Asset Lifecycle Management Is All About Green

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on July 9, 2015, 9:13 pm EDT

Every year vendors come out with new devices – smartphones, tablets, PCs – with the intent of getting customers to decommission older versions. The problem is these old devices are bad for the environment and could expose data. This is a green environmental and green moneymaking opportunity for solution providers.

Watch out for these 3 firewall failures

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on July 1, 2015, 10:14 am EDT

It may look like an unassuming box in the server room, but your firewall is your gatekeeper, your first line of defense, shielding you from the bad stuff on the outside world of the Internet. When firewalls first came into use, it simply meant blocking certain kinds of traffic. Today’s “next-generation firewalls” need to do a whole lot more.

New Converged Data Protection Appliances for Managed Service Providers

Submitted by Tracy Staniland on June 16, 2015, 10:53 am EDT

If you are looking to add cloud backup services to your portfolio or looking to optimize your infrastructure costs for your existing service, the new Asigra Converged Data Protection Appliances for Manager Service Providers are an economical engineered solution that will enable you to accelerate monthly recurring revenue.

Someone’s snooping on your email – here’s what you can do about it

Submitted by John Zorabedian on June 15, 2015, 2:35 pm EDT

When email was invented over 40 years ago, no one thought about how to ensure the integrity or privacy of messages.

Carousel VP: IT Integration Key To Success In Video Services Market

Submitted by Sarah Kuranda on May 6, 2015, 12:18 pm EDT

There's an emerging opportunity around videoconferencing technologies, but in order to take advantage, solution providers will have to take a step back and focus on the IT integrations and services, Carousel Industries Vice President of Video Services Bill Thompson said.

What The Security Industry Can Learn From The Halo Video Games

Submitted by Sarah Kuranda on April 30, 2015, 1:16 pm EDT

The security industry could learn a lot from the Halo video games, Art Gilliland, senior vice president and general manager of HP enterprise security products and self-professed avid Halo player, said in a keynote at the 2015 RSA Conference in San Francisco.

Mobile Malvertising on the Rise

Submitted by Craig Campbell on April 30, 2015, 12:18 pm EDT

As the tech market trends show, the use of mobile devices continues to grow, and so do the mobile security threats. And since mobile devices are always on and carried from home, to work, on the weekend outing, to the annual or monthly shopping spree and everywhere else, they’ve become a prime target for ‘malvertising’.

Masergy CEO: How NFV Will Win The Enterprise

Submitted by Mark Haranas on April 23, 2015, 1:58 pm EDT

Masergy Communications CEO Chris MacFarland

Network Function Virtualization and Software-Defined Networking capabilities are redefining the network landscape as we know it today, says Chris MacFarland, CEO of the managed networking and cloud provider Masergy Communications.

Seven Things To Know About The Managed Services Market

Submitted by Michael Novinson on April 21, 2015, 2:00 pm EDT

Security And Reliability, Not Price, Predict MSP Success

Managed service providers (MSPs) have become increasingly focused on managing endpoints, growing their practices and getting into cloud backup and recovery.

Q&A: Telecom Market In 'Unprecedented' Period of Change

Submitted by Mark Haranas on April 17, 2015, 4:07 pm EDT

The telecommunications market is in an unprecedented period of change and upheaval, says Clayton LiaBraaten, SVP of sales, delivery and business development for the global telecom company Transaction Network Services (TNS) Telecommunications Services Division.

LiaBraaten has decades of telecom experience under his belt, but now sees an unfamiliar marketplace due to factors like LTE, Internet of Things, net neutrality and massive consolidations.

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