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June 3, 2009   Brought to you by Ziff Davis Enterprise On-the-Go News for IT Resellers, VARs and Tech Partners! From our knowledgeable and trusted editors comes the latest content for the Channel, now available on your handheld device. Visit mobile.channelinsider.com. • EMC Makes Surprise Bid for Data Domain • Server Market Slip 'n Slide: Where Do Your Vendors Fit? • Cyberwar Arms Race May Create New Channel Opportunities • Acer to Sell Google OS Android Netbook PCs in Q3 • HP Software Revamps Partner Program Licensing • Cisco Extends Payment Terms, Financing Options Collaboration First Up for Cisco Partners At its partner event today, Cisco is introducing IP telephony endpoints, expanded opportunities to sell TelePresence systems, and new collaboration and unified communications solutions and licensing options. READ MORE >> Microsoft's Grand ForeFront Plan Microsoft will begin releasing the next generation of its security suite, ForeFront: Code Name Stirling, at the end of the year. Doug Leland, general manager of Microsoft's Identity and Security Unit, discusses the advancements in ForeFront and Microsoft's vision for its security products. WATCH NOW >> Web 2.0 Insecurities In this Changing Channels podcast hosted by Mike Vizard, the director of product marketing for Web and data security at Websense, David Meizlik, talks about the security opportunities for solution providers that result from the continued proliferation of Web 2.0 applications. LISTEN NOW >> EMC Makes Surprise Bid for Data Domain EMC could short-circuit NetApp's plans to acquire Data Domain with a tempting all-cash offer of $1.8 billion and plans to combine deduplication technologies. READ MORE >> Server Market Slip 'n Slide: Where Do Your Vendors Fit? Server hardware sales have taken a larger than average hit this past year, due mainly to the recession but also to the wave of server and data center virtualization. IBM and HP lead the pack of vendors, but for better trending take a look at these numbers. READ MORE >> Cyberwar Arms Race May Create New Channel Opportunities President Obama's plan to secure the Internet and the U.S. critical infrastructure is motivating the Pentagon to create new defensive and offensive weapons for cyberpace. That may open new opportunities for solution providers and integrators. READ MORE >> Acer to Sell Google OS Android Netbook PCs in Q3 The netbooks will run on Intel's low-cost and low-performance Atom processor; the company also said it would continue to ship netbooks with Microsoft Windows. READ MORE >> 10 Ways to Make Sure Mobile Workers Aren't Slacking The standard 9-5 day job is rare. We live our lives switched on and plugged in. This creates an expectation. People expect work to support a more fluid style of life. Now, the bad news: If you can't see it, monitor it, or measure it, how do you manage it and make sure your mobile workers are really working? DOWNLOAD NOW >> How to Prevent Data Loss with an Exchange Migration Most migrations can't be done over a single weekend -- many take several weeks or months. During that time, it's critical that messaging functionality be up and running without interruption, even when some user accounts are housed in Exchange Server 2007 and others remain in the source messaging platform. DOWNLOAD NOW >>

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