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Insider Security Events Mostly Unintentional
Even though malicious insider threats receive the most hype, most organizations experience more accidental insider threat incidents than intentional, according to a new threat report released by IDC in conjunction with RSA yesterday. The report can act a good lesson to channel providers on the opportunities presented by customers facing risks from within their organizations,…
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Yahoo to Compete with Bing Despite Microsoft Deal
(Reuters) – Yahoo Inc said on Monday it has revamped its search to compete against Microsoft Corp’s Bing, even as it relies on the Redmond giant to power its queries. The announcement of plans to put a new face on Yahoo Messenger and Mail and add functions to its search engine came after news that…
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NetApp Unveils Data ONTAP 8, Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure
NetApp has unveiled Data ONTAP 8, the latest version of its platform now specifically designed for a model of IT delivered as a service (ITaaS) that will serve as the cloud infrastructure. "This is the next step in the evolution of a trend in virtualization," said Patrick Rogers, VP Solutions Marketing at NetApp. "It began…
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Star Wars Big Time Vendor Rivalries
Star Wars Big Time Vendor Rivalries This one’s been kicking up for some time now, beginning years’ back when several prominent Microsoft executives defected to Google when it was still a young upstart. The battle royale takes place on several fronts, most publicly in the search market where Google owns 65 percent market share. Microsoft’s…
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Vendor Incentives: What Have You Found You Can Live Without?
Vendor-based incentives have long been an integral part of the channel business model. The recession, however, has caused many vendors to rethink how they reward and incent partners, resulting in reductions in front-end discounts and rebates to more stringent requirements for the use of such resources as marketing development funds. These actions are a cost-cutting…
