Channel Tech Center

Security has become a cost of networking. Whereas security was once considered a completely separate discipline, it’s becoming increasingly clear that vendors are responding to customer demands for a more integrated approach.
Evidence of this convergence abounds. Security software vendors are lined up to port their wares to network infrastructure platforms from companies such as Hewlett-Packard, [...]

Looking to do a better job monitoring all of your network’s applications portfolio? The GV-2010 is a unit designed to give you very granular control over how your end users use particular applications, and inspect all of your content leaving your network.
We tested the appliance on a small network in February 2010.
Global Velocity GV-2010
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One of the historic problems with unified communications is how disjointed this set of technologies has really been. Most customers are really still unsure what it means to unify their communications and the various components of unified communications solution don’t always work so seamless together.
But at the same time, interest in increasing the productivity of [...]

With much fanfare Google today announced that a Nexus One smartphone is now available directly from Google. On the face of it, this would seem like the opening of the smartphone market, much to the potential benefit of solution providers in the channel.
But while the Nexus One smartphone essentially adds another supplier of phones made [...]

Do you worry that if your PC is stolen someone can copy all of your data? Then you should encrypt your hard drive and removable USB drives too. In this video, we will look at how Windows 7 has beefed up Bitlocker, its built-in encryption program.

In this video screencast, we will look at the differences of XP, Vista and Windows 7 when it comes to their networking controls. We will give you a quick overview of where you can find things that you know has to be somewhere in the new interface and also highlight new networking features too.

This screencast video shows you the difference between XP and Windows 7 when it comes to making backups and using its Libraries features to access your files on your hard drive.

There have been a lot of advancements in the area of telepresence that has gotten a fair amount of attention from customers. After all, the idea of being able to hold meeting using high-definition video conferencing systems that can be used to reduce travel time and budget has universal appeal. The issue, of course, has [...]

Profiler makes it easier to troubleshoot and manage up to five McAfee Enterprise firewalls from one central console and help you keep up with changes to your network and applications. You can examine the implications to real-time changes in your network before you commit them and also quickly do ad hoc analysis on rule sets.
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At the end of the day, solution providers in the channel need viable technologies that not only sell themselves, but also create an opportunity for the solution provider to deliver downstream services that are the key to ultimately being profitable. What follows is a list of 10 technology areas that in the last year have [...]