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By: Frank Ohlhorst dnu Netgear is looking to bring enterprise-level security to small businesses and branch offices with the ProSecure UTM (Unified Threat Management) 5, an all-in-one gateway security appliance that is chock full of security features. Netgear claims the UTM 5 can secure a small network from most any Internet-borne threat by aggressively scanning […]

Searching for a document in the workplace usually involves sifting through multiple pages of search results, which wastes time and money. And because enterprise users are searching for specific information-not just the most popular answer-they expect more precise search results than they would get from the Internet. Simply put, the techniques that work well on […]

By: eChannelLine IronKey, a secure flash drive vendor, has signed a distribution agreement with Synnex to expand its reach into the channel. Synnex is the second distributor IronKey has signed with in the North American market — the first being D&H Distributing. According to Stewart Fox, vice president of sales at IronKey, the agreement with […]

By: eChannelLine CA has created a program intended to woo customers of Sun Microsystems and Oracle to migrate to CA’s Identity and Access Management (IAM) products.“CA SPF 100” would allow Sun’s and Oracle’s customers to trade their product licenses for equivalent licenses of CA Identity Manager, CA Role & Compliance Manager or CA SiteMinder — […]

By: John Dodge The MiFi 2200 “mobile hot spot” from Verizon is a nifty device. To summarize, MiFi is mobile broadband in the back end and Wi-Fi out the front, giving up to five users/devices access to the Internet from anywhere. Here’s how it works. The user simply switches on the MiFi to establish the […]

By: John Dodge The advantages of connecting to the Internet from virtually anywhere are obvious. So it was with great enthusiasm that I put the new HP Mini 1000 Model 1151NR netbook bundled with Verizon mobile broadband service through its paces. The Verizon service works reasonably well, but it is clearly a newer technology in […]

By: eChannelLine Sage North America appointed two of its executives to new posts within the company while forging a new Business Solutions Division. The news was made public at the company’s annual Insights partner conference, held this year in Nashville, Tenn. The Business Solutions Division is the end result of combining Sage’s Business Management and […]

By: eChannelLine Westcon Group is looking to help its customers take advantage of the opportunities presented by the Federal Stimulus Package with the launch of a new program, which includes vertical-specific Web sites stocked with information, tools and resources. The New Start America program was developed after a series of Webinars Westcon held in April […]

By: Eric Zuspan Eric Zuspan, senior system administrator, SAN/Unix, at MultiCare Health System, is responsible for systems in four data centers and 500TB of data supporting 10,000 employees. He ensures that patients and employees have continuous access to patient files, appointment schedules and life-saving medical information. He’s also tasked with ensuring that the data is […]

By: John Dodge When I first started testing netbooks, I thought they were not really a substitute for full notebooks. However, after four weeks of using three of them, I’m not so sure. Netbooks let me do everything I need to do-e-mail, Twitter, word processing, Web surfing and blogging/content management. And I’ve adapted to the […]