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IAM in the Cloud Drives Channel Opportunities, Challenges
The identity access management (IAM) market pretty much languished on-premise. Most IT organizations were fairly content to manage passwords via Microsoft Active Directory. However, with the rise of mobile computing and shadow IT services, all that has fundamentally changed. Now many IT organizations are desperate to leverage IAM services in the cloud to help regain…
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Channel News Briefs: Week of Aug. 17
Arrow Teams Up With Information Builders Information Builders, a provider of business intelligence (BI) and analytics, information integrity and integration solutions, is partnering with Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions to help small companies leverage advanced BI solutions without the involvement of IT. Arrow will distribute Information Builders’ WebFOCUS Express offering, which provides advanced BI benefits typically limited to large…
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Channel News Briefs: Week of Aug. 10
Avnet Technology Solutions has signed a distribution agreement with Nutanix to distribute its web-scale converged infrastructure solution in the United States and Canada. Under this agreement, Avnet will provide its channel partners with the Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform, which partners can use to design and develop converged compute and storage infrastructure for virtualized data centers. The…
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11 Important Facts to Know About IT Security
IT security report Number of Exploit Kits Drops Sharply Law enforcement is becoming more effective, but new kits are always being developed. The number of exploit kits has dropped by 87% since the alleged creator of the widely popular Blackhole exploit kit was arrested last year. Know Your Exploits Not every vulnerability translates into an…
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IoT Brings Channel New World of Opportunity, Challenges
PHOENIX—It was gratifying that there weren’t many buzzwords being bandied about at ChannelCon 2014, CompTIA’s gathering here this week of channel professionals. I only heard “paradigm shift” once, and it was during an Aug. 6 panel discussion on the Internet of things, or IoT. Almost apologizing for using what’s sometimes considered a catchphrase, panelist Dave…
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Channel News Briefs: Week of July 20
Tech Data Adds McAfee SaaS Offerings to Solutions Store McAfee will provide its software-as-a-service (SaaS) security offerings to Tech Data’s channel of solution providers through the company’s TDCloud business unit. The cloud-based security offerings, including McAfee’s SaaS Email Protection, SaaS Email Archiving and SaaS Web Protection, will be available through Tech Data’s Solutions Store. In addition,…
