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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…
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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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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…
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Beyond the Headlines of Disaster Preparedness
Hurricanes such as this year’s Ike and 2005’s Katrina are natural disasters that unfurl in slow-motion. Ike entered the inner Caribbean on Sept. 1 but didn’t make landfall in Galveston, Texas, for nearly two weeks. This gave tens of thousands of coastal residents time to evacuate to safer areas. But two weeks of preparation wasn’t enough to…
