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10 Nifty Mobile Business Applications
10 Nifty Mobile Business Applications Following Apple’s lead, Microsoft, Nokia and Blackberry are launching their own online apps store for mobile devices. Here are Channel Insider’s choices for mobile apps that these vendors should stock for mobile users. No Title Afaria is a mobile management security application that automatically updates and locks down mobile devices.…
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Vendors ‘Store Up’ for Selling Mobile Apps
When it comes to mobility, Apple’s presence—particularly through the iPhone—cannot be denied. While it may not have invented mobile applications, Apple made them mainstream. The iPhone revolutionized personalizing the mobile device, incorporating a population of wildly fanatical Apple fans to build downloadable applications that are useful, whimsical, valuable and, in more than a few cases,…
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Finding a Storage Niche in the Tough Government Market
While there’s no such thing as a recession-proof market, solution provider ATS is finding that the federal government’s growing need for data protection, storage and deduplication technologies make for some incredibly lucrative opportunities. Scott Sanner, ATS’s director of partner alliances, says his firm’s success is the result of being able to deliver “the right types…
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Channel Cronyism Vs. Corruption
Justified or not, there are more than a few people in this industry that think the channel engages in shady business practices on a regular basis. Adding some real fire to a concern that has usually been made up of more smoke is an allegation of misdeeds involving government contracts that has ensnared Accenture, EMC and NetApp.…
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EMC Adds VMware to Proven Solutions Portfolio
EMC will add VMware to its portfolio of EMC Proven vendors to help solution providers more easily virtualize their customers’ data centers and increase efficiency and cost savings. EMC’s Proven solutions are packages that incorporate EMC technology with that of other vendors to help solution providers address customers’ most common solutions needs, says Todd Pavone,…
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CA Sets Sights on Displacing Symantec, McAfee
To say the company formerly known as Computer Associates—now known simply as CA—has a tainted reputation is a bit of an understatement. For years, customers and partners complained about poor quality of service. Market analysts and media would joke about CA being a place where good products go to die. And the lasting impression of…
