Newsletter | January 4, 2012

01.04.12 -- Avoid A Storage Market Catastrophe; 10 Ways To Future Proof Your Data Center

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10 Ways For Your Data Center To Be Business-Wise, Future-Driven
By APC by Schneider Electric
Today, enterprises no longer can afford to view their facility and traditional IT spaces — from small server rooms to large IT rooms — as discrete environments. Since the systems of both environments can affect a data center's performance, availability, energy efficiency, and agility, facilities and IT now need to be regarded as interconnected domains. This bridged approach ultimately has a far-reaching impact on a company's ability to respond to strategic business decisions or future technology changes.
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Why Service-Level Management Is Critical For All IT Service Providers
By Len DiCostanzo, senior VP, Dean of Autotask Academy, Autotask Corporation
At the heart of almost every business relationship are expectations — expectations that have to be set, managed, and met or exceeded. When it comes to IT services, your clients' expectations are going to revolve around the specific services you are delivering and the promises or claims that you make related to them.
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Active Virus Control - Proactive Protection Against New And Emerging Threats
By Bitdefender, LLC
With new and variant strains of malware emerging at an unprecedented rate, heuristic malware detection has become an increasingly critical line of defense against threats for many organizations.
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Avoid A Storage Market Catastrophe
By Jay McCall, networking and managed services editor
Todd O'Bert is no stranger to facing terrible economic conditions. He started Productive Corp.; a security, storage, and network infrastructure software reseller business; in 2001, less than a year after the dot-com bubble burst.
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News

D&H's 2012 Channel Investments Include No-Cost Marketing Services, Regional Workshops, New Events, And Ongoing Credit Increases

D&H Distributing, a computer products and consumer electronics distributor, is making significant investments in its channel offerings for 2012.
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HP UPS Network Module Remotely Manages UPSs And Attached Devices

HP introduced the HP UPS Network Module, which enables small, medium, and enterprise-sized businesses to remotely monitor, diagnose, and manage uninterruptible power systems (UPS) and attached devices.
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SonicWALL Offers Scalable Secure Remote Access Solution And Addresses Issues Brought On By Consumerization Of IT

The proliferation of powerful smartphones and tablets poses a new problem for IT: providing secure remote access to network resources for a growing number of employees who use their own mobile devices for business purposes.
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Seagate Completes Acquisition Of Samsung's Hard Disk Drive Business

Seagate Technology plc, a provider of hard disk drives and storage solutions, recently announced the closing of the transaction to acquire the hard disk drive (HDD) business of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a provider of digital consumer electronics and information technology.
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Panasonic Introduces Two Laser-Class 'Fit Anywhere' Multifunction Printers

Panasonic System Networks Company of America recently introduced the KX-MB1500 series of value-priced A4-format Multifunction Printers (MFPs).
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