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• April 09, 2015 09 Apr'15

  Ruckus first to market with 802.11ac Wave 2 access point

  The latest Ruckus 802.11ac access point provides limited use of Wave 2 technology, so existing network infrastructure can keep up.

• April 08, 2015 08 Apr'15

  Tech Data tool tracks special pricing agreements

  Tech Data Corp. today introduced a special pricing agreement tool, My S.P.A. Tracker, which is available to all resellers. The proactive tool is designed to increase revenue for partners by ...

• April 08, 2015 08 Apr'15

  Alleged White House hack highlights typical security failings

  The alleged penetration of sensitive White House computer networks highlights typical security failings, say information security experts.

• April 08, 2015 08 Apr'15

  Juniper pitches finance market with switch-integrated compute

  Juniper launches a compact compute-integrated network switch to boost performance of sensitive applications for financial institutions.

• April 08, 2015 08 Apr'15

  Are cybersecurity threats getting more complex?

  The Websense 2015 Threat Report claims that cybersecurity threats are getting more complex, but one expert says the trends aren't anything new.

• April 08, 2015 08 Apr'15

  Most firms not prepared for advanced threats, RSA study shows

  Most organizations are not following incident response best practice and are not well prepared to face advanced cyber threats.

• April 08, 2015 08 Apr'15

  AWS CodeDeploy adds on-premises instance support

  AWS bolstered CodeDeploy with support for on-premises instances -- a move that follows other recent updates to support hybrid clouds.

• April 08, 2015 08 Apr'15

  New version of Dyre malware emerges to target banks

  Financial malware Dyre, in tandem with social engineering, was used in a new campaign to steal millions from financial institutions, according to IBM researchers.

• April 08, 2015 08 Apr'15

  Brocade to expand campus switch automation

  Brocade is improving its campus networking portfolio with switch automation software, a new line of hardware and additional support for open standard technology.

• April 08, 2015 08 Apr'15

  HGST blends Himalaya and Helium drives

  HGST joins the active archive market with systems that scale up to 4.7 petabytes of storage and have a one-watt per terabyte power consumption.

• April 08, 2015 08 Apr'15

  HP rebuffs public cloud market exit reports

  Hardware giant reinforces commitment to public cloud, but analysts claim it needs to be clearer about its off-premise strategy.

• April 07, 2015 07 Apr'15

  Latest Aerohive product delivers Wi-Fi management to educators

  The latest Aerohive wireless product for education customers includes an updated cloud-based management console and a new access point.

• April 07, 2015 07 Apr'15

  Appcelerator brings rapid API development to MBaaS

  Appcelerator's new Arrow feature aims to help IT and developers connect back-end systems to mobile experiences.

• April 07, 2015 07 Apr'15

  Dell's latest SMB switches a no-frills option

  Dell's latest switches provide basic networking for small and medium-sized companies with fewer than 1,000 employees.

• April 07, 2015 07 Apr'15

  Study: Network pros spending more time on security

  A majority of networking professionals spend 10 or more hours a week on security initiatives, a study finds.

• April 07, 2015 07 Apr'15

  Quantum launches NAS archiving, denser Lattus nodes

  Quantum adds archiving capabilities with the new Artico NAS appliance and enhancements to DXi backup and Lattus object storage systems.

• April 07, 2015 07 Apr'15

  Critical infrastructure commonly hit by destructive cyberattacks

  Critical infrastructure organizations are commonly targeted by cyberattacks aimed at manipulating equipment or destroying data, a survey reveals.

• April 06, 2015 06 Apr'15

  Talon looks to seize sync-and-share market

  Talon extends its RemoteFAST file-sharing software for branch offices to smartphones and tablets.

• April 06, 2015 06 Apr'15

  Google: Android malware cut in half in 2014

  Google's first Android Security Report claims that malware on the platform was found on fewer than 1% of devices in 2014, but experts question if the ecosystem is really as safe as it has ever been.

• April 06, 2015 06 Apr'15

  Symantec aims Backup Exec 15 at latest VMware releases

  Symantec, soon to be known as Veritas, brings out Backup Exec 15 on the heels of VMmare's vSphere 6 release to support the latest VMware technology.

• April 06, 2015 06 Apr'15

  Nebula overcome by OpenStack market realities

  OpenStack startup Nebula's demise is the result of market consolidation and selling a product that went against the market trend.

