Tag: application

  • The Myth of Faster, Bigger, Better

    The Myth of Faster, Bigger, Better

    Channel Insider Staff

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    Still blindly following the hardware-centric myth that “better, faster, cheaper” will solve all ills, the networking industry continues to revel in the speeds and feeds of its latest products while IT managers are drowning in the cost and complexity of making the current ones work. Today’s approaches to application networks do not reduce cost and… Read more

  • e-Security, Cisco Partner on Application Security

    e-Security, Cisco Partner on Application Security

    Paul F. Roberts

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    e-Security Inc. plans to announce a deal Thursday that will join its security information management technology with application security hardware from Cisco Systems Inc. The two companies have signed a joint marketing agreement and will integrate e-Security’s Security Sentinel software with Cisco’s AON (Application Oriented Networking) hardware. The combined product will feed application data collected… Read more

  • Is System Lockdown the Secret Weapon?

    Is System Lockdown the Secret Weapon?

    Andrew Garcia

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    In the ongoing battle to fight internal and external threats on the corporate desktop, IT staffers may be forgetting one very potent weapon in their arsenal—system lockdown. As corporate IT managers evaluate products and technologies designed to protect corporate Windows-based computers against the ever-present tide of spyware, worms and Trojans, they should also consider a… Read more

  • VARs Take Notice: Vendors Are Customers Too

    VARs Take Notice: Vendors Are Customers Too

    Elliot Markowitz

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    I know I have been guilty of this in the past: dividing the technology universe into three oversimplified buckets of vendors, channel partners and end-user customers. I never identify an end-user organization, the ultimate stop on the technology bus, as just a customer because to me, the channel of VARs, integrators, VADs and solution providers,… Read more

  • Digest: News from Computer Associates, SAP, Juniper Networks

    John Hazard

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    CA’s new SMB Track gives extra tools to VARs in the SMB space, Globoforce will allow SAP VARs to provide gift certificates and sales rewards to individual salespeople, and Juniper Networks will qualify partners as Application Acceleration Specialists. CA SMB Specialist Track to Offer Tools and Resources Designed to Sell and Serve the SMB Continuing… Read more

  • New Tools Diagnose App Problems

    New Tools Diagnose App Problems

    Darryl K. Taft

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    Two new methods of application problem resolution will find their way to market this week, targeting both service-oriented architectures and Java application server-based environments. IBM is expected to announce new software based on its Tivoli and WebSphere platforms and leveraging the BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) to advance BPM (business process management) in SOAs. The… Read more