Recent Articles
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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…
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The Security Risks of Web 2.0 and Wireless
My early experiences as a reporter involved a typewriter. The very concept seems so remote it’s hard to believe at one time a small mistake would lead to unscrewing the cap off the White-Out or crumpling barely used sheets of paper. In a corner of my memory, I can still smell the White-Out and the…
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Former eEye CEO to Join Microsoft
Ross Brown, former CEO of eEye Digital Security and a veteran in the channel will start at Microsoft on June 2, Microsoft says. Brown will assume the title of vice president of solution and ISV partners in the Worldwide Partner Group and will develop and manage Microsoft’s global partner account managers who work with ISVs,…