• April 03, 2015 03 Apr'15

  Acronis rolls out enhanced Acronis Partner Program in North America

  This week in channel news, recovery and data protection vendor Acronis redesigned its partner program; Ingram Micro and Arcserve signed an exclusive distribution deal; more news.

• April 03, 2015 03 Apr'15

  Panzura flashes new line of cloud controllers

  Panzura doubles the amount of flash-based capacity in its new line of cloud controllers for data sharing and collaboration.

• April 03, 2015 03 Apr'15

  VMware users take the slow train to EVO:RAIL adoption

  VMware users are showing interest in EVO:RAIL, but competitive offerings and more complex decision making slows the purchasing process down.

• April 03, 2015 03 Apr'15

  Tangoe's new messaging app offers communication simplicity

  Tangoe's new mobile messaging platform, inTouch, enters a crowded field of competitors but intends to leave out Active Directory integration.

• April 03, 2015 03 Apr'15

  StorReduce dedupes objects in AWS

  Startup StorReduce ventures into uncharted territory with tool for reducing petabyte-scale cloud object stores in the Amazon cloud.

• April 03, 2015 03 Apr'15

  Microsoft goes outside its borders with Azure Site Recovery

  Azure Site Recovery expands Microsoft's cloud disaster recovery capabilities to VMware users and potentially to other services, too.

• April 02, 2015 02 Apr'15

  Trends in IT security signal increased partner opportunity

  IT security has always been a moving target for businesses. The end result: Some do, some don’t and many don’t do enough. However, as companies adopt mobile and cloud IT delivery models, and come ...

• April 02, 2015 02 Apr'15

  Continuum Managed Services lays out new BDR offering

  Continuum Managed Services has primed up Continuity247, a new backup and recovery product for its MSP partners. Learn how the offering compares to Continuum's Vault product.

• April 02, 2015 02 Apr'15

  SSL security crisis has no easy answers

  Experts say even enterprises that carefully secure TLS may still be at the mercy of the numerous security issues affecting the SSL ecosystem.

• April 02, 2015 02 Apr'15

  Oracle offers 'YouTube of the enterprise'

  The Oracle Learning Cloud allows managers and employees to post and share video tutorials, PDFs and PowerPoints.

• April 02, 2015 02 Apr'15

  China said to be behind GitHub DDoS attack

  Security experts say the largest DDoS attack in GitHub history, which lasted five days, was the work of the Chinese government.

• April 02, 2015 02 Apr'15

  Sanctions against cyber attackers and spies may not be that easy

  Barack Obama's executive order allowing sanctions against cyber attackers has been welcomed, but it remains to be seen if challenges can be overcome.

• April 02, 2015 02 Apr'15

  Ruckus debuts second generation 802.11ac Wi-Fi access points

  Wireless networking supplier Ruckus claims an industry first with its launch of enhanced 802.11ac Wave 2 standard access points.

• April 02, 2015 02 Apr'15

  RSAC 2015 to feature IoT, threat intel

  The Internet of Things dominates the agenda at RSA Conference 2015, but experts believe enterprises should focus their attention on threat intelligence and other topics.

• April 02, 2015 02 Apr'15

  Cisco to control Layer 4-7 SDN services with Embrane acquisition

  By acquiring partner Embrane, Cisco cements the company's SDN services technology into the networking giant's platform for building software-defined data centers.

• April 02, 2015 02 Apr'15

  Chef adds continuous delivery to its menu

  The new Chef Delivery tool gives DevOps teams a workflow engine that moves code through build, test and production deployments and much more.

• April 01, 2015 01 Apr'15

  Researchers discover data-stealing malware targeting energy firms

  Security researchers have discovered an espionage campaign that uses customized malware to steal confidential data from energy firms.

• April 01, 2015 01 Apr'15

  HP sues Lynch for billions

  HP has turned up the heat of the former CEO and CFO of Autonomy by suing them for $5.1 billion in the UK courts.

• April 01, 2015 01 Apr'15

  Palo Alto and VMware intensify mobile protection

  Palo Alto Networks and VMware are expanding their partnership deal to address mobile security demands in the channel.

• April 01, 2015 01 Apr'15

  Enterprises to test-drive SDN at IBM innovation centers

  As enterprise interest in SDN grows, new IBM innovation centers allow businesses to test SDN technology from a variety of vendors.

