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• Alternative Antivirus Vendors • Starting Your VAR Business: The Best Tax Structure • HP TouchPad Strategy: What HP Needs to Win • The Small Business Espionage Threat • Dumping Product Sales for Managed Services • Google Changes Pricing for Google Apps • Amazon Web Services Outage Sparks Debate About the Cloud • How SMBs Benefit From Virtualized DR • Windows 7 Still Playing Catch Up to Windows XP How RIM Can Improve Its Tablet Cred RIM's PlayBook tablet has hit the market, and while sales are reportedly strong, RIM's got a long way to go to even get close to Apple's market lead. Here's a look at what RIM needs to do to gain some credibility in the tablet market. READ MORE >>   Alternative Antivirus Vendors Sure, big security vendors like Symantec and McAfee may have name recognition and huge channel programs to back their product. But as with any large vendor, those benefits come with baggage--bureaucracy, a lack of differentiation from hundreds of other channel partners and sometimes lower margins. Here's a look at some alternatives to those big guys. READ MORE >> Starting Your VAR Business: The Best Tax Structure Many VAR and reseller businesses start with an individual providing IT services to clients and getting paid and cashing a check. But just how that individual cashes the check will determine how much of the money he gets to keep come April 15. Here's a look at the best tax structures for VAR businesses. READ MORE >> Sponsored by i365 Free Whitepaper--Cloud-Connected Backup and Recovery Delivers a Command Performance. Are You Ready to Offer Next-Generation Backup and Recovery to Your Customers? Then it's time to get cloud-connected. Read more and how you can participate quickly and easily with a proven solution designed for VARs and service providers. Learn more ADVERTISEMENT HP TouchPad Strategy: What HP Needs to Win HP's entry into the ultra-hot tablet market is the TouchPad. TouchPad is generating a lot of interest among channel partners, but to truly make the device a success, HP must use the many tools at its disposal to stake a claim for the tablet market. Here's how. READ MORE >> The Small Business Espionage Threat Think your small business customers are too small to be of interest to international spies looking to steal trade secrets and intellectual property? Think again. Corporate espionage is a real threat. Here's how you can help. READ MORE >> Dumping Product Sales for Managed Services Only about 10 percent of the channel that says it does managed services actually are full-fledged managed services providers. The rest are just dipping their toes in. That's according to Jim Hare, now vice president of sales for eGestalt who says MSPs should stop selling products. READ MORE >> How to Get Started with Cloud Computing View this panel discussion with IBM cloud computing leaders on how enterprises can get started with cloud computing -- reviewing which workloads make sense to move first and the right type of cloud for workloads. DOWNLOAD NOW >> Oracle Databases on VMware vSphere 4: A Guide This document will also show that the same best practices, tuning tips and tricks, and skill sets necessary to deploy Oracle databases in physical environments can be leveraged when deploying Oracle databases in virtual environments. DOWNLOAD NOW >>

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