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Cisco, EMC Partner for Data Security
Cisco Systems and EMC announced a plan to integrate products and services to provide end-to-end security for enterprise data. The partnership, made public April 7 as part of a press and analyst session during the RSA Conference in San Francisco, will initially focus on DLP (data loss prevention), data encryption and key management. The collaboration promises…
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Is Microsoft Finally Taking Security Seriously?
For some time now, the channel has always had a problem putting the words security and Microsoft together in a sentence. Whether or not Microsoft deserves the reputation for a lack of secure products is a debate that rages on throughout the industry; it all comes down to perception. People today perceive Microsoft’s products as…
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Cisco Sets Sights on the Data Center
Cisco is hoping to transform the data center and is relying on its partners to help in what the networking vendor said is a $14 billion opportunity. Speaking at its Partner Summit in Honolulu April 8, Cisco said it intends to double sales of hardware into the data center in the next five years to…
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Security Channel May Be Heading for a Contraction
A few years back there was a mass migration in the channel to security technology as solution providers, driven by a hunger for more profitability, looked for new areas where they could find higher margins. Most were responding to the fact that the number of solution providers selling network infrastructure had ballooned so much that…
