Recent Articles
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Stimulus Package Offers Opportunity for Small Resellers, Too
Looking to help small solution providers tap into some of the funds expected to come from the Obama administration’s economic stimulus package, also known as the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, D&H Distributing has created a new “Webisode” in its series of educational offerings available on the Web to help walk VARs through the process…
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Virtualization, Backup Demand Drives New EMC/Ingram Micro Solution Demo Center
While so much of technology spending has suffered from the ravages of the recession over the last nine months, a few areas have enjoyed relative immunity, and storage and virtualization technologies are often mentioned as two of those areas. Now Ingram Micro, recognizing the strength of and demand for those technologies, is offering a way…
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Rogue DBAs: Implementing Controls on Privileged Users
There are many reasons why enterprises are failing to hold database administrators (DBAs) accountable through monitoring and policy enforcement, but one of the big factors is historical inertia. “In every environment you have DBAs and sys admins and application developers and all those types of folks, who by nature of their privileged access have access…
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Ingram Micro Pays $15M Fine for Channel Stuffing Scheme
IT distributor Ingram Micro paid a hefty price for helping Network Associates (now McAfee) in an elaborate channel stuffing scheme over a period of two years that inflated Ingram Micro’s profit margins and McAfee’s revenues by hundreds of millions of dollars during the height of the dot-com boom. Ingram Micro has paid a $15 million…
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Rogue DBAs: Hidden Inside Security Threat
If your enterprise customers seem unaware of the dangers to their databases posed by rogue employees, it might be time to tell them the story of Timothy Curley. Employed by American Express as a database administrator; Curley was arrested on June 24 by the U.S. Secret Service on claims from his former employer that he…