Recent Articles
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SonicWall Brings Next Generation Unified Threat Management to the SMB Market.
When it comes to the NSA 240 from SonicWall, perhaps the question should be “what doesn’t it do?” Built upon the idea that all network traffic needs to be monitored and validated, the NSA relies on Re-Assembly Free Deep Packet Inspection (RFDPI) to provide Intrusion Protection, Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware, Content Filtering, and Application Management in a…
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Symantec May Not Name New Global Channel Chief
Reports out of the Symantec PartnerEngage 2008 in Washington DC this week say that Symantec Chief Operating Officer Enrique Salem may not replace Global Channel Chief Julie Parrish who recently announced her resignation from that position. Instead, Salem acknowledged Symantec may instead go with some kind of more regionally-based structure to manage the company’s channel…
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Symantec Needs to Focus on Relentless Execution
Symantec has a problem, and it’s not the fact that channel chief Julie Parrish resigned to join NetApp a few days before the company’s channel event in Washington, D.C. Fortunately, the issues challenging Symantec are about the same that any major technology company experiences after going on a series of acquisition binges. Right now,…
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Has Symantec Lost Its Way?
This week, security and storage solution providers will gather in Washington, D.C., for Symantec’s Partner Engage conference. Absent from the proceedings will be Julie Parrish, the iconic channel chief that has been the face of the Symantec channel for nearly six years. Parrish oversaw a litany of problems in her tenure as vice president…
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Parrish Departing Symantec for NetApp
Iconic channel chief and longtime leader of the Symantec partner program Julie Parrish is leaving the security and storage vendor at the end of the month to pursue new career opportunities. Reports of Parrish joining NetApp are unconfirmed. But sources say that she’ll be taking the position vacated by Leonard Iventosch last summer. NetApp released a…