We’ve seen a decisive shift in the role of the CIO in the last few years. Instead of being charged with just the IT infrastructure of their organizations, CIOs are now being looked upon to contribute towards business growth. As a result, many organizations today are increasing the value they place on IT, as opposed to a few years ago when most viewed its role as a supporter and enabler of predefined business initiatives.

Founded by Erich Hahn, the former CTO on Netscape in 2002, Proofpoint provides unified email security and data loss prevention solutions for enterprises, universities, government organizations and ISPs to defend against inbound threats such as spam and viruses, prevent leaks of confidential and private information across all protocols, encrypt sensitive emails and analyze messaging infrastructures.

Despite its merger with EMC in September 2006, making it the security division of the data and storage goliath, RSA Security’s business vision, channel focus and drive remains as strong as ever.

Microsoft Dynamics, a line of integrated, adaptable business management solutions that automate and streamline financial, customer relationship and supply chain processes, has enjoyed good growth momentum in Asia over the last year. To date, the company has approximately 7,500 mid-market Dynamics CRM and ERP customers in Asia (including Greater China & Japan) and Microsoft Dynamics currently operates in 12 countries.

Over the next few months, Channel Enablers will be taking you through 7 key performance areas when using the Channel as part of your Go-To-Market strategy. These 7 areas make-up Channel Enablers’ ChannelPro™ methodology, the basis of our strategy to drive greater productivity and effectiveness from channel partners.

SophosLabs’ have warned workers of the dangers of connecting with people they don’t know via the business networking website LinkedIn. Sophos’ warning comes following the discovery that advanced fee fraud scammers are using the site to try and find potential victims.

According to IDC’s Asia Pacific (excluding Japan – APEJ) Enterprise ICT Outsourcing and Managed Services Forecast, the market is expected to exceed US$29.5 billion in 2008, an 11% increase over 2007.