Tag: IT

  • Altius IT Debuts Targeted Risk Assessment Package

    Karen Schwartz

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    Altius Information Technologies is aiming upstream and has retooled its existing risk assessment offerings to target midmarket firms with between 100 to 1,000 employees. The vendor has previously focused its AssessIT Risk Assessment services on smaller companies. The services focus on basic building blocks, such as anti-virus, tape backup and other basic levels of protection.… Read more

  • OnForce Takes Online IT Services Marketplace to Canada, U.K. and Germany

    OnForce Takes Online IT Services Marketplace to Canada, U.K. and Germany

    Jessica Davis

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    OnForce, the online marketplace for IT services, last month expanded into Canada and will soon expand into Germany and the United Kingdom. The move to Canada followed customer requests for an expansion there, OnForce executives said. For example, a typical user of the service would be a U.S. solution provider with a U.S. client looking… Read more

  • Tech Data Practices What It Preaches

    Tech Data Practices What It Preaches

    Sara Driscoll

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    Tech Data is practicing what it preaches. The distributor is rolling out a new unified IT system for its internal sales people in the biggest internal IT development project the firm has ever done. Speaking to Channel Insider following the distributor’s record Q3 results , Bob Dutkowsky said previously Tech Data’s sales people had to… Read more

  • Keeping It Elsewhere

    Frank Ohlhorst

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    The Web 2.0 world has brought many innovations to the market, while eliminating physical barriers between businesses and the Internet, especially when it comes to hosted services. Many businesses are fueling the growth of those Web-based services by adopting technologies such as software as a service, hosted office suites, Web applications and Asynchronous JavaScript and… Read more

  • Vendors Unite to Tackle IT Certifications

    Sara Driscoll

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    Rival technology vendors are putting their differences aside to jointly develop and address the perceptions of IT certifications. Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Microsoft, Sun and Novell, alongside industry organizations CompTIA (Computing Technology Industry Association) and the LPI (Linux Professional Institute) have formed the ITCC (Information Technology Certification Council). The council will provide information to employers, government officials,… Read more

  • Vendors Get Low Grades When It Comes to Managed Services

    Vendors Get Low Grades When It Comes to Managed Services

    Michael Vizard

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    When you consider the number of platitudes that channel executives tend to throw around about their support for the channel and the actual amount of vendor support there is for managed services today, you can’t help but wonder if most of the vendors really are that clueless or just can’t seem to get out of… Read more