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As if they needed more stress, organizations are facing evolving and increasingly stringent compliance regulations from the Payment Card Industry, as well as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA and others. Here are a few security compliance products that can make the audit process less excruciating.
Here are 10 of the distributor's hottest new offerings winning over solution providers.
New smartphones from Sony, Motorola and the first-ever Twitter-only mobile device -- the TwitterPeek -- headline a busy week for handset makers as the holiday shopping season heats up.
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Shareholders Grill Ballmer On Apple, Windows MobileAt Microsoft's annual shareholder meeting, CEO Steve Ballmer found himself answering the same questions he's been fielding for several years, and his answers weren't much different than in the past.
Google Releases Chrome OS To Open Source
Google is providing more detail around its plans for Chrome OS, much of which centers on addressing the complexity that has long plagued users of a certain widely-used proprietary operating system.
Google is providing more detail around its plans for Chrome OS, much of which centers on addressing the complexity that has long plagued users of a certain widely-used proprietary operating system.
Salesforce's Force.com Dev Platform Gains Traction
Company sets alliances with CA and BMC Software that expand the Force.com cloud computing ecosystem.
Company sets alliances with CA and BMC Software that expand the Force.com cloud computing ecosystem.
Varnex VAR Poll: From Health Care To Windows 7
Synnex conducts a realtime poll of solution provider members at its Varnex conference. Here's a look at the questions, along with the percentage of the audience selecting each answer, followed by comments from some vendors.
Synnex conducts a realtime poll of solution provider members at its Varnex conference. Here's a look at the questions, along with the percentage of the audience selecting each answer, followed by comments from some vendors.
Palo Alto Networks Preps For (Another) Channel Close-Up
Firewall start-up set to debut updated channel program 11 months after eliminating its channel chief position.
Firewall start-up set to debut updated channel program 11 months after eliminating its channel chief position.
IBM Enlists Partners In Mission To Create A Smarter Planet
IBM's Rich Michos rallied solution providers at this week's XChange Tech Innovators conference to join in the push to build a smarter planet.
IBM's Rich Michos rallied solution providers at this week's XChange Tech Innovators conference to join in the push to build a smarter planet.
Zlago Brings The Cloud Down To Earth For Small Businesses
Zlago offers hosted desktop services for small businesses, complete with e-mail, security and storage, which VARs can private-label to their customers.
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We like the code name "Karmic Koala" but how does Ubuntu 9.10 measure up to Windows 7?
Company's latest media player is the first we've seen that plays almost every type of format.
Iomega recently released a new NAS device that is a pleasure to use -- if you can get past a few caveats.
Company's new Conserve Surge with Timer, the first in a line that will focus on ways for IT and facility departments to help manage electric usage.
Micosoft Office Web Apps inevitably will be compared to Google Docs. The CRN Test Center finds some advantages and disadvantages in choosing Office Web Apps over Google Docs.
Lexmark recently reworked its entire inkjet printer line. The CRN Test Center takes a look at the Prestige, one of the new Professional class models.
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Zlago offers hosted desktop services for small businesses, complete with e-mail, security and storage, which VARs can private-label to their customers.
LogLogic takes complex log data and turns it into something manageable.
The Axxana Phoenix System helps organizations achieve zero-data-loss disaster recovery without distance limits in a cost-effective manner when compared with traditional mirroring.
Small business backups are tough, but 3X Systems enables solution providers to build a mini storage cloud with a new backup appliance that keeps up with mobile and desktop PCs.
Xobni fills the gaps in Microsoft Outlook with more efficient organization of contact information, building profiles that allow users to quickly find the people with whom they're trying to connect.
Cloud-computing-related stocks are up significantly of late, but will they stay strong as they continue to draw more scrutiny?
Engine Yard provides application deployment and management services for solution providers who develop Ruby on Rails-based cloud applications for customers.
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Mobile support is near, and support for hardware decoding as well as touch screens is here.
Will Polycom relish being the independent alternative in videoconferencing -- or did it just become a prime acquisition target?
23 Ways To Speed WinXP Without Defrag
At Symantec PartnerEngage 2009, at the JW Marriott in Orlando, Fla., partners came away with new channel tools, a new services strategy and a brand new set of culinary skills. Here are a few scenes from the show.
Which vendors are challenging the entrenched market leaders and are poised to become tomorrow's best sellers?
As the hype subsides, it's clear the buzz on Barnes & Noble's 'Kindle killer' has some merit.
The success of Amazon's Kindle has made it all but synonymous with e-reading, but as cheaper, more varied and more multifunctional devices come to the fore, Amazon will be tested.
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Free Xbox LIVE Gold This Weekend
Silver members can get a free trial of all the gaming system's features Nov. 20-23.
11/20/2009 05:04 PM EST
Rosenthal: Extraordinary Thinking Leads To Extraordinary Results
If you want to drive exceptional sales growth you need to think differently.
11/20/2009 04:35 PM EST
Tech Visionary Polese: Cloud Spells Big Opportunity For The Channel
Technology Visionary Kim Polese says the future could not be brighter for the channel.
11/20/2009 04:18 PM EST
Barnes & Noble: Nook E-Reader Sold Out Through Holidays
If you haven't ordered a Nook already, you won't see one until January at the earliest.
11/20/2009 03:38 PM EST
Sony's Online Service Takes PlayStation Network One Step Beyond
Sony puts its PlayStation Network on steroids, networking more devices and providing more downloadable content.
11/20/2009 11:53 AM EST
Plug Into Your Own Cloud With Updated Pogoplug
Cloud Engines updates the Pogoplug, which connects your USB drive to the Internet to access and share your files with anyone or a select set of users from anywhere, according to the company.
11/20/2009 10:41 AM EST
Microsoft Retail Store Dancing Video Goes Viral
A new video making the rounds shows Microsoft employees dancing in organized fashion at one of the company's newly opened retail stores. Is this just another ham-fisted guerilla marketing campaign from Microsoft?
11/19/2009 07:58 PM EST
Dell Reports Large Q3 Revenue, Income Declines
Dell reported large declines in its fiscal third quarter 2010 revenue and income compared to the same period last year, with enterprise and SMB drops leading the way.
11/19/2009 07:46 PM EST
Ballmer Says Windows 7 Sales Booming
Microsoft spent much of this week sharing its vision of the cloud computing future with developers, but CEO Steve Ballmer wants people to know that Windows 7 sales are chugging along at a record pace.
11/19/2009 06:16 PM EST
Interop: Cloud Computing Adopters Ready To 'Trust, But Verify'
CIO panelists at Interop New York tell cloud providers like Microsoft, Amazon, Joyent and Google that security is still a big risk for cloud computing.
11/19/2009 04:44 PM EST
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Droid Enters Ring Against BlackBerry, iPhoneMotorola and Verizon on Friday make available to the public the Droid: the touch-screen, Android 2.0-based smartphone that is perhaps the most aggressively feature-rich phone on the market today based on the Google-driven mobile OS.
Hot Products From VoiceCon San FranciscoVoiceCon San Francisco brought some of the latest in enterprise telephony, networking, infrastructure and UC products to the Moscone Center. Here's a look at some of what attendees saw.
ARC: Best Vendors, Worst Vendors For ROIHow do vendors rate in terms of the return on investment that solution providers say they receive? See which vendors are given thumbs up -- and which thumbs down -- by their VARs.
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