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.
Inside This Issue: 09/28/2009
Cover Story
7 Potential Obstacles To Windows 7 Bliss
In Windows 7, Microsoft has meticulously ironed out most of the wrinkles that annoyed Vista users. Microsoft deserves credit for making Windows 7 leaner and better performing than Vista, but there are still plenty of reasons to believe that the industry's migration to the operating system could be something less than an enthusiastic stampede.
Key To Real Customer Satisfaction
If Microsoft really wants to determine the entire customer's experience, it needs to go after the total customer experience to give it some benchmark data it can use for comparison as we move further along the path to cloud computing.
Fortinet IPO: Love Of Services
Whether the maker of network security solutions can successfully sell shares to investors during one of the most turbulent stock market periods in decades is anyone's guess, but if the bull market continues, Fortinet has a good chance of raising at least $100 million.
Healthy Returns
Now that electronic medical records technology has been around awhile, and is headed for the mainstream, health-care IT security concerns will skyrocket.
The CRN Test Center's Take: Is Windows 7 Worth It?
Many in the channel have said that the inability to upgrade from XP to Windows 7 is essentially a nonissue, preferring clean installs over upgrading. The question then becomes: Is it worth migrating to Windows 7? Our take on that is a resounding yes.
Dell's Channel Pricing Problem
One of the eye-opening moments from our recent XChange '09 conference was a solution provider complaining that Dell Direct is, in some cases, quoting prices that are 10 percent to 15 percent below the channel price on low-quantity servers or PCs.
Hot Trends With ROI
Everything Channel's 2009 State of Technology: Security survey shows that while customers are still buying security, they're increasingly gravitating toward products and solutions that increase ROI and add to their bottom lines.
AMD's New $99 Quad-Core Coming To A PC Near You
Tier 1 OEMs, custom system builders ready low-price desktop PCs based on new Athlon II X4 620 processor from Advanced Micro Devices.
Q&A: Check Point CEO Gil Shwed
Check Point CEO Gil Shwed sat down with Channelweb.com to discuss how its Software Blades architecture is being leveraged to stay competitive with innovative upstarts in the application firewall space.
No NOC? No Problem. Solution Providers Partner For Managed Services.
A pair of solution providers have teamed up to offer managed services under a new Cisco channel program that only requires one partner to have a NOC.
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