CompTIA Aims for Inclusion at Breakaway

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August 3, 2009   Sponsored by Ziff Davis Enterprise Surveys: 10 Most Coveted Technologies Solution providers will join two to three vendor partner programs this year, mostly to gain access to new technologies and products, according the Channel Insider/Motorola Partnership Study. Here are the 10 technologies most desired by solution providers. • CompTIA Aims for Inclusion at Breakaway • McAfee Sports MSP Status After MX Logic Buy • IT Distributor Ingram Micro Quarter Sales Down 25% • Intuit Evolves Beyond Packaged Software • Health Care Unprepared to Secure Digital Health Records • Microsoft CEO Surprised at Yahoo Deal Reception Storage Controllers Improve Performance Without Full System Upgrade LSI is offering a family of drop-in MegaRAID SATA+SAS controller cards that double transfer rates for data storage. The controller cards effectively enable VARs to help their customers do more with less by increasing performance while forgoing a full refresh. 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 >> Making the Most of Storage Demand In this Changing Channels podcast hosted by Mike Vizard, the senior vice president of marketing for Nexsan Technologies, Robert Woolery, talks about how solution providers can profit from rising demand for storage solutions even in these lean economic times. LISTEN NOW >> CompTIA Aims for Inclusion at Breakaway One of the more notable changes at this year's Breakaway conference is CompTIA's efforts to become a more inclusive organization. CompTIA has brought in more outside voices and content directed toward solution providers' business needs. READ MORE >> McAfee Sports MSP Status After MX Logic Buy MX Logic specializes in cloud-based e-mail and Web security, an area McAfee has shown interest in. Less than two weeks ago, on July 20, McAfee announced a major push into SAAS with the release of its Total Protection 5.0 service. READ MORE >> IT Distributor Ingram Micro Quarter Sales Down 25% Ingram Micro (NYSE:IM) CEO Greg Spierkel tells Channel Insider that the worst seems to be over, but that doesn't mean that a recovery is coming tomorrow. IT distributor Ingram Micro's second-quarter sales showed a 25 percent decline year over year, but sequentially sales fell just 2 percent -- a normal seasonal amount. READ MORE >> Intuit Evolves Beyond Packaged Software The personal finance software maker jumped on the software-as-a-service bandwagon with the Intuit Partner Network, a cloud-based platform that serves up its applications and those from third-party partners to small business customers. READ MORE >> Can Your Anti-Virus Handle the Latest Malware Tricks? Spyware, or its more correct term malware, is an ever-evolving beast of software development that today ties heavily into the desire for financial gain. Today, malware is big business, and with big business comes software sophistication. DOWNLOAD NOW >> Application Delivery for Dummies: Everything You Need to Know Ensuring acceptable application delivery will become even more difficult over the next few years. As a result, IT organizations need to ensure that the approach that they take to resolving the current application delivery challenges can scale to support the emerging challenges. DOWNLOAD NOW >>

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