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OEM (original equipment manufacturer)

OEM, or original equipment manufacturer, is a broad term that describes a web of relationships among IT hardware vendors, hardware component makers, software vendors and channel partners such as resellers and distributors.

Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN)

Oracle PartnerNetwork, also known as OPN, is a channel partner program that provides resources and benefits for value-added resellers, independent software vendors and other businesses that want to collaborate with Oracle.

F5 on the hunt for DevOps channel specialists

Security player is keen to make sure it has the resellers signed up to support its recent acquisitions

DataSolutions to step up reseller training and recruitment in UK

Irish firm DataSolutions looks to increase growth in the UK and build on the foothold it has already established in Surrey

SonicWall enhances MSSP proposition

Security player continues to develop the support it can provide to the growing managed security services provider community

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Researchers beat fingerprint authentication with 3D printing scheme

New research by Cisco Talos shows popular fingerprint scanning technology can be defeated by lifting actual fingerprints and ...

Skill building is key to furthering gender diversity in tech

Gender disparities imperil the threat intelligence community. Shannon Lietz, leader and director of DevSecOps at Intuit, ...

AI pen testing promises, delivers both speed and accuracy

AI is making many essential cybersecurity tasks more effective and efficient. AI-enabled penetration testing, or BAS, ...

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Make remote SAN management work in the age of coronavirus

SANs usually aren't configured to allow remote management. Find out what storage admins can do during the COVID-19 crisis to ...

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 ...

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Fluidmesh-Cisco deal fills gap in Cisco IIoT

The recently announced Fluidmesh-Cisco deal would fill a gap in Cisco's industrial IoT portfolio. It would provide onboard Wi-Fi ...

How to manage the surge in remote video internet traffic

As more people work from home and create more internet traffic, enterprise network managers should adjust bandwidth levels and ...

Supporting remote workers in your pandemic response plan

To support employees working from home, network teams should carefully monitor VPN traffic, review firewall rules and rely on ...

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Evaluate on-premises vs. cloud computing pros and cons

Let's take a look at on-premises vs. cloud computing models and evaluate the benefits and drawbacks of each option.

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 ...

AWS security options grow with Amazon Detective

AWS has released Amazon Detective, a managed threat hunting service that generates visualizations out of log data from native ...

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Okera sees increasing demand for enterprise data governance

Data governance and access vendor raises $14 million as incoming CEO Nick Halsey sees a continuing need for enterprise data ...

PlanetScale extends multi-cloud database as a service

Open source-based PlanetScaleDB adds support for Microsoft Azure, enabling a multi-cloud database as a service platform that ...

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...

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Economic downturn shows businesses true value of analytics

Business intelligence is proving to be a critical tool for enterprises as they attempt to survive during the sudden economic ...

Key differences of a data scientist vs. data engineer

Data scientists and data engineers often work together, and sometimes the positions are treated as the same. Read on to find out ...

Importance of analytics clear amid COVID-19 crisis

With health organizations and business leaders alike trying to minimize the effects of COVID-19, analytics is playing a critical ...