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: Jan. 15, 2007
Cover Story
MSPs To Vendors: It's ROI Time
Last year's exuberant spending on managed services products has run its course. Now managed service providers are looking to see real results. Are MSP platform vendors getting the message?
>> THE MANAGED SERVICES LOWDOWN
>> 21 MSP-FRIENDLY VENDORS
>> 13 MSP PIONEERS
Review: Under The Hood Of 5 MSP Platforms
Solution providers dropped big bucks on managed services products in 2006. And for a number of MSPs, unfortunately, that money turned out to be not very well spent. To help ease product decision-making, the CRN Test Center took a close-up look at MSP platforms from SilverBack Technologies, LPI Level Platforms, N-able Technologies, AdventNet and Nagios.
Also In This Issue:
Salesforce.com Dangles A Big Carrot
A new pay-for-play system built into the company's AppExchange Directory entices ISVs with a SaaS-savvy pool of potential clients. So what's the catch?
Feeling Vulnerable: Adobe, Cisco Stung By Bugsb
Adobe Systems and Cisco Systems were a bit under the weather last week. Perhaps they caught a bug.
Review: Build State-Of-The-Art Sytems: Step One
Antec's BK640B chassis provides a solid foundation on which to build cutting-edge systems that adhere to MicroBTX motherboard specifications.
ShadowRAM: Truth, Rumors & Innuendo
Mark Cuban weighs in on the Trump vs. Rosie brouhaha, Ed Zander pedals into CES, Qwest looks to be on sales block.
These articles were mentioned in this issue of CRN.
• Apple iPhone Steals CES Show
• Dell's Backup Against The Services Wall
• Free Trips Sink HP Partner's Ship
• HaaS You Like It
• Wait For Vista Slows Synnex Sales
• Staples Buys Into MSP Market
• Harbach Gets His BearingPoint
• Mastering Microsoft
• Home Servers Lauded
• Microsoft, Tyler Technologies Go Public
• Kaseya Open For Business Re-engineering
• Strange But True: Scenes From CES
• 10 Hot Products From CES
• 10 Best Products Of The Year
• What's Hot, What's Not In 2007
COLUMNISTS
Steven Burke:
Robert Faletra:
Larry Hooper:
Heather Clancy:
Real Values
Time To Think Mobile
Here's an area that I'll bet CRN will be writing about a whole lot more in 2007: the impact of handhelds on corporate IT solutions.
The Final Cut
A 'Demand' Generation
One key differentiator between the best solution providers and the run-of-the-mill ones is their ability to plan and handle costly demand generation activities.
On The Record
Apple's Jobs Missing An Opportunity--Again
Here we go again with the genius that is Steve Jobs getting caught up in a strategy that is bound to limit Apple's long-term growth and cause users problems.
Under The Radar
How Apple's iPhone Trumped CES, Microsoft
It's no accident that Steve Jobs and Apple's iPhone trumped the industry's most anticipated confab and biggest software player.
