Recent Articles
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A Father’s Journey: 100 Marathon VAR Raises Awareness for Mental Illness
When it’s all going negative, and you can’t even remember what it was like to be positive, how do you turn that around? For Guy Fessenden, a longtime and well-respected VAR who had fallen on hard times following his daughter’s diagnosis of mental illness, the change came when he decided to take action again. Fessenden…
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Hospital Data Theft Hits 1.7M Patients, Employees
Thieves robbed a van containing health records for more than 1.7 million patients, staff, vendors and contractors of the North Bronx Healthcare Network in New York City. The computer backup tapes were stolen Dec. 23, but the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation began notifying victims Feb. 9, according to a statement issued Feb.…
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Intel vPro Tools Get Better Management, Security
FRAMINGHAM, Mass.—When Intel starts shipping its newest "Sandy Bridge" PC processors later this quarter, the chips will come with the latest generation of the company’s vPro on-board management and security capabilities that now will include the ability to lock down lost or stolen PCs via a 3G text message. Intel officials have put on demonstrations…
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Turning USB Sticks into Weapons of Mass Destruction
This story starts at the Washington, D.C., Auto Show, which is held at the end of January each year. While I was at the show, one of the people at the Land Rover display handed me a USB memory stick. I assumed that it contained a brochure or something similar, so I put it into…
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IBM’s Watson Beats Humans on Jeopardy!
The humans redeemed themselves in the second game of the man vs. machine "Jeopardy" tournament, after the previous game’s debacle, but it wasn’t enough. The best "Jeopardy" player is now a computer named Watson. Watson didn’t dominate the Feb. 16 game as thoroughly as it had on the previous night, with Ken Jennings and Brad…
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IBM Recruiting MSPs, SAAS Providers
IBM is quietly working to build its MSP channel by creating programs to help traditional VARs add or migrate to the emerging business model and also by recruiting MSPs to its traditional channel program. The quiet moves come amid a time when IBM and other big vendors are talking in broad terms about the cloud…
