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Public sector technology: New FY brings IT uncertainties

State government IT could run into shifting priorities with 36 governorships in play this fall, but areas such as cloud are expected to see public sector technology investment. Continue Reading
Cisco Intercloud: Benefits for cloud providers and their customers

Channel partners can get involved in Cisco Intercloud in a number of ways. Learn how to take advantage of Cisco Intercloud's unique benefits. Continue Reading
HP Helion cloud platform helps partners, customers enter cloud

So far, Helion has been generally well-received by HP partners and customers alike. According to partners, the platform reduces the risks for solution providers looking to make the move to cloud. Continue Reading
Third-party, open source AWS management tools offer unique benefits

Amazon boasts a broad range of tools for managing an EC2 instance, but partners say third-party and open source tools expand on Amazon's offerings. Continue Reading
Partners weigh in on Azure management tools

Partners give their take on a range of Azure management tools that are offered by Microsoft, third-party vendors and the open source community. Continue Reading

Channel roundup: Who's gone where?

What do Lenovo, NTT Security, Redstor and Red Box, to name a few, have in common? They have all recruited some fresh faces this ...

Rubrik emphasises competencies with global partner programme

Backup and data protection specialist launches first global partner programme with plans to reward those partners that gain ...

DaaS pointed to as a long term answer once Windows 10 refresh wears off

Canalys has provided insights into its expectations in the PC market next year and advised the channel to think beyond just ...

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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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Mirai botnet creators avoid jail time after helping the FBI

News roundup: The Mirai botnet creators will not serve time in prison after they worked with the FBI. Plus, the Department of ...

CrowdStrike responds to NSS Labs lawsuit over product testing

CrowdStrike and the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization responds the allegations made by NSS Labs in a bombshell ...

State Department data breach exposes employee info

A State Department data breach involving the agency's unclassified email system may have been due to a lack of multi-factor ...

SearchStorage

7 key questions IoT storage designers must answer

IT teams must thoroughly understand their IoT data, including how it's managed and secured, as well as where it's collected, ...

Scality Zenko goes GA for multi-cloud data management

Scality launches Zenko 1.0 multi-cloud data controller software, offering a commercially supported enterprise edition and a ...

HPE 3PAR StoreServ all-flash fixes hospital's image problems

Riverside Healthcare dedicates its all-flash 3PAR StoreServ array to revamp its PACS. New images are stored in HPE's onboard ...

SearchNetworking

Linksys enters cloud-managed Wi-Fi market

Belkin International's Linksys unit has launched a cloud-managed Wi-Fi system. Linksys is tapping MSPs for help in selling Cloud ...

Juniper bundles Contrail Networking, OpenStack for the edge

Juniper Networks has introduced the Contrail Edge Cloud. The platform for running service providers' network edge applications ...

Access networking layer ready for software-defined reboot

After years of stagnation, the access-layer network is in need of a makeover. Implementing software-defined configurations is ...

SearchCloudComputing

Compare IaC tools for hybrid, multi-cloud environments

Infrastructure-as-code tools come in two flavors: third-party and those native to a certain cloud provider. Keep these factors in...

Improve hybrid cloud monitoring through automation, alerts

To effectively monitor hybrid cloud infrastructure -- without being overloaded with data and alerts -- IT teams need to rethink ...

How Azure Cloud Shell can streamline resource management

Azure Cloud Shell's browser-based model frees IT teams from installation headaches but presents some formatting and timeout ...

SearchDataManagement

5 trends driving the big data evolution

The speedy evolution of big data technologies is connected to five trends, including practical applications of machine learning ...

Containers key for Hortonworks alliance on big data hybrid

Hortonworks is joining with Red Hat and IBM to work together on a hybrid big data architecture format that will run using ...

Big data tooling rolls with the changing seas of analytics

Hadoop data tooling is expanding. A view holds that Hadoop is moving from alternate data warehousing to a full-fledged big data ...

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Self-service analytics tools hand BI power to business users

Self-service BI software opens the door to wider analytics uses in organizations. This handbook compares top self-service tools ...

Tableau vs. Power BI vs. Qlik: How the BI rivals stack up

Tableau, Power BI and Qlik Sense offer similar self-service BI functionality, consultant Rick Sherman says. But he points to some...

Tibco analytics capabilities get upgrade in Spotfire X

New Tibco AI and natural language processing functions in the soon-to-be-released Spotfire X look to create a simpler and faster ...