• April 01, 2015 01 Apr'15

  Alcatel-Lucent switch gateway links virtual, physical networks

  Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise has introduced a switch gateway in its latest high-density OmniSwitch that improves data throughput between virtualized applications and a VXLAN.

• April 01, 2015 01 Apr'15

  Cisco pushes on with big hybrid cloud bet

  With Cisco's Intercloud Fabric, users can migrate workloads across different public and private clouds. But are enterprises really ready for a multi-cloud world?

• April 01, 2015 01 Apr'15

  AWS D2 instances pack in disk drives

  New AWS D2 instances pack in disk drives, memory and faster processors, intriguing users with heavy data-processing applications.

• March 31, 2015 31 Mar'15

  Microsoft provides Office 365 MDM for free

  Microsoft provides Office 365 MDM at no cost, giving subscribers basic capabilities for mobile device management and the option of upgrading to the paid service Intune.

• March 31, 2015 31 Mar'15

  IBM sets up $3bn IoT unit to integrate unused data

  IBM to invest $3bn by 2019 in a new internet of things unit to address the fact that 90% of data generated by smart devices is never used.

• March 31, 2015 31 Mar'15

  PCI SSC issues prescriptive new pen-testing guidelines

  The PCI SSC has issued prescriptive new supplemental guidance on penetration testing in an effort to reverse current trends and improve merchant compliance.

• March 31, 2015 31 Mar'15

  G20 data leak highlights threat of human error, say experts

  News that personal data of 31 world leaders was accidentally leaked before the G20 summit in November 2014, highlights the threat of human error.

• March 31, 2015 31 Mar'15

  Uncertainty surrounds SAP S/4HANA roadmap

  The announcement of SAP S/4HANA promises a new world of lightning-fast processes, but making it a reality will not be simple.

• March 31, 2015 31 Mar'15

  IBM GM: Spectrum offers commodity hardware choice

  Storage GM Jamie Thomas says Spectrum offers flexibility to use commodity hardware, object interfaces and scale-out storage for SoftLayer clouds.

• March 31, 2015 31 Mar'15

  Qualys expands SSL tester to better address vulnerabilities

  Qualys has added a free, public API to its SSL testing services, which will enable an enterprise to test any website or server for SSL vulnerabilities.

• March 31, 2015 31 Mar'15

  IBM storage GM discusses hyper-convergence plans

  Jamie Thomas explains IBM's plans for the newly branded Spectrum Storage line, and whether a hyper-converged appliance is on the vendor's roadmap.

• March 30, 2015 30 Mar'15

  Train and transform: New classes from CompTIA

  Training courses geared to keep IT channel partners skilled and current have been a staple offering from CompTIA since 2011, and the recently released IT Channel Training Guide for Spring 2015 ...

• March 30, 2015 30 Mar'15

  MSPAlliance research points to managed services trends, vertical opportunities

  On the final day of the spring MSPWorld conference, MSPAlliance CEO Charles Weaver highlighted MSP trends that point to growth opportunities and areas that need attention.

• March 30, 2015 30 Mar'15

  Google appeal ruling should send shivers through US tech firms

  What are the implications of Google's legal defeat in London and the UK court's hardening attitude towards privacy breaches?

• March 30, 2015 30 Mar'15

  Support-of-things video tool arises following the IoT wave

  TechWatch: Video may have killed the radio star, but it gives new life to next generation remote support tools such as LogMeIn's Rescue Lens.

• March 30, 2015 30 Mar'15

  WAN optimization evolving into SD-WAN

  SD-WAN technology is creating a more intelligent WAN through path control and traffic automation.

• March 30, 2015 30 Mar'15

  Xen reboot response shows cloud maturity

  Xen reboots through live migration and other tactics for patching the hypervisor vulnerability point to better resiliency in public cloud.

• March 30, 2015 30 Mar'15

  Databricks the heir to MapReduce throne?

  At Spark Summit East, Databricks talked up a storm about its new Spark cloud offering in an effort to distinguish the data processing engine from MapReduce and the Hadoop stack: The Data Mill reports.

• March 30, 2015 30 Mar'15

  PCI 3.1: Will it be a 'fire drill'?

  The PCI Security Standards Council has confirmed that PCI DSS 3.1 will be released in just a few weeks. According to a Gartner analyst, the surprise new release could cause major problems for merchants.

