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• July 14, 2015 14 Jul'15

  Micron broadens flash storage with M51ODC SSD launch

  The M510DC SATA drives are aimed at service providers that use flash to handle workloads with heavy read volume, infrequent writes.

• July 14, 2015 14 Jul'15

  Extreme Wi-Fi appliances support more access points

  Extreme Networks introduces Wi-Fi appliances that can manage considerably more access points than previous versions.

• July 14, 2015 14 Jul'15

  Arcserve Cloud provides DRaaS for SMBs, MSPs

  Arcserve moves into crowded disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) market with Arcserve Cloud, an appliance connected to the vendor's cloud.

• July 13, 2015 13 Jul'15

  Data storage online: Tugboat firm E.N. Bisso partners with Venyu cloud

  E.N. Bisso has migrated most of its IT assets to cloud partner Venyu's environment, a transition that includes running NAS in the cloud.

• July 13, 2015 13 Jul'15

  Microsoft partner conference pivots on mobile, cloud

  Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference focused on the ongoing transition of its channel allies to the Redmond Company's mobile and cloud offerings.

• July 13, 2015 13 Jul'15

  Microsoft thanks partners and looks for more transformation

  Microsoft has kicked off WPC outlining its ambitions and revealing that partners are responsible for helping it turn those dreams into revenue.

• July 13, 2015 13 Jul'15

  Adobe to patch two more Flash flaws exposed by Hacking Team hack

  Adobe plans to release security updates this week for two more Adobe Flash vulnerabilities exposed when hackers published documents belonging to Italy's controversial Hacking Team.

• July 13, 2015 13 Jul'15

  New X-IO CEO: We'll build a car with ISE as the engine

  New X-IO CEO Bill Miller talks about adding features to ISE storage, taking the company public and sticking around longer than his predecessors.

• July 10, 2015 10 Jul'15

  Intel Security partner program enters 'phase two' of enhancements

  Intel Security has updated several features of its partner program in phase two of its enhancement plan. Also this week, AWS unveiled a new partner program and services; SGI and Dell formed an alliance; and more.

• July 10, 2015 10 Jul'15

  Splunk acquires behavioral analytics firm Caspida in $190m deal

  Splunk's acquisition of Caspida is aimed at extending its security analytics leadership by adding behavioral analytics to improve detection of insider threats.

• July 10, 2015 10 Jul'15

  Mirantis finds OpenStack success where others failed

  Mirantis, which bills itself as the "pure play" OpenStack vendor, is rounding out its portfolio of services with turnkey appliances.

• July 10, 2015 10 Jul'15

  IT hopes Citrix doesn't rock the boat

  Citrix's business model is shifting, as the company moves into new technology areas. And some IT pros worry about what that means for certain products.

• July 10, 2015 10 Jul'15

  Take a tactical approach to AWS cost management

  Getting stakeholders to help manage AWS costs shouldn't be like herding cats. Create a cost-conscious culture and follow these steps to control cloud costs.

• July 10, 2015 10 Jul'15

  No iOS yet in AWS Device Farm release

  Mobile app developers can turn to AWS Device Farm for testing on physical devices, but only on Android and Fire OS.

• July 10, 2015 10 Jul'15

  Nearly 22 million records stolen in OPM breach

  Investigators for the OPM data breach find that 21.5 million personal records were stolen in the attack, including 1.1 million fingerprints. The White House is still considering its response.

• July 10, 2015 10 Jul'15

  DHS head wants federal breach reporting law

  The Homeland Security head wants federal laws requiring data breach reporting and information sharing, but one expert warns that government officials need better understanding of infosec technology before creating such laws.

• July 09, 2015 09 Jul'15

  Cisco worldwide channel chief Bruce Klein to depart company

  Bruce Klein, Cisco's global channel chief, will leave his post to pursue new opportunities outside the networking company.

• July 09, 2015 09 Jul'15

  AWS adds Chef to cloud Marketplace to drive up DevOps adoption

  Chef sets sights on winning over more AWS users with its DevOps-friendly automation tools.

• July 09, 2015 09 Jul'15

  HP split gives enterprises cost-saving opportunities

  HP is scheduled to split into two new companies this fall, opening the door for IT shops to renegotiate contracts.

