IT Channel News

• Week of 17 Jun 2013 CCIE Voice killed, revived as CCIE Collaboration (SearchUnifiedCommunications.com | 19 Jun 2013)

  The CCIE Voice certification has been retired, with CCIE Collaboration taking its place, advancing IT expertise to include real-time UC capabilities.

• Battery monitoring service prevents outages, extends life (19 Jun 2013)

  The latest backup battery monitoring services can prevent outages and extend battery life. Plus, they take power monitoring off IT's task list.

• New Java patch to meet old Java patching sluggishness? (SearchSecurity.com | 18 Jun 2013)

  Oracle has issued a new security patch for Java, but only 7% deployed the patch before it.

• Marble Security's mobile security service bolsters MDM (SearchNetworking.com | 18 Jun 2013)

  Marble Security released its new cloud-based mobile security service that can work with MDM tools for protection of employee-owned mobile devices.

• Building large spines with Ethernet ToRs from Mellanox (SearchNetworking.com | 18 Jun 2013)

  A new Layer 3-based Virtual Modular Switch feature on top-of-rack Ethernet switches from Mellanox enables large clusters for leaf-spine architecture.

• Zetta improves DataProtect with WAN optimization (SearchDataBackup.com | 18 Jun 2013)

  Zetta adds WAN optimization to its DataProtect enterprise cloud backup and disaster recovery software.

• Choice of EHR vendors gone awry: Many rip and replace (SearchHealthIT.com | 18 Jun 2013)

  Nearly one-third of healthcare facilities are choosing a new EHR vendor only four years into the HITECH Act.

• Evaluating enterprise mobile, cloud and social tools (SearchConsumerization.com | 18 Jun 2013)

  IT departments need to evaluate vendors for social tools, such as mobile and cloud. Without a secure plan, IT risks an unsecure liability.

• Red Hat, Savvis bet on PaaS (SearchCloudComputing.com | 18 Jun 2013)

  PaaS made headlines last week, but it's still difficult to gauge the true level of interest in Platform as a Service in the enterprise world.

• It's time to rebrand enterprise IT expertise (SearchCIO.com | 17 Jun 2013)

  As businesses go digital, technology expertise is needed more than ever. The question is how to do that in a way that doesn't alienate the business.

• Vendors crack the code on heading off future EHR regs (SearchHealthIT.com | 17 Jun 2013)

  Vendors may stave off stricter EHR regulations with the development of two new vendor codes of conduct.

• Microsoft exec talks Windows 8.1 updates, security (SearchEnterpriseDesktop.com | 17 Jun 2013)

  Microsoft's Erwin Visser discusses Windows 8.1 features, how IT can keep pace with faster update cycles and Windows security enhancements.

• Mark Enzweiler on Red Hat partner account segmentation, channel conflict (17 Jun 2013)

  Mark Enzweiler, Red Hat partner chief, discusses the challenges the company faces with its partner community as it grows its product base.

• Week of 10 Jun 2013 Microsoft finally delivers Office for iOS -- sort of (SearchConsumerization.com | 14 Jun 2013)

  Microsoft released Office Mobile for iPhone but it requires an Office 365 subscription and isn't made for iPad.

• U.S. defense agencies' use of cloud aids intelligence (SearchCloudComputing.com | 14 Jun 2013)

  A cloud migration seems daunting but the effort is worthwhile; U.S. defense agencies say their cloud move led to better military intelligence.

• Red Hat Summit 2013: Open source trends and insights (SearchCloudApplications.com | 14 Jun 2013)

  Here's a roundup of expert comments on open source trends, cloud computing, innovation and more from the 2013 Red Hat Summit in Boston.

• Data centers consider Red Hat Open Hybrid Cloud (SearchDataCenter.com | 14 Jun 2013)

  Hardware, virtualization, public and private cloud are all converging and need to be managed as one environment. Enter Red Hat's Open Hybrid Cloud.

• Red Hat Summit 2013: Company pushes 'open innovation' as future of IT (13 Jun 2013)

  At Red Hat Summit, the company gives a July target date for its OpenStack distribution and OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure; and more news.

• Telerik updates Windows 8 app dev tools (SearchEnterpriseDesktop.com | 14 Jun 2013)

  Telerik's updated DevCraft tool for developing Windows 8 apps helps IT to deliver business apps to end users on PCs and tablets.

• Mainframe modernization takes on urgency (SearchDataCenter.com | 14 Jun 2013)

  A Red Hat Summit talk on database and mainframe modernization highlights urgency, need for agility in enterprise development teams.