• March 27, 2015 27 Mar'15

  Is hosted private cloud right for your MSP business?

  Mark Cavaliero of Carolinas IT explains how he built a successful cloud services business by spinning out hosted private cloud services.

• March 27, 2015 27 Mar'15

  Partner Advantage Program takes aim at Verizon competitors

  In channel news this week, Verizon introduced the Partner Advantage Program; Microsoft added a SkyKick migration benefit to its Internal Use Rights program; and more.

• March 27, 2015 27 Mar'15

  Hybrid cloud driving companies to buy SDN products

  A majority of U.S. businesses are preparing to implement SDN products in the data center by 2017 in order to reduce networking costs.

• March 27, 2015 27 Mar'15

  Google Cloud Launcher accelerates open-source app deployments

  Google hopes to make it easier for users to deploy open-source apps in its cloud through the release of its Google Cloud Launcher tool.

• March 27, 2015 27 Mar'15

  Federal government clouds plagued by security shortfalls

  A new report on government cybersecurity efforts delivered some troubling findings for the federal government's cloud operations.

• March 27, 2015 27 Mar'15

  Amazon job postings hint at AWS roadmap

  Amazon is hiring thousands of people, and where it’s hiring offers clues about where the AWS roadmap is headed.

• March 27, 2015 27 Mar'15

  Microsoft to acquire LiveLoop productivity tool startup

  Microsoft is to acquire LiveLoop, a startup that develops collaboration and sharing tools for Microsoft Office.

• March 27, 2015 27 Mar'15

  SearchYourCloud makes cloud storage search easier, safer

  SearchYourCloud's new tool gives users a way to search multiple cloud sync-and-share services on mobile and desktops, with file-level security.

• March 27, 2015 27 Mar'15

  Two desktop analytics tools to ease endpoint management

  New desktop analytics tools from AppSense and Ericom could help IT admins deal with desktop management at small and large scales.

• March 27, 2015 27 Mar'15

  Amazon Cloud Drive guns for glory with unlimited storage offer

  Amazon's cloud storage service to offer unlimited storage at cheaper rates than Dropbox and Google.

• March 27, 2015 27 Mar'15

  How the social engineering threat has evolved and grown

  Social engineering techniques have become increasingly sophisticated as more personal and corporate data is shared on the Internet, and traditional training techniques may not be enough to keep enterprises safe.

• March 27, 2015 27 Mar'15

  Versatile banking Trojan Vawtrak returns

  Heimdal Security researchers have found new cases of the nesting-doll financial malware, while Fortinet researchers peels back the layers to reveal its surprising intricacies.

• March 26, 2015 26 Mar'15

  Samsung targets business with Microsoft integration

  Samsung has pre-installed Microsoft OneNote, OneDrive, and Skype on the new Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge, as it expands into business.

• March 26, 2015 26 Mar'15

  Cloud UC strategy varies for SMBs, enterprises

  Enterprises interested in cloud UC are adopting a single-tenant, cloud-based UC model rather than multi-tenant UCaaS.

• March 26, 2015 26 Mar'15

  Zuora CFO on subscription business models

  Zuora's Tyler Sloat shares his CFO strategies for succeeding in the subscription economy.

• March 26, 2015 26 Mar'15

  Ovum urges service providers to get serious about cloud security

  Analyst Ovum's report into enterprise cloud adoption warns service providers to stop treating customers' security as an afterthought.

• March 26, 2015 26 Mar'15

  ProfitBricks ignites cloud pricing war with AWS and Google

  IaaS player promises to undercut rivals on price, but analysts question sustainability of business model.

• March 26, 2015 26 Mar'15

  Cross-region S3 replication simplifies disaster recovery

  Replication across AWS cloud regions is now a checkbox item in the management console, circumventing homegrown and third-party tools.

• March 26, 2015 26 Mar'15

  Hedvig comes out of stealth with SDS software

  Hedvig, whose founder created Cassandra and Amazon Dynamo, looks to disrupt storage with a distributed platform that virtualizes hyperscale storage.

• March 26, 2015 26 Mar'15

  Trust a key element in the convergence sale

  Putting all of your eggs in one basket is not something that some customers decide to do with reservations making trust in the channel supplier vital.

• March 26, 2015 26 Mar'15

  IBM adds block and file cloud storage options to SoftLayer

  Big Blue adds iSCSI block and file access to SoftLayer cloud storage services.

