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IBM Rolls Out Training, Funding for Emerging-Market VARs
Beginning today, VARs in the emerging markets of Brazil, China, India and Russia will have access to a funding and support network designed to bolster the training, resources, and, ultimately, sales for IBM’s Open Standards Solution providers in those countries. Two IBM programs that were announced today—IBM Venture Capital Advisory Council and IBM Virtual Innovations…
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Intel to Reveal Updated Multicore Schedule
Intel will have a multitude of multicore processors on hand this week at its fall developer forum, which opens Tuesday. Paul Otellini, CEO of the Santa Clara, Calif., chip maker, will kick it off by unveiling what is likely to be the biggest news from this year’s fall event. Otellini will open the three-day fall…
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Security Firm: Oracle Opatch Leaves Firms Uncovered
Think you’re patched? Think you’ll get the thumbs up from the auditor when he or she comes knocking on your door to make sure you’re in compliance with HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), or GLBA, or Visa CISP and MasterCard PCI? According to an upcoming paper from Next Generation Security Software Ltd., a…
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Worms Exploit Plug and Play Vulnerabilities
In 2003, the blaster worm infected as many as 10 million computers just three weeks after Microsoft Corp. issued a patch for the hole the worm exploited. Today, IT administrators would love to have even a week to patch their systems before a worm appears to exploit a new flaw. A mob of malicious programs…
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IP PBX Company Turns Focus to Channel
Vertical Communications was born a little less than a year ago, when the company’s leadership merged two longtime IP PBX players, Artisoft and Vertical Networks, in hopes of gaining critically needed traction in the crowded computer-based telephony field. In recent months, the Cambridge, Mass.-based company has been busy–both working to merge the best of Vertical…
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VARs On Guard Against August Virus Outbreaks
For many, August means summer vacations and watermelon, not desperate struggles with newly emerging viruses and other types of malware. For IT folk, however, summer heat and security threats go hand in hand. “August is a big month for viruses. We know when all the big viruses have gone out in the last fifteen years,…
