Editor's Notebook
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Tis the Season … For Cyber Crime
11/25/2009
By Gennifer Biggs, security, storage, and managed services editor
While the rest of us are recovering from too much Thanksgiving turkey and stuffing, and the stress of Black Friday shopping, cyber criminals will spend this weekend preparing for Cyber Monday, that online shopping frenzy that marks the start of the online holiday shopping season. -
Google Wave Announcement Drives Cyber Attacks
10/14/2009
Cyber criminals are wasting no time taking advantage of last week's buzz about the beta release of Google Wave -- online tool for real-time communication and collaboration.
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Back To School Online Safety Tips
8/31/2009
By Gennifer Biggs, security, storage, and managed services editor
As I talked with security vendor AppRiver about an upcoming story, they mentioned some online shopping safety tips that you can easily pass along to your customers as a value-add. We all know how popular online shopping is, and the back to school rush is on. -
SaaS: Webinar
8/11/2009
This month's Business Solutions' Lunch & Learn Webinar Series will tackle the issue of SaaS: "How VARs and MSPs Can Make Money Using SaaS." Join us on Thursday, Aug. 20, 1 to 2 p.m. ET, for this free webinar that will address the burgeoning popularity of Software as a Service (SaaS), including what is...
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Acquisition Watch
7/30/2009
It has been an interesting week in the world of network security as two large security vendors take action to expand their portfolios. On Tuesday, GFI rolled out GFI MAX, its rebranding of newly acquired managed services platform vendor HoundDog. That move provides a solid security backbone for former HoundDog...
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Could GFI Acquisition Turn HoundDog Into The Big Dog?
7/28/2009
Doug Wilson, former CEO of HoundDog, paused for a moment as he introduced himself as “from GFI MAX” during our call last week about the impending announcement that GFI Software was acquiring HoundDog, a managed services remote monitoring and management platform vendor. But Wilson, now GM of GFI MAX, the...
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Improve Your Web Presence With Flip Video
7/27/2009
In the past I’ve written about the importance of creating valuable content for your website that does more than just list the products you carry and service you can perform. In many cases, creating such web content (e.g. case studies) takes only a little time and effort. Recently, I came across a cheap way to...
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AppRiver Analysts Track Spam Attack
7/23/2009
AppRiver pinged me a few minutes ago about a big spam campaign being tracked today, with spammers focused on free file storage, and generating attacks at the rate of 1 million per hour. (That's about 277 attacks per second, thanks to AppRiver for doing that math, by the way.) AppRiver Security Analyst Troy Gill...
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Market Overview Shows Break/Fix Filling the Gap For Some VARs
7/20/2009
If you like the facts and statistics found behind the scenes in any industry, check this out: OnForce has just released its OnForce Services Marketplace Index (OSMI). Based on more than 70,000 service events this quarter across North America, the OSMI provides a comprehensive overview of key spending trends in IT and..
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Did You Miss Our Time Management Webinar?
7/17/2009
If you didn't have a chance to watch the first Business Solutions Lunch & Learn webinar yesterday, don't fret. Instead, download an archive version of this one-hour presentation on time management, featuring Business Solutions President Jim Roddy, Editor Gennifer Biggs, and special guest Jim Estill, time...
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