• July 09, 2015 09 Jul'15

  Panasas tunes up ActiveStor

  Panasas enhances its hybrid NAS system with 8 TB hard drives, more SSD capacity and cache. It also boasts 200 gigabit per second throughput.

• July 09, 2015 09 Jul'15

  New AWS tools ease app development

  Amazon launched a number of services that make it easier to develop cloud apps in AWS, including Amazon API Gateway, but some warn not to get in too deep.

• July 09, 2015 09 Jul'15

  Indian government exposes passwords via cloud service

  Researchers at Elastica recently discovered an Indian government agency had its employees' email addresses and passwords exposed through Google Drive.

• July 08, 2015 08 Jul'15

  Fujitsu soups up Eternus for multi-petabyte workloads

  Eternus phases out its DX8700 S2 model and replaces it with two block storage devices that scale from 4.6 TB to 13.8 TB of raw capacity.

• July 08, 2015 08 Jul'15

  Mystery hacker group stealing corporate secrets

  A mysterious hacker group has hit a number of major U.S. companies with the intent of committing industrial espionage, according to new security research reports.

• July 08, 2015 08 Jul'15

  Flash zero-day from Hacking Team breach gets patched

  Adobe patches a Flash zero-day vulnerability found as part of the massive data breach of Hacking Team. Experts recommend speedy remediation as the flaw has been added to multiple exploit kits.

• July 08, 2015 08 Jul'15

  How high-density data centers affect VDI deployments

  High-density data centers try to do less with more: They have a smaller footprint at a reduced cost with more compute power. The question is how this affects VDI.

• July 08, 2015 08 Jul'15

  Microsoft confirms 7,800 jobs to go worldwide

  Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella confirms fresh round of job cuts as software giant moves to overhaul its mobile portfolio.

• July 08, 2015 08 Jul'15

  Dell UC tools check ROI of Cisco, Microsoft UC

  Dell's latest version of Unified Communications Command Suite has UC tools for comparing Cisco UC Manager and Microsoft Skype for Business.

• July 08, 2015 08 Jul'15

  Azure price hike: it's not about the Benjamins

  Currency fluctuations are behind an Azure price hike from Microsoft, but it's more of a blip in the market than a larger trend.

• July 08, 2015 08 Jul'15

  EMC sells Syncplicity business unit

  EMC pulls out of the enterprise file sharing market with the sale of its Syncplicity business to Skyview three years after acquiring the startup.

• July 08, 2015 08 Jul'15

  Cisco helps resellers by acquiring maintenance agreements tracker

  Cisco plans to acquire maintenance agreements tracker MaintenanceNet. The $139 million deal is expected to help resellers.

• July 07, 2015 07 Jul'15

  Bluewolf and the art of the partnership

  Born-in-the-cloud companies are a new breed of channel partner gaining stature, and customers, as consultancy and implementation leaders in the burgeoning era of cloud computing. Bluewolf ...

• July 07, 2015 07 Jul'15

  Dashlane bullish about the future despite LastPass Hack

  Password management firm Dashlane is confident its business model will evolve and continue to be relevant even if passwords eventually disappear.

• July 07, 2015 07 Jul'15

  ActivTrak can nab workers wasting time on social media

  Web monitoring software can block use of Facebook and HBO at work, but also raises privacy concerns.

• July 07, 2015 07 Jul'15

  Veritas makes NetBackup 7.7 more cloud friendly

  Veritas adds cloud backup features to NetBackup 7.7, streamlines and re-brands Storage Foundation and launches new information management apps.

• July 07, 2015 07 Jul'15

  Avoid storage problems in Exchange 2013

  Properly sizing an Exchange 2013 deployment protects it from future performance issues resulting from storage bottlenecks.

• July 07, 2015 07 Jul'15

  OpenSSL patch coming Thursday

  The OpenSSL project team will release a critical patch on Thursday and experts warn admins that the upgrade process could take days or weeks to complete.

• July 07, 2015 07 Jul'15

  The ups and downs of Red Hat Satellite 6 transition

  Red Hat users are in the midst of transitioning to Satellite 6 and have found some potholes -- and some big plusses -- in the move from version 5.

