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Hot Spot Tutorials explore popular technologies and projects that value-added resellers and service providers should be offering their clients. Learn about a technology, why it’s important, how the competitive landscape is developing, how to sell it (benefits and uses), pros and cons to a vendor’s product set, and more.

Unified threat management: The next-generation network firewall (SearchSecurityChannel.com)
Standalone network firewalls are becoming a thing of the past as vendors increasingly combine them with additional security technologies in unified threat management (UTM) appliances. These integrated products often include antivirus, intrusion detection and prevention, and content filtering technologies in addition to traffic management capabilities. But users must trade best-of-breed functionality in many of these areas for simplified management and potential cost savings. This tutorial will help you become an expert on UTM implementation, device management, vendors and products, and selling tactics for UTM appliances and solutions.
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Mobile device management services
Laptops, PDAs, smart phones, iPods, USB drives … the list of mobile devices accessing today's business networks goes on and on. While these tools may enhance user productivity, they create more work for IT departments tasked with managing them. Solution providers who understand the implications of mobile devices and offer customized solutions for their management can find business opportunities as a result. This Hot Spot Tutorial provides value-added resellers (VARs) and consultants with the information they need to help customers take back control of their networks and the mobile devices connecting to them.
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Network upgrades for high-availability applications
While high-availability applications like voice and email can improve user productivity, they demand more from the network they run on in terms of reliability and performance. Unfortunately, the health of the network is often an afterthought for many businesses. That's where you come in as your client's trusted advisor. In this Hot Spot Tutorial, learn how to upgrade your client's network to support the applications they need most.
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VoIP Implementation Services
VoIP implementations offer organizations an inexpensive and feature-rich alternative to traditional communications systems. This Hot Spot Tutorial offers channel professionals best practices for delivering VoIP services to small, medium and enterprise businesses. Value-added resellers (VARs), networking consultants and systems integrators (SIs) will also learn how to sell VoIP and build their business around VoIP services.
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Wireless LAN Installation Services
The latest Wi-Fi standard, 802.11n, presents new business opportunities to network consultants and integrators as businesses large and small look to benefit from the standard's improved reach and reliability. Explore this Hot Spot Tutorial to learn how other technological advances have made it a good time to begin offering wireless LAN installation services and how to implement wireless LANs that your clients can depend on for secure and convenient network connectivity.
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