Managed Services

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  • Heartland Technology Solutions Names New President

    Heartland Technology Solutions, the Iowa pioneer managed services in the channel, has a new president — Connie Arentson. HTS announced the promotion of Arentson, who most recently served as vice president of professional services, where she oversaw professional services engagements and lead the company’s Precision Agriculture business unit. Arentson has been with HTS since 1995,…

  • Radware Teams Up with RSA to Boost Real-Time Solutions

    Radware is hoping to lure more business from managed security service providers (MSSPs) now that a new partnership with EMC’s RSA business will enable it to refine its intrusion prevention system (IPS) and Denial of Service protection solution. Radware announced last week a relationship with RSA that will enable Radware DefensePro customers to take advantage…

  • Managed Security Market to Double by 2015

    Managed Security Service Providers are thriving in the North American market as businesses struggle to keep up with data security concerns and compliance mandates, analysts with Frost & Sullivan announced Thursday. Even as other IT products and services are seeing declines or flat sales figures, Frost & Sullivan reports that MSSPs will continue to experience…

  • Managed Services: Time to Grow Up?

    Pundits love to surmise the state of technology markets: What’s up, what’s down, what’s still to come. A particular favorite is the topic of managed services. Despite its prominence in headlines for nearly five years now – and a whole predecessor market that included the failed ASP model – the state of managed services is…

  • Microsoft VARs View Google Chrome OS as Opportunity

    Plenty of pundits are talking about how much Microsoft has to lose when Google releases its Chrome operating system, scheduled to debut on consumer netbooks at the end of 2010. And aside from Linux itself, Google’s forthcoming Linux-based Chrome OS may very well pose the biggest threat to Microsoft’s OS dominance that the company has…

  • SecureWorks Finalizes Deal to Purchase VeriSign Managed Security Services Business

    After a fledgling start in the SMB space 10 years ago, SecureWorks yesterday cemented its standing as a top-flight managed security services provider with its closing on the acquisition of the Managed Security Services division from VeriSign.   Announced this May, the deal brings much of VeriSign’s security business under the SecureWorks banner, but not…

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