• July 06, 2015 06 Jul'15

  Xerox managed print services target SMB channel

  Xerox has expanded its managed print service portfolio, offering SMB channel partners new assessment tools, an MPS API and workflow technology.

• July 06, 2015 06 Jul'15

  Hacking Team responds to massive data breach

  Controversial Italian surveillance software firm Hacking Team was attacked, resulting in a 400GB leak of sensitive data. The response from the Hacking Team was threatening, but may have been part of the attack.

• July 06, 2015 06 Jul'15

  Mobile payment systems on the rise: Who is liable for fraud?

  Infosec professionals worry that mobile payment systems will increase the risk of data breaches, but experts argue their fears are overblown.

• July 02, 2015 02 Jul'15

  Quick Heal Technologies uses Quick Rewards to build out its channel

  Quick Heal introduced Quick Rewards, a referral program to help grow partnerships in North America. Also this week, Netgear revamped its channel program; SolidFire unveiled new partner specializations; and more.

• July 02, 2015 02 Jul'15

  Tablets replace need for multiple devices in the enterprise

  Far from being a companion device, tablet computers are increasingly being deployed as the only device for certain groups of users.

• July 02, 2015 02 Jul'15

  HP files Form 10, reveals possible channel setbacks

  HP has taken a significant step towards a split, by filing to make HP Enterprise an independent company.

• July 02, 2015 02 Jul'15

  AWS outage concerns hit enterprise

  AWS outages are fewer and less frequent, but the cause of an outage this week has IT pros feeling apprehensive.

• July 01, 2015 01 Jul'15

  CipherCloud and CSA lead calls for cloud security open APIs

  The pair have teamed up to create a working group that will guide the industry on how to make the cloud more secure, but in an open way.

• July 01, 2015 01 Jul'15

  Rights group ACLU opposes extended NSA phone surveillance

  The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) will argue the Freedom Act does not authorize the National Security Agency (NSA) to collect phone data in bulk.

• July 01, 2015 01 Jul'15

  No support means just that for Windows Server 2003 users

  Vendors, resellers and analysts are all warning that after 14 July those users still on Windows Server 2003 will be in a lonely place.

• July 01, 2015 01 Jul'15

  Cisco to use OpenDNS to spot IoT threats

  Cisco plans to acquire OpenDNS and use its security-as-a-service products to reduce the number of IoT threats customers face.

• June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15

  HP update: Breaking up is hard to do

  Edging closer to the historic split of Hewlett-Packard into two formidable companies -- HP Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise -- a couple of top executives are on their way out. Today, HP ...

• June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15

  Cloud credits: the pennies from heaven for startups

  Public cloud credits are becoming table stakes in the world of startups, where vendors continue to fish for the next big thing to fill their balance sheets.

• June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15

  Cloud computing demands new IT mindset

  While there's a long list of technical tasks involved in a cloud migration, one of an organization's biggest hurdles to the cloud is its culture.

• June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15

  Stolen passwords from government agencies leaked

  A report reveals that many stolen US government agency passwords traveled across the Web, including credentials from OPM, which was recently breached due to stolen passwords.

• June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15

  Mobile security still not at the finish line

  Mobile security has come a long way, but organizations still have to address many sizable gaps.

• June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15

  AWS condenses TLS with s2n

  A slimmed-down, Amazon-created version of the Transport Layer Security standard has been open sourced. Will it head off future cloud reboots?

• June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15

  Cisco boosts cloud security presence with OpenDNS deal

  Cisco added another major piece to its growing security portfolio with an agreement to acquire cloud security provider OpenDNS.

• June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15

  DDN plans hyper-converged system for late 2015

  DataDirect Networks announces plans for a hyper-converged system that can scale to petabytes, along with capacity improvements for its WOS platform.

• June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15

  Condusiv adds analytical engine to boost performance

  Condusiv adds an analytical engine to its V-locity software that boosts I/O performance in Microsoft environments.

• June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15

  Red Hat shows off next year's roadmap for Ceph, Gluster

  Red Hat's roadmap for Ceph and Gluster products include a unified management console, support for containers and protocol/interface expansion.

• June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15

  NexGen ioControl plugs into vSphere 6, supports VVOLs, NVMe

  NexGen Storage integrates vStorage APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA) to help VMware customers prepare for VVOL adoption.

