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Westcon Group Creates Comstor Worldwide to Sell Cisco Gear
Looking to sharpen its focus for Cisco products and customers, specialty networking distributor Westcon Group says that Cisco products will now be sold worldwide through the Comstor brand widely known for Cisco sales – creating a Comstor Worldwide organization. The change is expected to enable partners to leverage more resources, says longtime Comstor executive Bill…
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Trust No Site Web Borne Threats Continue to Skyrocket
Trust No Site Web Borne Threats Continue to Skyrocket This week Websense Security Labs revealed the results from research conducted thus far in 2009 within its State of Internet Security report. Channel Insider dives into the stats and examines the report highlights. By Ericka Chickowski No Title The number of malicious sites found by Websense…
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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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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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Sophos Giving Away AV Free with All HP Integrity Purchases
Sophos and HP are teaming up today to offer current HP customers more value from their server dollars by giving away free Sophos antivirus for a year alongside all new Integrity server purchases. “It represents a big offer from us because we don’t usually give anything away for free,” says Christopher Doggett, director of global…