• March 25, 2015 25 Mar'15

  Pivotal Cloud Foundry makes public cloud link with AWS

  Pivotal Cloud Foundry is offering one-click connections to AWS, as well as free infrastructure management for subscription customers.

• March 25, 2015 25 Mar'15

  Azure App Service eases mobile, Web development

  Azure App Service combines existing tools and adds cross-platform capabilities for streamlined mobile and Web application development.

• March 25, 2015 25 Mar'15

  Ponemon: Companies are neglecting mobile app security

  The Ponemon Institute says enterprises are devoting millions of dollars to mobile application development, but barely any of the money is focused on security.

• March 25, 2015 25 Mar'15

  SoftLayer adds performance tiering to its IBM Cloud

  SoftLayer upgrades its IBM Cloud storage with services for granular performance management that calibrate IOPS to application needs.

• March 25, 2015 25 Mar'15

  Oracle Marketing Cloud uses big data to help higher ed

  Oracle releases Oracle Marketing Cloud products for colleges and data-as-a-service users, and a judge decides to keep the Oregon lawsuit in-state.

• March 24, 2015 24 Mar'15

  Citrix specializations, differentiation for partners

  Just a couple of months after Citrix introduced four new specializations designed to demonstrate a high level of technical competency, 15 partner organizations have earned one or more ...

• March 24, 2015 24 Mar'15

  BandarChor ransomware evolves, spreads to U.S.

  Antivirus vendor F-Secure discovered BandarChor, a new type of ransomware based on an existing malware family that struck Russia last year.

• March 24, 2015 24 Mar'15

  Epic still on top, but Cerner narrows gap, KLAS says

  Epic Systems wins big EHR buying decisions 2-1 over Cerner, down from 3-1 last year, KLAS says. The other players: Meditech, McKesson, and Allscripts.

• March 24, 2015 24 Mar'15

  Enterprise messaging apps aren't threatening UC yet

  Market research debunks claims that enterprise messaging apps are poised to take market share away from UC vendors.

• March 24, 2015 24 Mar'15

  Third-quarter results show a strong Oracle cloud

  Oracle's third-quarter financial results look very similar to last year's, but with constant currency the picture is much brighter. And the Oracle cloud business was particularly strong, company execs said.

• March 23, 2015 23 Mar'15

  Juniper, Mirantis further OpenStack SDN marriage

  Juniper and Mirantis are expanding their engineering partnership to deliver an OpenStack SDN combo to appeal to enterprises making the SDN move.

• March 23, 2015 23 Mar'15

  Cisco IP phones vulnerable to eavesdropping

  Cisco says a vulnerability in some of its IP phones for SMBs could allow attackers to remotely eavesdrop on phone calls. A fix is not yet available, but Cisco has offered mitigation techniques.

• March 23, 2015 23 Mar'15

  Embedded systems expand, but security lags behind

  As more devices become Internet-enabled, experts fear an embedded systems security worst-case scenario for enterprises, many of which are unaware of the risks or unable to mitigate them.

• March 23, 2015 23 Mar'15

  Windows XP migration drying up hits VDI demand

  The decline in the number of users needing to move off Windows XP has not only hit demand for traditional desktops but also VDI deployments.

• March 23, 2015 23 Mar'15

  Microsoft's Nano Server: What to expect

  With Microsoft reportedly set to announce a stripped-back version of Windows Server, what can IT leaders expect to see?

• March 20, 2015 20 Mar'15

  Nimble Storage unveils partner program for Nimble Adaptive Flash

  This week in the channel, Nimble Storage launched a global partner program; NTT America signed with the Advantage Communications Group; and more.

• March 20, 2015 20 Mar'15

  HP recommits to PPS partners

  LAS VEGAS -- The doors have closed on Hewlett-Packard Co.'s Global Partner Conference (HP GPC) 2015 – and next year's event will be different following the split of HP into two companies. But as ...

• March 20, 2015 20 Mar'15

  Formulating a successful cloud storage strategy

  While cloud storage may seem simple, there's a lot to consider to maximize ROI. Make sure security, metadata and management are top of mind.

• March 20, 2015 20 Mar'15

  AAA maps out SaaS deployment success

  Deploying SaaS can drive major efficiency gains within an organization. But it also presents its fair share of challenges -- security being one of them.