• June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15

  Ellison says Oracle cloud services suite is now complete

  The addition of more than two dozen cloud computing services will allow users to move everything in their data centers to the Oracle cloud, according to CTO Larry Ellison.

• June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15

  Why support for cloud identity standards is growing

  Open standards around identity and authentication are gaining popularity. So what -- and who -- is driving the movement?

• June 29, 2015 29 Jun'15

  New Signature: Partnering its way to stardom

  For the second consecutive year, 13-year-old New Signature, which is based in Washington, D.C., has been named the Microsoft United States Partner of the Year. Last year, the Microsoft-centric ...

• June 29, 2015 29 Jun'15

  Oracle, Red Hat join the MBaaS fray

  Oracle and Red Hat have both introduced mobile backend services to gain new customers for their other cloud services.

• June 29, 2015 29 Jun'15

  Informatica lifts lid on cloud data worries

  Just putting data into the cloud and forgetting about it is not an option for users concerned they do not have a handle on the risks facing their information.

• June 29, 2015 29 Jun'15

  Cisco launches IoT System for enterprise and smart cities

  Cisco unveils 15 products to address the growing complexity of Internet of Things deployments.

• June 29, 2015 29 Jun'15

  Docker container adoption emulates that of VMs

  Storage admins may find the container concept familiar, even if the terminology seems new; in some ways it's similar to using VMs.

• June 29, 2015 29 Jun'15

  Red Hat encourages ARM server exploration

  RHEL on ARM servers has developers envisioning new apps, but the hardware and software ecosystem for 64-bit ARM is still just a vision.

• June 26, 2015 26 Jun'15

  Hadoop upgrades boost SAP HANA IoT capabilities

  SAP HANA’s new Service Pack 10 release is geared to big data, remote synching across the enterprise.

• June 26, 2015 26 Jun'15

  Nadella getting ready to make some 'tough choices' at Microsoft

  Microsoft boss Satya Nadella has emailed staff to warn them that it faces some tough choices as it goes after growth.

• June 26, 2015 26 Jun'15

  Business urged to patch Cisco SSH vulnerability

  The presence of a default authorized SSH key could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to connect to the affected system with the privileges of the root user, Cisco warns.

• June 26, 2015 26 Jun'15

  AWS thinks outside the box for container-based cloud

  Docker and other container options are gaining popularity. And AWS is diving into the technology, possibly with an eye on native containerization.

• June 26, 2015 26 Jun'15

  Red Hat customers want new price model for Ceph storage

  Red Hat plans changes to subscription pricing model for Ceph software based on customer feedback, according to the director of product management.

• June 26, 2015 26 Jun'15

  RubyGems client vulnerable to DNS redirection

  RubyGems software packaging client was found to have a DNS vulnerability that redirects users to malicious gem servers.

• June 25, 2015 25 Jun'15

  Blackberry sales decline, but software and services on the rise

  Times remain hard for the beleaguered phone-maker, but traction in software and services suggest there is still a future.

• June 25, 2015 25 Jun'15

  RHEV roadmap reveals new features and challenges

  Red Hat is adding features to its virtualization software to stay competitive, but is also worried about staying relevant as the industry moves to embrace cloud and containers.

• June 25, 2015 25 Jun'15

  OPM breach could affect millions more than initial estimates

  The OPM director told a Senate hearing that passwords stolen from a contractor led to the OPM breach. Now, her job is on the line and the number of breached records could be on the rise.

• June 25, 2015 25 Jun'15

  Basic apps outweigh business-critical for mobile users

  These days, plenty of desktop apps have a mobile equivalent or can be converted. But mobilizing business-critical apps may be futile.

• June 25, 2015 25 Jun'15

  Box, IBM team up for apps, analytics

  With new agreement, Box's EFSS technology will be part of IBM's products, and Box will benefit from IBM's analytics and enterprise acumen.

• June 25, 2015 25 Jun'15

  Red Hat cloud strategy continues open source legacy

  The Red Hat cloud strategy is building on popular open source technologies OpenStack and Docker for its IaaS and PaaS offerings.

