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Spear phishers sharpen skills, craft incredible attacks, say experts
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Paper War? Xerox, HP Face Off in Print
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Helping partners float into the public cloud
Tenzing is teaming with OpSource on a new public cloud offering that will bring new international opportunities to cloud resellers
Microsoft, SAP team to ease cloud deployments
The two companies will bridge Microsoft .Net and Azure with SAP’s NetWeaver Gateway
HP signs deal to acquire Printelligent
Hewlett-Packard eyes increased service to small and mid-sized businesses after the deal goes through
Will cloud computing make traditional vendor relationships obsolete?
Shifting compute processes to the cloud can help companies save money and become more flexible
Online backup vendor targets the small enterprise market
Company announces new partner program and administrative console to support its channel
Start-up acquires five Quebec area solution providers
IDS Canada forms a partnership with equity provider Presidio to gain a foothold in the MPS market
N-able releases next generation N-central 8.0 solution
New remote monitoring and management solution has a completely new look and feel
Iron Mountain going back to roots in storage services
Company changes direction, considers selling off digital business
Kaseya expands its IT Automation platform for service providers
The two new modules are Service Billing 1.0 and Service Desk 1.3
Key SaaS software executive leaving SAP
John Wookey, formerly of Oracle, is departing the company after three years
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