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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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The 25 Most Innovative Executives Of 2009
Our list of the most innovative executives of the year spotlights the people that are pushing the envelope with new products and channel programs to bring solution providers to new heights.
Services Help Push HP Q4 Profit Up 14 Percent
Services and financial services did well in HP's fourth fiscal quarter, but the company was dragged down by hardware and software sales. Next year, however, the company should see a rebound, HP said.
Services and financial services did well in HP's fourth fiscal quarter, but the company was dragged down by hardware and software sales. Next year, however, the company should see a rebound, HP said.
3 Reasons Why Microsoft's Azure Will Succeed
Links with on-premise software and extensive data management capabilities give the cloud computing platform an edge.
Links with on-premise software and extensive data management capabilities give the cloud computing platform an edge.
10 Tech Turkeys For 2009Most everyone loves Thanksgiving turkeys. But IT industry turkeys? Not so much. We look at 10 examples of 'turkeys' that have disappointed the tech industry this year.
Scenes From TechSelect, Disney Style
More than 280 VARs helped Tech Data celebrate the 10th anniversary of TechSelect at Walt Disney World Nov. 12-14. Solution providers got business advice from Tech Data and Disney executives, including Mickey mouse himself.
More than 280 VARs helped Tech Data celebrate the 10th anniversary of TechSelect at Walt Disney World Nov. 12-14. Solution providers got business advice from Tech Data and Disney executives, including Mickey mouse himself.
Tech Data Sees 4Q Sales Increase
Tech Data is predicting a year-over-year sales increase its fourth fiscal quarter ending January 31, 2010.
Tech Data is predicting a year-over-year sales increase its fourth fiscal quarter ending January 31, 2010.
Xangati Promises Better Management, Faster Flow InfoXangati's Application Management 2.0 is geared toward service providers and enterprise IT managers ready to use streaming, collaboration and user-generated content to manage service levels.
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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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Xangati's Application Management 2.0 is geared toward service providers and enterprise-level IT managers ready to use streaming, collaboration and user-generated content as a tool to manage service levels.
How to prosper from the cloud computing revolution dominated the discussion at Everything Channel's Tech Innovator's 2009 in Las Vegas this week.
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.
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Find out which executives made the grade and held their own, despite the great IT downturn of 2009.
The Sixth Annual Tech Innovators Awards, unveiled this week at the XChange Tech Innovators conference in Las Vegas, honored companies for using new methods or technologies to deliver top-notch products.
Cisco's North American channel chief checks in on video, UCS, data center, smart grid and that pesky rivalry with HP.
CRN hit the Big Easy to name this year's Channel Champions. Here's a look at the winners.
With CES 2009 kicking off this week, ChannelWeb is giving you a sneak peek at a host of hot products that will make waves at the Consumer Electronics Showcase. From the strange to the necessary, here are 25 products you shouldn't miss at the show.
23 Ways To Speed WinXP Without Defrag
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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Brocade Ramps Up Revenue 31 Percent In Q4
The acquisition last December of Foundry has made Brocade, long a mainstay in the storage network industry, a new force to be reckoned with in the Ethernet networking market.
11/23/2009 08:38 PM EST
Report: Microsoft Windows 8 Coming In 2012
Windows 7 is still bathed in the afterglow of its launch last month, but already details are emerging about its successor, Windows 8.
11/23/2009 06:10 PM EST
Syncsort Sets Channel Program For Data Protection Software Resellers
Company targets solution providers that develop data storage and virtualization services
11/23/2009 06:08 PM EST
Exploit Code Available For Zero-Day IE Flaw
Researchers publish exploit code for a critical CSS vulnerability in Microsoft IE 6 and 7 that enables hackers to launch malicious attacks on users' PCs.
11/23/2009 04:43 PM EST
Data Robotics' DroboElite Adds iSCSI SAN Capability
Data Robotics' new DroboElite, a follow-on product to the DroboPro released to SMB channel partners earlier this year, can be used as a low-cost way to add iSCSI SAN capabilities.
11/23/2009 04:33 PM EST
Google To Acquire Display Ad Customizer Teracent
The move is the latest in a growing string of acquisitions by the online search giant.
11/23/2009 03:10 PM EST
Apple iPhone Sales Rise In France After Exclusive Carrier Contract Ends
The ending of the exclusive iPhone carrier contract in France last April, and a strong first-day sales by Orange in the U.K. after exclusivity ended there, could foretell changes in the U.S. market if AT&T loses exclusivity as expected.
11/23/2009 02:58 PM EST
Climate Change E-mail Hack Could Lead To Future Attacks
Hackers posted e-mails and documents onto an anonymous FTP server in Russia, as well as a link to the 61-MB file on the blog Air Vent, accompanied by a note that read, "We feel that climate science is, in the current situation, too important to be kept under wraps.
11/23/2009 02:46 PM EST
iPhone, Android Devices Lead Smartphone Ad Serving
Apple's iPhone now accounts for over half of the mobile ads served by smartphones worldwide and in the U.S., with Android a strong second in the U.S., according to a new report from AdMob.
11/23/2009 02:41 PM EST
Malicious New iPhone Worm Attacks Jailbroken Phones
New worm seen over the weekend targets jailbroken iPhones and phishes for bank passwords.
11/23/2009 01:15 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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