• June 25, 2015 25 Jun'15

  Red Hat storage gets new versions of Ceph, Gluster

  Red Hat storage boosts performance and scalability with a new version of Ceph and adds erasure coding and automatic tiering with an update to Gluster.

• June 24, 2015 24 Jun'15

  Juniper, Ruckus partner against Cisco, HP in enterprise Wi-Fi

  Juniper Networks has partnered with Ruckus Wireless to become a stronger competitor against Cisco and HP in the enterprise W-Fi market.

• June 24, 2015 24 Jun'15

  Box and Big Blue announce global partnership

  A week after announcing a new partnership with Microsoft, Box and IBM have announced a new agreement, which will see an integration of their respective technologies.

• June 24, 2015 24 Jun'15

  Drone-based video conferencing service takes off

  Despite strict federal aviation rules, Vidyo and Stampede tout the benefits of the video conferencing service, including governmental and industrial uses.

• June 24, 2015 24 Jun'15

  Windows10 set for strong adoption

  The majority of the IT professionals quizzed by Spiceworks have indicated that they will be adopting Windows 10 in the next couple of years.

• June 24, 2015 24 Jun'15

  AWS shops turn to Amazon partners for log management

  Amazon services produce an avalanche of log data. How can IT pros sort that data into actionable information?

• June 24, 2015 24 Jun'15

  Oracle's total revenue doesn't measure up in Q4

  Oracle PaaS and SaaS sales are up in Oracle's 2015 fourth quarter financial report. Total revenue and earnings per share are lower than analysts predicted.

• June 23, 2015 23 Jun'15

  'Oracle in the cloud' key theme at Partner Kickoff

  Oracle executives emphasized the company's SaaS, PaaS and IaaS cloud offerings at its virtual Oracle FY16 Partner Kickoff.

• June 23, 2015 23 Jun'15

  Data chaos threatens to undermine BI success

  Research commissioned by Splunk has found that many customers are still not using BI tools to get on top of data complexity issues.

• June 23, 2015 23 Jun'15

  Zadara supports Docker containers in AWS

  Zadara adds Docker containers and snapshot support inside Amazon Web Services for its VPSA storage as a service offering.

• June 23, 2015 23 Jun'15

  Docker shores up container capabilities and ecosystem

  Docker networking limitations have hindered production use of containers, but a new feature adds much-needed flexibility.

• June 23, 2015 23 Jun'15

  NIST guidance pushes data security for contractors

  With the recent OPM breach raising questions about the security of federal data within the government, NIST has issued new guidelines in order to secure data stored by federal contractors outside government facilities.

• June 23, 2015 23 Jun'15

  AWS EMR sparks data analytics performance

  Amazon Elastic MapReduce has embraced Apache Spark, reflecting an industry shift around big data analytics.

• June 23, 2015 23 Jun'15

  Oracle goes after AWS and Hana with cloud add-ons

  Oracle has extended its cloud platform with a set of features it hopes will entice existing customers to migrate to the cloud.

• June 23, 2015 23 Jun'15

  Breqwatr adds preconfigured OpenStack storage cloud appliance

  Toronto-based Breqwatr delivers a hyper-converged, all-flash OpenStack appliance for private cloud storage.

• June 23, 2015 23 Jun'15

  AWS' burstable T2 instance line expands

  A new AWS T2.large instance boosts support for testing apps that need more performance, but IT pros cite several reasons the T2.large isn't for use in production.

• June 23, 2015 23 Jun'15

  TechTarget survey: Network security tops 2015 IT challenges

  Any enterprise is vulnerable to a network breach. Almost half of IT pros surveyed say network security is their top networking challenge in 2015.

• June 23, 2015 23 Jun'15

  Survey shows SD-WAN interest but limited deployment

  SD-WAN is creating a lot of buzz this year, but a new TechTarget survey shows that actual deployment will be limited this year, despite the number of new and traditional vendors in the market.

• June 23, 2015 23 Jun'15

  Business needs hamper financial services cyber security

  The requirement for financial services businesses to maintain real-time connection to the global economy impairs security precautions, says Websense.

• June 23, 2015 23 Jun'15

  Arista's latest network automation tools aimed at enterprises

  Arista introduces network automation tools with enterprise features like network-wide rollback.