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Tufin Technologies Revamps Partner Program
Tufin Technologies beefed up its channel partner program this week with a three-pronged upgrade that it hopes will jumpstart indirect sales and benefit resellers and integrators that focus strongly on security. Based in Israel, Tufin has grown from a small upstart firewall management company to a strong niche player in security lifecycle management. With a…
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CA Spiffs Up Security Perks for the Channel
To bolster support of the channel and increase the value of its security products, CA announced Sept. 3 a couple of big perks for its security channel partners and end users. Starting yesterday, CA’s Internet Security Business Unit will give away remote installation of all its security products bought through the channel. In addition, the…
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Cloud Storage Comes of Age
Managed hosting service provider giant Carpathia Hosting was looking to get into the storage cloud space with an object-based offering that would allow the company to offer a fully managed cloud to its customers, which include many large enterprises. That’s because while cloud computing has been on the leading edge of technology up until now,…
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VARs Continue to Struggle in Peripherals Market
Like most of the rest of the technology industry, the hardcopy peripherals market has completed a brutal year, according to IDC’s latest numbers. Overall, the worldwide hardcopy peripherals market declined 21 percent year over year in 2Q09 to 24.1 million units. Shipment value declined 23.2 percent over the same time period to $11.6 billion. The…
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Intel’s ‘Lynnfield` Processor Ripe for Channel
Intel has released more affordable versions of its Nehalem microarchitecture chips. Formerly codenamed “Lynnfield,” the new offerings consist of Intel Core i5 processor family, two new Intel Core i7 processors and the Intel Xeon processor 3400 series. They are significantly cheaper than last year’s initial Nehalem chips, the Core i7 900-series, and offer strong price/performance…
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MSPs ID Lack of Network Visibility as Top Problem
Is the latest cat video that’s gone viral on YouTube clogging your customer’s network? Got more than a few employees listening to their own private radio stations on Pandora? A new survey of managed service providers reveals that more than half of them spend 13 percent of their time troubleshooting sluggish networks—sluggishness that can be…