Recent Articles
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NAC: Not So Fast
The network access control market has come a long way in a relatively short time—since 2000 or so—but it still has a long way to go before it hits mass adoption. Before the technology becomes a hot-selling commodity, two things need to happen: A single set of industry standards must emerge, and solutions must become…
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Double-Take Releases Virtual Recovery Assistant for VMware
Partnering with virtualization market leader VMware certainly has its advantages, including a huge shared reseller channel eager to take advantage of Double-Take Software’s new virtual recovery assistant. The VRA is a free enhancement to Double-Take’s self-branded server virtualization software for Windows that provides real-time backup and automated failover for Windows applications. The VRA builds…
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EMC Ships New Bundle for VMware
EMC announced May 27 that it has begun shipping a new middleware bundle designed to simplify data backup and recovery on the two most ubiquitous business servers in the world—Microsoft Exchange Server and SQL Server — when they are deployed on the VMware platform. The bundle includes backup/recovery support for the new EMC Clariion AX4;…
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Time to Talk About Tablet PCs?
Tablet PCs have firmly established themselves in certain vertical markets where users don’t have offices or need to compute while standing. But as the tablet market matures, more sedentary office workers could benefit from using them, particularly when it comes to annotation and approval tasks. This presents opportunities for solution providers to spread the message…
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Despite Gloom and Doom Predictions, Vista Gains Momentum
VARs shouldn’t start singing the Windows Vista blues just yet. While Vista hasn’t exactly revolutionized operating systems or changed the world with software, it also hasn’t plummeted into a bottomless adoption gap as some analysts claimed it would. And if solution providers give Vista another chance, they just might find themselves singing a different tune.…