• Data privacy and the 'economy of queasy trust' (SearchCIO.com | 14 Jun 2013)

  This week, we ponder data privacy issues including privacy expectations, Google's ironic stance on 'big data' and more.

• Avnet rolls out an analytics channel package based on HP Vertica (14 Jun 2013)

  Avnet rolls out an analytics channel package based on HP Vertica that's designed to help partners speed the buildout of their analytics practices.

• BYOD management requires device-agnostic networking (SearchNetworking.com | 14 Jun 2013)

  Enterprises need device and operating-system-agnostic BYOD management. Ruckus offers device-agnostic networking software for enterprise WLANs.

• NSA surveillance leads to tighter privacy policies (SearchConsumerization.com | 14 Jun 2013)

  Knowledge of the National Security Agency's surveillance has led some companies to revamp their data privacy policies.

• Imation upgrades Assureon archive platform from Nexsan (SearchStorage.com | 13 Jun 2013)

  Imation makes first product upgrade since acquiring Nexsan, delivering Assureon 7 for object-based storage archiving.

• Salesforce and ExactTarget: What to expect now (SearchCRM.com | 13 Jun 2013)

  Salesforce's acquisition of digital marketing software firm ExactTarget is virtually a done deal. Find out what customers can expect for the future.

• Making the switch from VMware to RHEV (SearchServerVirtualization.com | 13 Jun 2013)

  Some IT departments have turned to low-cost, flexible virtualization platforms, such as Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, to lower VMware costs.

• Dell storage users find platform integration enticing (SearchStorage.com | 13 Jun 2013)

  Customers want to see the storage products Dell has gained through acquisitions better integrated with common management.

• Startup offers a software bridge for video conferencing (SearchUnifiedCommunications.com | 13 Jun 2013)

  Pexip Infinity is a subscription-based, virtualized video conferencing bridge from the founders of Tandberg.

• Gartner: Mobile device security future is a mixed bag (SearchSecurity.com | 13 Jun 2013)

  A Gartner analyst says enterprise BYOD -- specifically iOS and Android devices -- presents many pros and cons for enterprise endpoint security.

• Open source vs. proprietary cloud provider platforms (SearchCloudProvider.com | 13 Jun 2013)

  The choice between an open source or proprietary cloud platform plagues cloud providers, as open source platforms mature and end-user needs evolve.

• Cisco's context-aware security strategy with pxGrid (SearchNetworking.com | 13 Jun 2013)

  Cisco introduces pxGrid, a new framework for sharing contextual information between security technologies, beginning with Cisco ISE.

• Simple tricks to lower your AWS cloud costs (SearchCloudComputing.com | 12 Jun 2013)

  There are a number of ways to lower AWS costs and improve the Amazon cloud experience. Here are a few cost-cutting tips any AWS cloud shop can use.

• New HP cloud platforms come with training wheels (SearchCloudComputing.com | 12 Jun 2013)

  New HP cloud products include an OpenStack-based Cloud OS and a number of platforms designed for rookie cloud users.

• Is a marketplace for IaaS actually feasible? (SearchCloudComputing.com | 12 Jun 2013)

  A proposed marketplace for IaaS left some IT pros wondering about its practicality and just how one would achieve alignment from vendors.

• Sales reps' strong-arming is simply silly (SearchOracle.com | 12 Jun 2013)

  A software vendor trolls a toll collection agency, and other ridiculous stories in the world of software license compliance.

• Better app management and security due in iOS 7 (SearchConsumerization.com | 12 Jun 2013)

  Apple hints iOS 7 will have many features that are friendly to the enterprise, including tools for better iOS management and new security features.

• IT channel news from Avnet, Ingram Micro, Tech Data, HP (12 Jun 2013)

  Channel news: Avnet to acquire Seamless Technologies, Ingram Micro opens Artizen availability, Tech Data partners with Visage, plus news from HP.

• VMTurbo takes its talents to the storage level (SearchVirtualStorage.com | 11 Jun 2013)

  VMTurbo is expanding its workload resource management capabilities for virtualized environments to the storage level -- as long as the storage is from NetApp.

• Mullen: Cyberattacks an 'existential threat' to U.S. (SearchSecurity.com | 11 Jun 2013)

  Adm. Mike Mullen criticized U.S. politicians for a lack of leadership on vital cybersecurity issues and called the NSA PRISM leak a 'huge breach.'

• Pharma company sings praises of its public cloud migration (SearchCloudComputing.com | 11 Jun 2013)

  AMAG Pharmaceuticals eliminated its data center in 2008 for public cloud, and now enjoys the ability to hire and fire cloud vendors at will.

