Recent Articles
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SMB Surveys Reveal Mixed Results
A trio of new surveys indicates that SMBs will: (a) be reducing their budgets 4 percent this year (Forrester Research); (b) make significant investments in new hardware and software over the next six months (Spiceworks); and (c) believe the economy will improve moderately by the end of the year (PartnerUp). So basically, pick your survey…
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CA Buys NetQoS for $200 Million
CA continues its push to support enterprise cloud efforts by picking up the network performance management firm NetQoS for $200 million. The buy puts CA in charge of a fully-developed suite of network flow monitoring, unified communications management and response time analytic network solutions that should conceivably fill in some gaps within its service delivery…
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New Model for Selling Holistic Smartphone Security
Security channel providers who help customers approach smartphone protection in a holistic fashion could grab hold of a significant market niche if they approach it the right way, says an industry analyst at Compliance Research Group, which today released a new model for implementing mobile security in the enterprise. Meant to aid channel partners, vendors…
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Test Driving Cloud Computing
While there’s plenty of excitement about the prospects of cloud computing, there remains just as much skepticism in the marketplace, especially within enterprises skittish about putting highly distributed mission-critical applications outside of their own domain. Duncan Johnston-Watt, founder and CEO of U.K.-based cloud software company Cloudsoft, understands that trepidation and wants to do something about…
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Webroot Taps Former Postini Channel Exec
Webroot is hoping to strengthen its ties with the channel and to prove it is serious the company announced this week that it has brought on a new channel chief with deep ties to global security partners. A veteran channel mover with over 25 years experience, Jerry Jalaba comes to Webroot by way of Postini…
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Oracle Ends Computer Tie-Up with HP
(Reuters) – Oracle Corp has ended a high-profile computer-building partnership with Hewlett-Packard Co as Oracle prepares to acquire Sun Microsystems Inc, a rival of HP. Sun, the world’s No. 4 server maker, and Oracle have jointly developed a second-generation version of a specialized database computer, dubbed Exadata. Oracle and HP launched the first version a…