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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If many vendors don't shore up their approval ratings, their revevance in the channel will soon fade away.
VARs: Vendors Better At Products Than Partnering
In the 2007 VARBusiness Annual Report Card survey, partners generally gave their vendors the best scores in the area of product innovation, quality and reliability. But partnership and support scores disappointed.
Award Winner's Photo Gallery
If you didn't have the privilege of attending the XChange conference, visit our slide show and see who scored the biggest ARC victories.
2007's Top Innovators
No one comes close to Intel in the area of product innovation. Solution providers gave the vendor the top grade.
2007's Support Leaders
In the ARC, vendor support was rated according to five metrics. Once again, Intel was right up on top, followed by Xerox.
Slide Show: The Best And Worst Of The ARC
Vendors had no problem acing product innovation in the ARC survey, but their scores in partnership and support were a little disappointing.
Annual Report Card Search
Category Profiles:
Client or Server Processors: Regaining A Technology Edge
Mainstream Business Servers: HP Squeaks By IBM
Mobile Computers: HP Stands Alone
Voice Networking Hardware: Cisco First Choice For VoIP
Wireless Infrastructure: Still On Top Of The Heap
Security Appliances: A Meteoric Rise To The Top
Data & Information Management: Oracle Trumps Microsoft, IBM
Network Infrastructure: Show Of Support, Times Two
Storage Management Software: EMC Takes Storage Crown
Security Software: Channel Friendliness Counts
Business Software/Strategic: Security Strategic Software
Business Software/Management: Oracle, Sage Share Laurels
Network Storage: Lots Of Love For EMC And HP
Display Technologies: Fifth Time's Still A Charm
Workgroup Color Printers: Back To That Winning Feeling
