes a vendor or…
