Channel Marker

December 2016

IoT business opportunity in 2017: Are channel partners ready?
Spencer Smith - Site Editor 16 Dec 2016

As channel partners mull over business moves for the upcoming year, many executives may consider IoT as a potential play -- and for good reason. "There is so much demand for IoT within SMBs [small ...

Microsoft offers free Azure training
John Moore - Senior Site Editor 07 Dec 2016

Microsoft is offering free Azure training as it seeks to ready more partners to work in the cloud.

MicroscopeUK

MicroScope: Seeking sustainability

In this issue, we look at sustainability in the channel, with customers increasingly wanting to know that their reseller has a ...

Tech Data has a taste for Apple

Company’s recent results got Billy MacInnes wondering about the importance of the relationship between the distributor and its ...

Coronavirus: HP increases partner support

Vendor reacts to the ongoing pandemic with moves designed to make life easier for partners and their customers

SearchSecurity

Risk & Repeat: Zoom security comes under fire

This week's Risk & Repeat podcast looks at several security issues Zoom faced over the last week, which led to questions about ...

Zoom zero-day vulnerabilities patched a day after disclosure

An ex-NSA hacker reported two zero-day vulnerabilities on his blog Wednesday. One of them can give an attacker control of a ...

Beazley: Ransomware attacks on clients 'skyrocketed' in 2019

The 2020 Beazley Breach Briefing reported a 131% increase in reported attacks against clients last year, and the insurance giant ...

SearchStorage

Choose between NAND vs. NOR flash memory

When comparing NAND flash memory to NOR, it's important to examine the structural differences to understand which type of ...

The future of flash memory promises unprecedented speed, capacity

NAND flash's future involves more layers and bits per cell. At the same time, NVMe-oF, storage class memory and other new ...

Komprise stretches NAS migration tool for multi-cloud use

Komprise's Elastic Data Migration moves beyond NAS-to-NAS migration over LANs to enable customers to shift file and object data ...

SearchNetworking

CloudGenix-Palo Alto buy combines SD-WAN with cloud security

The CloudGenix-Palo Alto Networks acquisition will combine the Prisma cloud security suite with CloudGenix's software-defined WAN.

A deep dive into the differences between 5G and Wi-Fi 6

While the latest cellular and Wi-Fi technology generations -- 5G and Wi-Fi 6, respectively -- have been pitted against one ...

Maintaining network infrastructure in a pandemic and beyond

Network infrastructure that supports remote workers is essential today and will be far into the future. That includes VPN ...

SearchCloudComputing

5 tips that can lead to Azure cloud management success

Many factors go into managing Azure resources, and they vary based on a company's needs. Explore five pieces to the larger cloud ...

Explore the pros and cons of cloud computing

Familiarize yourself with the basics of computing in the cloud, how the market has changed over the years, and the advantages and...

How to protect and manage Azure Pipelines secrets with Key Vault

Follow along with this Azure Key Vault tutorial to securely manage passwords and other sensitive information in an Azure DevOps ...

SearchDataManagement

Oracle NoSQL database comes to the cloud

Another Oracle database is coming to the cloud with the general availability of Oracle NoSQL Database Cloud Service as the demand...

MariaDB SkySQL enables cloud-native database as a service

MariaDB brings back an old name for its cloud-native database-as-a-service platform. MariaDB CEO Michael Howard details how he's ...

DataStax making Cassandra easier with Kubernetes Operators

New Kubernetes tool for the Apache Cassandra database is DataStax's attempt to create a broadly adopted approach for cloud native...

SearchBusinessAnalytics

Should your company hire a freelance data scientist?

Enterprises need to make the right hiring choices when it comes to supporting their data projects. Here are some reasons your ...

KNIME analytics platform adds tool to aid model deployment

Integrated Deployment, a new tool from KNIME aimed at bridging the gap between data model development and deployment, was ...

Many employees still resist data-driven culture

While most employees see the benefits of data to drive decision-making, many still resist analytics, according to a report from ...