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

Print channel has a strong sustainability pitch

Long-standing recycling schemes and print management designed to reduce paper wastage are just some of the efforts the industry ...

Data Privacy Day a chance for resellers to stress trust

The channel could take advantage of a day when data privacy comes under the spotlight

Channel roundup: Who's gone where?

Who has moved into a fresh job in the past seven days? We highlight some of those making moves in the industry in the past week

SearchSecurity

Protecting against data security threats

As data security threats evolve, knowing how to protect your data is more important than ever. Learn about the latest security ...

How does antimalware software work and what are the detection types?

Virus detection techniques used by antimalware tools can be a huge boost to enterprise cybersecurity programs. Learn how ...

Citrix patches vulnerability as ransomware attacks emerge

Citrix rolls out more patches ahead of schedule for CVE-2019-19781, a directory traversal vulnerability that affects Citrix ADC, ...

SearchStorage

Investments in data storage vendors topped $2B in 2019

Six data storage vendors closed six-figure funding rounds in 2019. Backup, data protection and newer flash technologies generated...

Q&A: SwiftStack object storage zones in on AI, ML, analytics

Q&A: SwiftStack's founder and president Joe Arnold says disk-based object storage can deliver the concurrency and throughput that...

HDD vs. SSD storage in the age of flash

HDDs continue to play a key role in the data center, even as SSD capacities increase and prices fall. See how HDDs and SSDs stack...

SearchNetworking

Cisco Cyber Vision targets industrial IoT security

Cisco Cyber Vision is the networking company's latest product for industrial IoT security. The technology is based on software ...

3 ways SD-WAN can improve WAN performance

Learn how software-defined WAN technology can improve WAN performance and help branch offices deal with an increasing amount of ...

Build a source of truth into your network automation strategy

Many network automation approaches rely on a source of truth repository to provide data on network behavior. But building this ...

SearchCloudComputing

Learn best practices for cloud automation on Microsoft Azure

Check out these best practices for workload automation on Microsoft Azure. Review the tools and techniques that can free your IT ...

A look at AWS antipatterns: What not to do in the cloud

In this Q&A, Clive Harber, co-author of "Implementing Cloud Design Patterns for AWS," breaks down why traditional enterprises ...

5 cloud database comparison tips to guide your data strategy

Catch up on these tips that compare the strengths, weakness and available integrations of popular public cloud database and ...

SearchDataManagement

Hitachi Vantara acquires data catalog vendor Waterline Data

With the acquisition of Waterline Data, Hitachi Vantara is bringing new data catalog capabilities that will expand the Lumada ...

New Confluent Platform release boosts event streaming quality

Based on the open-source Kafka event streaming platform, the Confluent Platform 5.4 update adds new capabilities to help meet ...

Where InfluxDB time series database is going

Users need more than SQL for querying databases, according to Paul Dix, co-founder and CTO of InfluxData. That's why the vendor ...

SearchBusinessAnalytics

Sigma analytics platform's interface simplifies queries

Featuring a spreadsheet interface designed to make queries simple for citizen data scientists, Sigma Computing is trying to make ...

How to compare and choose augmented analytics tools

Choosing an augmented BI and analytics vendor can be difficult when their offerings are so similar. Analysts at Gartner and ...

ThoughtSpot IPO could be coming after vendor adds first CFO

Hiring of a CFO for the first time signals that ThoughtSpot may be positioning itself for an IPO and comes six months after what ...