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, [...]

DataCove fast tracks the abilty to meet SOX and HIPPA compliance for email archival requirements. The appliance offers comprehensive auditing, reporting and archiving of email traffic across an enterprise and works seamlessly with a multitude of email servers. Businesses will find after running a DataCove appliance for just a few days, that DataCove provides a simple and effective way for orgainizations to handle the thorny issues surrounding email archiving and compliance.

Panda Cloud Office Protection combines the best features of desktop security with the flexibility of consolidated remote management into a single, easy to deploy package

There’s a lot of debate these days over where to deploy various applications. Some folks think everything should automatically juts become a service in the cloud, while others point to a variety of technical, legal and strategic reasons for why that might not be such a good idea.
For example, a lot of existing applications are [...]

Imaging has become one of the preferred methods to backup PCs today. However, the technology lends itself well to many other capabilities. Paragon Software has recognized those capabilities and now highlights those abilities in the latest release of their imaging product.

Reading through some of the thousand articles already floating about the internet, and the actual emails and attachments, it’s pretty disheartening that some basic security rules weren’t being followed.

Although the credit for the concept goes as far back as Symantec and McAfee, vendors of different stripes are now in the process of turning their client software into platforms for delivering all kinds of IT services.
Besides Symantec and McAfee, we now see Lumension adding anti-virus software to its suite of systems management tools. Sophos [...]

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 [...]

Over the years IT organizations have deployed appliances to handle all kinds of specific tasks on the network, ranging from security to application acceleration. But too much of a good thing has resulted in a Byzantine maze of appliances at the edge of the network that have become cumbersome and costly to manage.
In the meantime, [...]

All things being equal, the channel doesn’t see cloud computing and software-as-a-service as being two of the friendliest technology trends to emerge in the last few years. But as we all know by now, these trends are not going away. And when you get past the emotional issues associated with any fundamental shift to a [...]