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Symantec Partners: Parrish Leaves Big Shoes to Fill
Solution providers are shocked that Julie Parrish is leaving Symantec, and say she’s leaving big shoes to fill in the global channel chief office. In an internal memo obtained by Channel Insider, Symantec Chief Operating Officer Enrique Salem announced Parrish would leave Symantec at the end of October. Symantec confirmed that Parrish was leaving to…
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DandH Increases Credit for Resellers
VARs are wary of the uncertainty and chaos in financial markets and its potential to filter down to their businesses as well, but they haven’t seen that happen. Yet. That’s the message they sent to their distributor at D&H Distributing’s conference in Pennsylvania this week, according to Dan Schwab, co-president of the Harrisburg, Pa.-based SMB…
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Working at Home Has Its Benefits
A recent study by the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) confirms what I have known for years–working at home makes you more productive. I know because I accomplish more in my home office during the average workday than I was able to when I worked in a corporate environment. The study concludes that people who…
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IBMs Earnings Strength Calms Tech Jitters
By Tiffany Wu NEW YORK, Oct 8 (Reuters) – IBM (IBM) posted a higher-than-expected preliminary quarterly profit and affirmed its full-year outlook, calming some fears that the financial crisis is sparking a meltdown in technology demand. Shares of IBM, the world’s largest computer services company, rose 6 percent on the news, which also bolstered other…
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Symantec to Buy MessageLabs for $695M
By Jim Finkle BOSTON, Oct 8 (Reuters) – Symantec Corp (SYMC), the No. 1 security software maker, plans to expand its Internet services business by acquiring online messaging and Web security services provider MessageLabs for $695 million. The move, announced on Wednesday, will add the privately held company’s instant-messaging, e-mail and Internet-security products to Symantec’s…
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Don`t Jump for the Quantum Leap in Cryptography
Several years ago, I was editing a primer on something that sounded radically new and exciting: quantum cryptography. Imagine, an encryption system that’s based entirely on the subatomic nature of the universe and entirely unbreakable. It’s the kind of stuff you’d see on Star Trek where even the best efforts of Data and Spock couldn’t…
