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• May 08, 2017 08 May'17

  Dell EMC IDPA changes vendor's backup strategy

  The Dell EMC Integrated Data Protection Appliance is the vendor's first integrated enterprise backup target. What does this mean for physical Data Domain appliances?

• May 08, 2017 08 May'17

  Jive acquired in enterprise collaboration software merger

  In UC news, Jive is in the midst of being acquired by a private equity firm and is expected to merge with CRM provider Aurea. Plus, UC cloud service provider Fuze gets more money.

• May 08, 2017 08 May'17

  Red Hat OpenShift opens doors for container-based mobile app dev

  The Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform furthers its partnership with Amazon Web Services with a new integration that makes it easier for developers to build and deploy apps in containers.

• May 08, 2017 08 May'17

  Micron SolidScale NVMe-oF-based storage architecture emerges

  Micron Technology launched its SolidScale storage architecture based on NVMe-oF technologies, with plans for branded appliances to start shipping later this year.

• May 08, 2017 08 May'17

  Failure is a critical component for blockchain development

  Validity, consensus and immutability are the core components of blockchain, and all three have failed. Cornell's Emin Gun Sirer explains why that's not such a bad thing.

• May 05, 2017 05 May'17

  Latest ransomware testing different features

  There is no shortage of new types of ransomware, many with unique features, and experts say it's an exercise in innovation and finding revenue opportunity.

• May 05, 2017 05 May'17

  TLS client certs could boost IoT security

  The TLS client authentication protocol has been a part of the security standard for years, but is just now coming into its own in certifying secure IoT connections.

• May 04, 2017 04 May'17

  Dell EMC World won't reduce storage platforms

  This year's Dell EMC World will feature plenty of product releases as the mega-vendor beefs up emerging technologies while continuing its pre-merger platforms.

• May 03, 2017 03 May'17

  Datos IO branches out to support Microsoft SQL

  Datos IO now offers data protection and recovery for Microsoft SQL in the cloud. The RecoverX 2.0 software also supports Cloudera and Hortonworks platforms.

• May 03, 2017 03 May'17

  Red Hat integrates Gluster storage with OpenShift on AWS

  Red Hat integrated Gluster storage with the OpenShift Container Platform on Amazon Web Services to provide consistent storage for on-premises and cloud application deployments.

• May 03, 2017 03 May'17

  Cisco buying Viptela to beef up SD-WAN offering

  SD-WAN vendor Viptela is the latest Cisco acquisition, as the networking vendor takes steps to fortify its cloud services portfolio.

• May 01, 2017 01 May'17

  IT skeptical about Windows 10 Cloud OS

  IT experts are skeptical that Microsoft can deliver a quality OS in Windows 10 Cloud, which the company is expected to announce this week along with a new, low-end PC.

• May 01, 2017 01 May'17

  HPE's Nimble deal stirs flash acquisition speculation

  HPE's $1.2 billion deal for Nimble Storage has stirred speculation on potential future acquisitions in the all-flash array market, such as Kaminario and Pure Storage.

• April 27, 2017 27 Apr'17

  Arcserve buys FastArchiver, adds archive product fast

  An Arcserve archiving module under its UDP umbrella incorporates technology acquired from FastArchiver in early 2017 and provides granular email search of Outlook.

• April 27, 2017 27 Apr'17

  Microsoft's new Office 365 push may backfire

  Business versions of Skype, OneDrive and Outlook won't be part of on-premises Microsoft Office licenses, leaving those shops looking for alternatives.

• April 27, 2017 27 Apr'17

  Amazon readies GDPR compliance for all customers

  Amazon promises AWS cloud services will all be GDPR compliant before enforcement of the new EU data privacy regulation starts in 2018, offers customers assistance.

• April 26, 2017 26 Apr'17

  Cyber espionage up, basic defenses still down, DBIR shows

  Organizations are still failing to address basic security issues and well-known attack methods, Verizon’s latest Data Breach Investigations Report reveals for a second year in a row.

• April 26, 2017 26 Apr'17

  Next-generation processors block older Windows

  The benefits of the latest generation of PCs will now only be available to those who run Windows 10.

• April 26, 2017 26 Apr'17

  Rubrik protects native apps in AWS, Azure

  Rubrik's cloud platform gets an upgrade with support for native cloud applications in AWS and Microsoft Azure for application-consistent snapshots and recovery.

• April 25, 2017 25 Apr'17

  Tips for getting started in healthcare vertical markets

  Panelists at the Channel Partners Conference and Expo 2017 provided insight into this complex market and typically tightknit community of buyers.

• April 25, 2017 25 Apr'17

  Violin's flash arrays emerge from bankruptcy

  Redux of Violin Memory's flash storage is under way with new CEO, new strategy and new ownership by Soros Fund Management's Quantum Partners. Will it finally turn a profit?

• April 24, 2017 24 Apr'17

  Research highlights cloud security complacency risks

  Enterprise attitudes to cloud security are laid bare in the latest research report from Bitglass, and suggest more could be done to secure corporate data stored off-premises.

• April 21, 2017 21 Apr'17

  EiQ Networks, Bay Dynamics sign up cybersecurity partners

  EiQ Networks and Bay Dynamics are the latest in the growing list of cybersecurity vendors expanding their relationships with channel partner companies.

• April 21, 2017 21 Apr'17

  Stuxnet vulnerability still being exploited in the wild

  Security researchers say the vulnerability behind the infamous Stuxnet worm is still the most exploited in the world, seven years after being patched.

• April 21, 2017 21 Apr'17

  Riverbed widens WAN portfolio with Xirrus

  The acquisition of wireless LAN provider Xirrus makes the Riverbed WAN portfolio more appealing to companies with branch offices.

• April 21, 2017 21 Apr'17

  Juniper talks SDN security, machine learning

  Juniper's Kevin Walker talks with SearchSecurity about his company's Software-Defined Secure Network platform, improving SDN security, and the evolution of machine learning.

• April 20, 2017 20 Apr'17

  Microsoft beckons Linux containers onto Windows Server

  Microsoft's project to run Linux containers on Windows bridges a technical -- but not cultural -- divide.

• April 20, 2017 20 Apr'17

  Riverbed buys Xirrus to add wireless to SD-WAN line-up

  Network performance technology supplier says acquisition will strengthen its software-defined network offering.

• April 19, 2017 19 Apr'17

  Oracle calls on channel to skill up and go for the base

  Oracle's shift to the cloud is creating an opportunity for the channel to move existing customers away from on-premises to a public platform.

• April 19, 2017 19 Apr'17

  Unique ransomware service deletes decryptor

  A new type of ransomware-as-a-service has appeared on the dark web with unique features and an inexpensive price to attract malicious actors.

• April 19, 2017 19 Apr'17

  Avaya takes virtualized network services to the campus

  Avaya has introduced a platform for taking virtualized network functions to campus networks. New products include an operating system and orchestration engine.

• April 19, 2017 19 Apr'17

  E8 gives capacity jolt to D24 NVMe flash array

  E8 qualifies HGST SN200 6.4 TB PCIe drives for D24 NVMe all-flash system. The 2U enclosure houses 24 SSDs and scales to 140 TB of usable capacity.

• April 19, 2017 19 Apr'17

  Load DynamiX 5.3 improvements focus on NFS, flash

  Version 5.3 of Virtual Instruments' Load DynamiX 5 software supports time-based NFSv3 workloads, eases preconditioning of flash arrays and improves the user interface.

• April 18, 2017 18 Apr'17

  Latest Shadow Brokers NSA cyberweapons already patched

  A new release of NSA cyberweapons falls flat as Windows exploits from the Shadow Brokers have mostly been patched, but unsupported systems still at risk.

• April 18, 2017 18 Apr'17

  HPE to move quickly to release Nimble products to partners

  With the acquisition of Nimble Storage wrapping up, HPE is going to get the full product portfolio out to partners.

• April 17, 2017 17 Apr'17

  Google cloud partnership integrates Elasticsearch

  Google's cloud partnership with Elastic brings the open source search engine and analytics tool to GCP, as Google tries to appeal to enterprises without ignoring its customer base.

• April 17, 2017 17 Apr'17

  New Azure tools ease components of cloud migration

  Microsoft has sweetened the pot for potential cloud customers with new Azure migration tools and Windows Servers discounts.

• April 17, 2017 17 Apr'17

  Windows 10 Creators Update leaves IT pros wanting more

  IT pros hoped for more advanced security tools and other new Windows 10 Creators Update features, but they were underwhelmed by what they actually received.

• April 17, 2017 17 Apr'17

  Rubrik CEO: Cloud should be built in natively

  Rubrik CEO Bipul Sinha says cloud and virtualization were key pieces of his company's converged data protection platform from the start, but customers also want physical protection.

• April 14, 2017 14 Apr'17

  Avant: Sales enablement tools a 'must-have' for next-gen tech

  Technology distributor Avant updated its sales enablement application, BattleApp, with more support for channel sales activities; other news from the week.

• April 14, 2017 14 Apr'17

  Hybrid Skype, cloud telephony need network analysis

  The addition of cloud telephony to Skype for Business and growing interest in hybrid deployments means organizations must ensure their networks can support new requirements.

• April 12, 2017 12 Apr'17

  VeloCloud partners with security vendors

  VeloCloud introduced a partner program that lets security vendor partners develop integrated SD-WAN security services. Current partners include Fortinet, IBM Security and Check Point.

• April 12, 2017 12 Apr'17

  Microsoft Security Update Guide adds confusion for some

  Microsoft fundamentally changes how IT pros will consume Patch Tuesday releases with the Security Update Guide and brings fixes for an actively exploited Word zero-day.

• April 07, 2017 07 Apr'17

  New Cisco certifications aimed at digital networking

  The latest Cisco certification programs are for IT professionals working with the vendor's Digital Network Architecture.

• April 07, 2017 07 Apr'17

  Microsoft reveals Windows 10 data collection details

  Microsoft exposes Windows 10 telemetry practices just a week before Creators Update, may allay privacy concerns over Windows 10 data collection.

• April 07, 2017 07 Apr'17

  IoT monetization is not a technology-push proposition

  For CIOs tasked with building a new revenue stream from internet of things services, understanding your customers' expectations comes first.

• April 06, 2017 06 Apr'17

  Government threat intel sharing needs culture change

  The U.S. government says it wants to improve threat intelligence sharing between the public and private sector, but experts are unsure that is possible in the current climate.

• April 06, 2017 06 Apr'17

  Azure monitoring tools target app performance

  New Azure monitoring tools add another layer of insights into workload performance on the public cloud as providers try to meet enterprise demands and increase transparency.

• April 06, 2017 06 Apr'17

  Cisco's AppDynamics sets up to ride DevOps wave

  Customers of AppDynamics say the Spring '17 release aligns with the trend to share tools and improve coordination between developers and IT operations.

• April 06, 2017 06 Apr'17

  Chinese hacking team linked to trade group hack

  Evidence points to Chinese hacking group APT10 conducting economic espionage in breach of trade policy group prior to U.S.-China trade summit talks in Florida.

• April 06, 2017 06 Apr'17

  Intermedia reaching out to former McAfee email security customers

  Intermedia has passed a milestone of half a million customers using its email protection product.

• April 05, 2017 05 Apr'17

  Pegasus threat found on a few Android devices

  One of the more malicious iOS threats -- Pegasus malware -- has made its way to Android devices and it has some dangerous new tricks in its arsenal.

• April 05, 2017 05 Apr'17

  Datrium adds snapshots, replication, Rackscale option

  Datrium plans to release a major update adding key enterprise storage features such as snapshots and replication and a new 'open converged' Rackscale turnkey system option.

• April 05, 2017 05 Apr'17

  Apperian president talks life under Arxan

  MAM provider Apperian looks to take advantage of a larger support staff and new mobile application security technology following its acquisition by Arxan.

• April 05, 2017 05 Apr'17

  ISOC, OTA internet security standards bodies to merge

  The two leading internet security protocol bodies, