April 2009

April 03, 2009 03 Apr'09
Conficker damage minimized; Ubuntu fights for data center cred

Headlines: Conficker contained; Ubuntu still pushing for data center share; other IT channel news. Continue Reading
April 03, 2009 03 Apr'09
Sun and IBM deal called off

News Roundup: Sun and IBM can't reach agreement; Google Android OS could give Microsoft a run for their money; Intel Nehalem chips aren't tempting enough; other systems news. Continue Reading
April 02, 2009 02 Apr'09
Google Android OS on netbooks: An intriguing proposition

Hewlett-Packard and Dell are considering the Android OS for their netbooks, giving Google instant credibility over Microsoft Windows. Continue Reading

April 02, 2009 02 Apr'09
Cloud security group planned; RIM launches apps store

Headlines: Cloud Security Alliance forms; RIM launches BlackBerry apps store; other IT channel news. Continue Reading
April 02, 2009 02 Apr'09
New directions for storage networking

With new storage networking protocols – Data Center Ethernet, FcoE and FCoIB -- on the horizon, plus new devices to take advantage of them, truly agile networks are within reach. Find out what your data center will look like in the future. Continue Reading
April 01, 2009 01 Apr'09
Avaya and Siemens vying for Nortel's enterprise networking business?

Rumors are swirling that this could be the week Nortel sells off its enterprise networks business. Also in the roundup: Cisco and Avaya beef up their UC portfolios. Continue Reading
April 01, 2009 01 Apr'09
Dell launches PS6000 iSCSI SANs; slow-restore claims on Quantum VTL

Headlines: Dell adds SSD support and claims hardware redesign will improve its EqualLogic IP SAN systems; Quantum's deduplicating VTL customers say their systems are slow to recover after power loss. Continue Reading
April 01, 2009 01 Apr'09
Google gains netbook momentum; Win 2008 parsed for small biz

Headlines: Microsoft faces Android rival on netbooks, downsizes Windows 2008 for SMBs; other IT channel news. Continue Reading
April 01, 2009 01 Apr'09
Stimulus bill money fuels solid projects for Cisco partners

Attendees at a Cisco partner roundtable report that stimulus bill funding is sparking new projects. Continue Reading

AI Cops Walk the Thin Line Between Fin Tech and Fiend Tech

Steps are being taken to ensure that AI and machine learning do not damage consumers finds Nick Booth

Veeam: Pushing the services opportunity

In an on-going series of Q&A's with channel executives the questions this time were put to Greg Bailey, director channel and ...

Dell EMC launches Enterprise Preferred Channel Programme

Dell EMC take collaborative approach to channel enterprise sales with new programme

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Azure licensing eliminates pillar of public cloud from its platform

Changes to Azure licensing mean customers who want pay-as-you-go pricing will have to make upfront commitments to get it, as ...

HPE Helion cloud brokerage supplants its defunct public cloud

With its public cloud soon a thing of the past, the HPE cloud strategy around hybrid management continues to take shape with ...

Docker containers slide into production with Tutum deal

Docker has acquired container management provider Tutum to help transition its much talked about technology from an intriguing, ...

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Lessons learned from Meltdown and Spectre disclosure process

During a Black Hat 2018 session, Google, Microsoft and Red Hat offered a behind-the-scenes look at the disclosure and response ...

10 unified access management questions for OneLogin CSO Justin Calmus

Enterprise security veteran Justin Calmus, who describes himself as an avid hacker, joined OneLogin as the CSO earlier this year....

2018 Pwnie Awards cast light and shade on infosec winners

The Meltdown and Spectre research teams won big at the Pwnie Awards this year at Black Hat, while the late-entry Bitfi Wallet ...

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New Seagate Nytro SSD line uses Toshiba 3D NAND chips

Seagate shows off its first triple-level cell, 64-layer 3D NAND Nytro SSDs since investing in Toshiba NAND. Analysts wonder if ...

Products of the Year judging criteria

This article discusses how products are judged for the Storage Products of the Year awards.

NAND flash shortage end could lead to dramatic price drop

Impending NAND flash oversupply will lead to price collapse of NAND flash chips and higher capacity enterprise SSDs, according to...

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Mist Systems gives VMware NSX SD-WAN a boost

Arista Networks and VMware are focusing on Wi-Fi to bolster products for the wireless LAN. Wi-Fi vendor Mist is strengthening ...

ITSM automation helps advance network automation

IT service management helps close the gap between IT staff and business needs, as AI and machine learning work with ITSM ...

Juniper boosting performance of SRX5000 firewall for IoT, 5G

Juniper Networks has released an acceleration card for its SRX5000 line of firewalls. The SPC3 card readies the product for IoT, ...

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Map application dependencies to prepare for cloud migration

The practices a development team puts in place to manage dependencies before a move to the cloud will determine how smoothly apps...

Evaluate speech-to-text services from AWS, Microsoft and Google

AWS, Microsoft and Google dictation services can infuse cloud applications with helpful speech-to-text capabilities. Here's an ...

Nvidia GPU Cloud marries data science and containers

With its GPU Cloud, Nvidia offers a way to deploy data science workloads that span on-premises systems and the public cloud -- ...

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GDPR checklist items data managers might have overlooked

Now that the General Data Protection Regulation has been implemented, it's a good time for organizations to make sure they ...

Confluent Platform 5.0 aims to mainstream Kafka streaming

Confluent Platform updates seek to bring data streaming with Apache Kafka to a wider audience. A new GUI and user-defined ...

Cloud vs. legacy ERP systems: Tug of war intensifies for SMBs

Aging legacy ERP systems at SMBs seem to be getting plenty of scrutiny these days. Heightened consumer demands, shifting ...

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Talking Data: AI advances and the MIT Startup Exchange

The Talking Data podcast team discusses some of the MIT startups that are making advances in AI and natural language processing.

Tableau BI gets Extensions API in version 2018.2 update

Tableau's BI software sees general release of a 2018.2 update with an API for dashboard extensions, while a 2018.3 beta adds more...

BigQuery ML moves machine learning into Google BigQuery

Google is enabling BigQuery users to build SQL-based machine learning models inside the cloud data warehouse via a BigQuery ML ...