For decades, cybercrime has been the stuff of Hollywood thrillers and pulp fiction novels. But the days when cybercrime was tantamount to a gaggle of teen-age hackers creating viruses in their parents' basements have long since died. Now, the FBI reports that, for the first time ever, revenues from cybercrime have exceeded drug trafficking as the most lucrative illegal global business, estimated at reaping in more than $1 trillion annually in illegal profits.
[08:00 AM, October 13, 2008]
I'm often asked if I'm happy as a Microsoft Certified Partner. Microsoft wants to know, other partners want to know—even my friends want to know, too. I can understand Microsoft and other partners wanting to know, but my friends? So I've given this quite a bit of thought, and even asked a few people who I thought should really be disinterested. And the responses I've gotten are all pretty consistent.
[12:00 AM, October 13, 2008]
When small businesses outgrow their single tape drive and their plug-and-play SOHO NAS appliance but are not yet ready for enterprise-class storage, they are turning to NAS, iSCSI-based SAN or a combination of both, according to solution providers.
[12:00 AM, October 13, 2008]
During an economic downturn, vendors can reduce their operating costs by relying more on partners instead of direct-sales efforts.
[12:00 AM, October 13, 2008]
Tough beginnings taught Acuity how to persevere for the long haul.
[05:00 PM, September 26, 2008]
At EMC's Executive Briefing Center, company executives gave a peek into some of its areas of expertise, such as how it is combating hackers and how it is making its mark in the SOHO storage business.
[04:32 PM, September 26, 2008]
The public sector is waking up to virtualization. That's the view from solution providers active in the government market.
[06:00 PM, September 23, 2008]
The deal will give the networker an expanded lineup of security offerings for small and medium businesses.
[07:50 PM, September 22, 2008]
The great blackout of 2003--when a large expanse of the Northeast lost power for the better part of an afternoon and brought cities like New York to a standstill--surely raised everyone's understanding of the stakes involved in keeping a power backup plan in place, right?
[12:00 AM, September 22, 2008]
When Sheri and Eli Gurock opened the first branch of Magic Beans in Brookline, Mass., in 2004, they had modest hopes for their store: an outlet for high-end toys and baby gear targeted at modern parents willing to spend a bit more for the good stuff.
[12:00 AM, September 22, 2008]
It was a summer of high gas prices, the ongoing mortgage crisis and a seemingly nonstop run of thunderstorms and other weather woes. But economic woes and violent storms didn't slow summer small business sales for VARs.
[06:00 PM, September 19, 2008]
After a straw poll of CIOs at the Midsize Enterprise Summit in Grapevine, Texas, indicated many companies planned to skip implementing Vista, Everything Channel asked 13 end users their plans regarding Microsoft's latest OS. The results were not good for Microsoft.
[05:36 PM, September 16, 2008]