Recent Articles
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Netgear’s FVS336G Shows There’s Still Some Life Left in Selling Firewalls
Network security for a small business can be a funny thing. After all, small businesses need the same level of protection that is found in an enterprise, yet small businesses don’t have an enterprise budget, which creates a conundrum for VARs looking to secure those small-business customers. Netgear’s vision is to give small businesses good…
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CA Focuses on Managing the Identity Lifecycle
CA is unveiling the next phase of its identity and access management strategy with new releases designed to strengthen certification and compliance reporting for enterprises. The company June 9 announced plans for three products — CA Identity Manager, CA Access Control and CA Security Compliance Manager — as part of the CA Identity Access Manager release 12. The three…
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Symantec Extends Deal Registration Discounts
Symantec improved the terms of its opportunity registration, including extending the discounts from the program its Silver tier of partners. The extension of its deal registration is among several changes the company made recently to its partner program, all designed to further reward and provide incentives to its top tiers of partners. First, Symantec will…
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Learning To Love UAC
User Access Control in Windows Vista has been such a controversial development that it’s worth re-examining periodically. Let’s restate the purpose of UAC: It is to allow the user to run the system as a standard user, not administrator, and still have relatively easy access to privileged operations when they are necessary. UAC (click here…
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Symantec Brings SAAS to Storage with Hosted Backup
When most people hear the acronym SAAS they automatically think of software as a service, but Symantec wants people to think storage as a service instead, at least in the case of Symantec Protection Network. SPN is Symantec’s first venture into the hosted backup and hosted storage market, and the company is hoping that the…