• HP turns StoreOnce into virtual storage appliance (SearchDataBackup.com | 11 Jun 2013)

  Hewlett-Packard delivers virtual software appliance version of its StoreOnce deduplication technology and a scalable midrange tape library.

• HP recommits to PCs in mobility era (SearchEnterpriseDesktop.com | 11 Jun 2013)

  IT pros are encouraged by Hewlett Packard's new support services plan for PCs, but would like to see mobile devices from the company.

• Channel needs to keep eye on data center costs (MicroScope.co.uk | 10 Jun 2013)

  The lack of transparency around the real costs of running data centers could be a real risk for those channel players that are developing offerings on a one-size-fits-all approach.

• Dell launches imaging, printing program (MicroScope.co.uk | 11 Jun 2013)

  Dell has added a new channel program around imaging and printing to its rapidly expanding PartnerDirect ecosystem, offering renewed support for partners selling its mono, color and multifunction...

• Can Dell survive in the cloud era? (ComputerWeekly.com | 10 Jun 2013)

  Dell has ditched the public cloud IaaS offerings it built on the OpenStack platform and on VMware's vCloud suite, in favor of converged infrastructure, private cloud and a cloud partner program.

• Larger HIPAA penalties push renewed compliance efforts (SearchSecurity.com | 11 Jun 2013)

  More frequent audits and larger penalties for violating HIPAA are motivating enterprises to tame HIPAA compliance challenges, Gartner analysts say.

• Cloud talent search: How Rackspace finds cloud engineers (SearchCloudProvider.com | 11 Jun 2013)

  To overcome a shortage, Rackspace builds cloud computing talent at its Open Cloud Academy boot camp in San Antonio.

• IBM BlueMix a daunting combo of DevOps and IaaS (SearchCloudComputing.com | 11 Jun 2013)

  IBM touts a grand vision for unifying DevOps with automated IaaS, but the concept is still in early beta and the market is nowhere near ready for it.

• Cisco revs lead generation program to drive $1B in deals to partners (10 Jun 2013)

  Cisco plans to drive $1 billion in midmarket lead value to partners in fiscal 2014. Find out how the company is generating the additional leads.

• F5 enables NVGRE gateway, Windows Azure cloud support (SearchSDN.com | 10 Jun 2013)

  F5 Networks added NVGRE gateway support for network virtualization and virtual BIG-IP availability in Microsoft's Azure cloud.

• Data value chain puts focus on keys to business success (SearchContentManagement.com | 10 Jun 2013)

  In his career running data management systems for consumer goods companies, Richard Beaver has found a formula for success: the data value chain.

• IndependenceIT's Cloud Workspace bringing DaaS to MSPs, VARs (10 Jun 2013)

  MSPs and VARs have a new DaaS platform to consider: independenceIT's Cloud Workspace, which enables virtualization of desktops and 250 applications.

• Dell says vWorkspace isn't for the enterprise (SearchVirtualDesktop.com | 10 Jun 2013)

  Quest customers no longer have to worry about vWorkspace support ending, but Dell says it's not for enterprise-level environments.

• Week of 03 Jun 2013 IT disties Avnet, Ingram Micro, Tech Data unveil new partner resources (03 Jun 2013)

  Disties Avnet, Ingram Micro and Tech Data all made announcements today, two involving IBM and the third an education agreement with CompTIA.

• Mobile workforce report highlights channel opportunity (MicroScope.co.uk | 07 Jun 2013)

  iPass has published its 14th quarterly Mobile Workforce Report showing that mobile workers are using connectivity to be more productive over longer hours, with over half of workers worldwide working...

• Cisco Partner Summit 2013: Execs call on partners to transition to 'hybrid IT' model (04 Jun 2013)

  At Cisco Partner Summit 2013, Chambers, Klein and Peres drill into midmarket opportunities, the cloud and the vision of a new partner business model.

• Week of 06 May 2013 TechSelect Day 2: Tech Data talks up mobility, cloud, data center (06 May 2013)

  Tech Data's president of the Americas, Murray Wright, sketched out how the company is evolving, with attention on mobility and cloud enablement.

• Week of 01 Apr 2013 Cisco partner marketing organization gets new chief (01 Apr 2013)

  Sherri Liebo takes over as Cisco partner marketing chief, stepping into a setting in which partners are clamoring for more demand generation support.

• Week of 11 Mar 2013 Ingram Micro signs on as Cisco HCS collaboration cloud provider (12 Mar 2013)

  Ingram Micro has become a Cisco HCS cloud provider, to deliver collaboration services to customers of select Cisco partners.

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