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CompTIA Taps CEA Exec as New CEO
Consumer Electronics Association executive Todd Thibodeaux will take over in July as president and CEO of IT trade association CompTIA, according to organization officials. Thibodeaux will take over on July 1 for outgoing CEO John Venator. Venator had planned to step down in 2009, but recently moved up his retirement to care for his elderly…
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A PC Tune-Up to Improve Vista Performance
By Frank J. Ohlhorst One of the biggest complaints users have about Vista is slow performance. With Vista, slow boot ups and application launches are mostly the nature of the beast. After all Vista is chock full of services and code to help protect users from threats. Large Software is taking on the speed challenge…
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Automated Backups Give Client Weekends Back
Russ Erickson is thrilled to have his weekends back. The system administrator for food distributor Nicholas & Company used to spend about six hours every Saturday night at the office, backing up Nicholas & Co.’s servers. But with the help of IBM VAR Vision Solutions, Nicholas & Co.’s new state-of-the-art data center combines energy efficiency,…
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AlgoSec FireFlow Heats Up Firewall Market
Network security VARs, take note: AlgoSec’s FireFlow network policy change workflow management software is the next hot-ticket item for customers. But VARs will have to wait until 2009 to get their hands on it. AFA (AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer) was a big hit with Lightwave Security’s customers, says Lightwave CEO Joseph Dell. But while AFA analyzes…
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Digital Pen Maker Writes New Channel Program
Looking for an incremental revenue stream with a gee-whiz factor too? A company called Adapx is rolling out a channel program for a digital pen that captures a user’s handwritten notes, stores them inside the pen, and then transfers them to the user’s PC once the pen is docked. What’s more, the pen actually has…
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VARs Use Voltaire VMA to Battle Technology ‘Arms Race’
Originally developed for use in financial services, Voltaire’s high-performance switches and InfiniBand technology can help VARs bring increased networking speed and power to customers looking for an edge over their competition. Voltaire’s Grid Director is a high-bandwidth, low-latency switch based on the InfiniBand standard. It can be used to create high-performance computing clusters from industry-standard…
