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Symantec increases dominance of security software sector

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Market posts positive numbers for 2011 but "western Europe remains the laggard"

26 Apr 2012

IntY unveils cloud buying group

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Cascade platform designed to help resellers win mid-market business

27 Mar 2012

IntY revamps Office 365 programme in partner push

IntY plans on being Microsoft missing link

Symantec: Grace period rejig will promote prompt renewals

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Changes to support renewal policies could cut customers' grace periods from 90 to 30 days in two weeks' time

16 Mar 2012

Analyst bears glad tidings for security channel

Network security market growth will accelerate from three to eight per cent in 2012, according to Infonetics

09 Mar 2012

Under-threat pcAnywhere users told to switch off

Vulnerabilities arise after 2006 hack and customers told to wait for software updates

26 Jan 2012

Canalys points channel towards anti-virus growth

Anti-virus market will grow 6.8 per cent in 2012, while vendors will increasingly sell direct through their web shops, analyst predicts

21 Dec 2011

Symantec “playing dangerous game” with direct sales move

End users can buy higher volume of licenses from Symantec than any of its peers, Canalys finds

16 Dec 2011

PC Tools chases Mom & Pop stores

Symantec’s value brand appoints Entatech to lead independent retail assault

15 Nov 2011

Huawei Symantec signs exclusive deal with Stone

System builder picked as joint venture's sole partner for UK education space

06 Oct 2011

Image Analyser snares Websense as OEM

Image filtering vendor gets one over on old rival ICA

20 Sep 2011

Symantec readies partners for programme changeover

Cognitive Network Solutions unveiled as one of Symantec's first 'Master' partners as November deadline looms

05 Jul 2011

Symantec lures partners to Dragons' Den

Vendor offers its small business partners a pop at winning a one-to-one session with James Caan

09 Jun 2011

Following the crowd: meet the channel tweeters

ChannelWeb has compiled a list of the industry's top tweeters (so far)

25 May 2011

Symantec splashes the cash on Clearwell

Security giant stumps up $390m for e-discovery vendor

20 May 2011

Bluesource becomes Master of Symantec realm

London security specialist among the first to sign up as vendor's new wave of services partners

13 Apr 2011

Microsoft Forefront lags behind rivals

Is the new Microsoft security portfolio an opportunity the channel must not miss in 2011?

11 Apr 2011

Cohort retains access to Symantec sub-set

Distributor remains on board for encryption technology, despite recent cull

23 Mar 2011

Symantec slashes UK VAD ranks

Only Avnet and Codework (now Altimate) remain following conclusion of 10-week review process

21 Mar 2011

FAST takes piracy fight to the North East

Anti-piracy body plots new software misuse education campaign

10 Mar 2011

Symantec extends security VAD beauty pageant

Six UK finalists asked to give more detailed information on their plans

01 Mar 2011

Spanish suitor seduces Google and Symantec partners

Email security newbie Spamina lures UK channel with retained margins of 30 per cent

27 Jan 2011

Cohort sews on Symantec training badge

VAD becomes an authorised education delivery partner for the security giant's PGP business

14 Jan 2011

Ex-BitDefender execs resurface in channel

Former sales director Simon Geach joins Symantec as technical manager John Hughes shows up at distributor Securedis

13 Jan 2011

Symantec to cut UK security VAD line-up

Vendor expected to slash UK security VAD line-up to three at most, as part of pan-European rationalisation process

10 Jan 2011

BT Engage IT gets flexible with Symantec

VAR takes advantage of Symantec's pay-as-you go service for its customers

12 Nov 2010

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