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  • VARs to CEO John Chambers: We Want UCS and ‘Unified Cisco’

    Cisco’s annual Partner Summit winds down in Boston today but there’s one more event attendees have to look forward to this afternoon: Cisco’s longtime CEO John Chambers’ keynote. Channel Insider asked select Cisco solution providers to share their thoughts on what they’d like to hear from the big man himself about how Cisco will move…

  • Social Engineering Fueled by Social Networks is a Potent Threat

    Infamous hacker Kevin Mitnick earned his reputation—and jail time—not for his technical prowess, but rather his ability to find soft targets in his target organizations and silver tongue in plying them for information that allowed him to access systems. The technique is known as “social engineering.” Nothing new to report here, and it’s a bit…

  • FrontRange Updates Partner Program, Introduces Deal Registration

    FrontRange Solutions, which makes IT service management and infrastructure management software, has simplified its partner program and introduced deal registration. "By enabling our partners with a transparent process for deal identification and management, we can focus as a company on ensuring the optimum solution is being provided to the customer," said Jim O’Gara, vice president…

  • Color MFP Continues to Do Well Despite Down Economy

    The brightest spot in the overall worldwide hardcopy peripherals (HCP) market during the first quarter of 2009 (1Q09) was color laser multifunction peripherals (MFPs). It registered a strong showing of 6% year-over-year growth in a challenging economic environment. According to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Hardcopy Peripherals Tracker, the overall MFP market has fared much better than…

  • Cisco CEO: Video to Drive Market Expansion, Acquisitions Likely

    Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) CEO John Chambers hinted that his company may be on the hunt for more acquisitions, saying that Cisco already has entered 30 adjacent markets to its core networking infrastructure market, and plans to be in 50 adjacent markets within 18 months. “The next generation of communications is about video,” Chambers said. “It’s about…

  • Security Vendor SonicWall to Target MSP Integration, Licensing

    Security appliance infrastructure vendor SonicWall is strengthening its play in the managed services space by offering solution providers a host of educational and marketing materials to help them get into the managed services business. But that’s just the beginning Later this year, the company plans to introduce more flexible licensing options to better match the managed…

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