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: October 1, 2007
Cover Story
Beware The Bust Out
VARs need to be on the lookout for one of the channel's mots insidious and costly forms of fraud.
>> Slide Show: To Catch A Thief
Watch a slide show of investigator Gary Bares at work.
>> Credit Scams: On The Trail With A Fraud Investigator
>> Credit Fraud: The Big Heist
News Analysis
Hire Education
CRN's Fast Growth companies want to know: How do you find top talents and also keep them happy?
>> And The Award Goes To ... Fast Growth Gala
Cisco Casts Network Net
New Cisco networks have ISV partner community-building in mind.
Upstarts Startups
Abbyy Road
Abbyy USA, a Russian-rooted ISV, comes on strong thanks to SMB focus.
Tech Focus
ProCurve: Switch Hit
Hewlett-Packard rolls out its first network core swwitch with a lifetime warranty.
Tech Focus: Custom Systems
D-Link Combo: UBS, FireWire Card
Company's combo USB and FireWire PCI card manages port traffic.
ShadowRAM: Rumors, Truth & Innuendo
And You Thought Running Cisco Channels Was Tough; Dutkowsky: Let Them Eat Cake; Seen And Heard.
These articles were mentioned in this issue of CRN.
• Apple Legend Woz Blasts iPhone Price Drop And Refund Policy
• Slide Show: How, Where And Why VARs Buy
• Torvalds 'Feeling Happy' About Next Linux Release
• Tough Notebook Challenge: Which Notebooks Take A Beating And Keep On Booting?
• HP To Expand Effort On Linux PCs
• Wozniak Rips iPhone Pricing
• 3Com Says Yes To Acquistion By Bain Capital, Huawei
• Xerox And HP On The Attack In Marketing Dustup
• Sun Juices x86 Servers
• New Cisco Offerings Cover Networking, VoIP
• Microsoft WPC Headed For Houston In '08
• Red Hat Has Channel To Thank For Better 2Q
• Synnex Success In 3Q
• Novell Is NYC Transit's Choice For Security
• EMC Likes Its Chances In SaaS Business
COLUMNISTS
Robert C. DeMarzo:
Channel Centric
The Top 10 Traits Of Fast-Growth VARs
There are many VARs who are afraid to grow via acquistion because of the possibility of failure or the time it takes to close a deal.
Craig Zarley:
Craig's Lists
How Fast Does Your Business Grow?
Solution providers who are looking to shift into hyper-growth mode, according to CMP Channel Group's Business Growth 2007 survey, there is a well-defined formula for success.
Steven Burke:
The Final Cut
TaaS--The New MSP
Arnie Bellini, CEO of ConnectWise calls the next MSP business model Technology-as-a-Service (TaaS). Simply put, it means acting as a virtual, end-to-end, any-and-all technology provider.
Larry Hooper:
Under The Radar
They May Not Stay
There's been talk in the channel among solution providers about how difficult itis to hire good people. Both good technical people and good salespeople are getting harder to find.
