Recent Articles
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Why Service Providers Should Rethink Their DDoS Strategies
DDoS attacks Business Threat 61% of service providers reported DDoS as a threat to their businesses. Taking Responsibility 45% of service providers believe they are solely responsible for the viability of their infrastructures during an attack. Attack Frequency 35% of service providers said they are hit with one or more attacks weekly. Only 16% said…
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Nimble Storage Rolls Out Tiered Channel Program
One of the signs that companies have reached a certain level of maturity is when they roll out their first tiered channel program. In the case of Nimble Storage, that moment has arrived in the form of a new global partner program that provides more incentives and sales-enablement tools for the company’s best partners without…
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Kaspersky Lab Revamps Its Channel Partner Program
With Kaspersky Lab North America celebrating its tenth year of doing business on the continent it would seem like there is no better time to revamp the channel programs of the security software provider. Kaspersky Lab North America is now giving partners the ability to achieve up to 50 percent margins and will be rewarded…
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Cisco Teams Up With Microsoft to Create MSP Platform
Cisco and Microsoft are pooling their collective resources as part of an effort to make the lives of managed service providers (MSPs) simpler. The two companies announced the Cisco Cloud Architecture for the Microsoft Platform, which combines an instance of Microsoft Azure Pack and Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure to create a unified platform for service…
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AVG Turns Identity Management Into a Service
Looking to imbue managed services with single sign-on capabilities, AVG Technologies has forged an alliance with Centrify. Under the terms of the deal, AVG will give managed service providers that make use of its platform the ability to control access to both cloud applications and what mobile devices access to network. “We’re making it possible…
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IT Decision Makers’ Biggest Fear: Privileged Users
Security check High Vulnerability 97% of U.S. financial services respondents reported they were somewhat or more vulnerable to insider threats, compared with 93% of U.S. retail respondents. However, 51% of U.S. retail organizations identified themselves as very or extremely vulnerable. Data Breaches 41% of U.S. financial services respondents have experienced a data breach or failed…
