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Fed Video on Cybersecurity States the Obvious
President Obama didn’t announce the next cybersecurity czar, as speculated he would last Friday. However, the White House did unveil the ineptly named "Cyberspace Policy Review: Assuring a Trusted and Resilient Information and Communications Infrastructure." Accompanying the report was this video highlighting the need for better, coordinated government and private sector efforts to protect the…
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Good Sign? IT Distribution Downturn Levels Off, GTDC says
The worst may be over in relation to the sharp drop in IT industry sales that occurred over the past year, according to the Global Technology Distribution Council (GTDC). The GTDC cited recent trends revealed by The NPD Group’s Distributor Track, which captures GTDC members’ actual U.S. sales. "The recession that has hurt industries across…
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Data Discovery Features Make DLP Smarter
Data loss prevention (DLP) or, as it was originally called “data leak prevention,” has been more of a promise than a reality. Many of the products on the shelf today are designed as the data equivalents of antivirus pattern matching to detect the emailing or streaming of common data sets, such as Social Security and…
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Cisco Partners Eye Partner Summit to Get Scoop on Servers
Cisco partners are eager to learn more about the networking giant’s UCS solution in the data center, and find out how Cisco plans to help them grow international business opportunities. As Cisco prepares for its 2009 Channel Partner Summit, to be held June 1-4 in Boston, solution providers are speculating about what news, new products…
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Apple Means Business Technologies for the Mac and iPhone Platforms
Apple Means Business Technologies for the Mac and iPhone Platforms Distributors and VARs report that the Apple Macintosh platform has gained more momentum in business implementations in recent years. And while Apple hasn’t earned a great reputation with solution provider channel partners, VARs still sell and integrate Apple products. And other third-party companies that work…
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Brocade introduces Global Alliance Partner Network
Brocade has unveiled its new global Alliance Partner Network channel program, designed to attract storage and IP networking channel resellers with a more selective, profitable alternative to existing channel programs. The Brocade Alliance Partner Network maintains the elements of the existing Brocade storage networking channel program and expands these industry-leading best practices to include the…
