Channel Marker

December 2017

IT channel partners: A look ahead at 2018
John Moore - Senior Site Editor 22 Dec 2017

Here's a look at the most popular Channel Marker blog posts of 2017 and what they might say about 2018 trends for IT channel partners.

Digital transformation business: Procurement ripe for revitalization
John Moore - Senior Site Editor 08 Dec 2017

As the digital transformation business moves into back-office operations, systems such as procurement may be among the candidates for renewal.

MicroscopeUK

Canalys warns 2020 unlikely to match last year in the PC market

The analyst house has cast its eye over the state of the PC market and given the reasons why the months ahead might prove to be ...

Increasing security shift and platform approach benefiting Kaseya

Firm lifts the lid on how 2019 fared and details of its growth and increasing customer numbers

Skills crisis threatens to derail customer growth ambitions

Getting hold of talent is top of the list of concerns for UK tech leaders and is causing many of them to cast doubts over the ...

SearchSecurity

McAfee CEO Chris Young steps down, Peter Leav to take over

Chris Young has stepped down as McAfee CEO, and Peter Leav is taking his place. Young led the company's spin-out from Intel in ...

Unpatched Citrix vulnerability expands as mitigations fall short

Citrix discovered another product affected by last month's vulnerability, while security researchers found an attacker blocking ...

Put application security testing at the top of your do-now list

It's time to take a new attitude toward application security. Learn what must be tested and the specific steps that will take ...

SearchStorage

Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage seeks to simplify Ceph

Red Hat delayed a major OpenShift Container Storage update to work on simplifying Ceph storage and management; 4.2 update also ...

NVMe-oF performance monitoring best practices that work

Don't let your storage network infrastructure get in the way of delivering NVMe-oF's low-latency benefits. See how these best ...

Quantum F-Series line expands with entry-level NVMe flash

New Quantum F-Series model is aimed at media customers who need NVMe in a smaller footprint. F-1000 server scales to 77 TB of ...

SearchNetworking

5G vs. Wi-Fi: Verizon says cellular will win

In the not-too-distant future, businesses could find themselves weighing 5G vs. Wi-Fi in the campus and office. Verizon has ...

Gartner WAN edge Magic Quadrant offers buying advice

How should businesses buy WAN edge technology? You probably shouldn't rely on vendor name recognition alone. Instead, consider ...

Future of networking technology relies on 5G, edge computing

In this roundup of networking blogs, experts discuss the key trends they look forward to in 2020 and how these advancements could...

SearchCloudComputing

Google Cloud support premium tier woos enterprise customers

Google Cloud has rolled out a new Premium Support offering aimed at deep-pocketed enterprises with larger, more complex ...

Confidential computing promises secure cloud apps

Adopt confidential computing to protect sensitive data in the cloud. Learn the basics about these technologies and evaluate ...

A comprehensive Azure instance comparison for your workloads

When it comes to choosing the best Azure compute instance for your workload, the options can be overwhelming. Use these tips to ...

SearchDataManagement

MariaDB X4 brings smart transactions to open source database

Open source database vendor MariaDB updates its flagship platform with new features to enable the convergence of transactional ...

How data lineage tools boost data governance policies

Organizations can bolster data governance efforts by tracking the lineage of data in their systems. Get advice on how to do so ...

Proactive practices for data quality improvement

Instead of waiting for data quality to become an issue, consider a proactive approach. Here are some ways to improve data quality...

SearchBusinessAnalytics

Storytelling using data makes information easy to digest

In a Q&A, Nate Nichols and Anna Schena Walsh of AI-based analytics vendor Narrative Science talk about how data storytelling can ...

Data-driven storytelling makes data accessible

In a Q&A, Nate Nichols and Anna Schena Walsh of data storytelling vendor Narrative Science discuss their book on storytelling and...

Startup Uplevel targets software engineering efficiency

Startup vendor Uplevel emerged from stealth on Wednesday touting a platform aimed at improving the efficiency of software ...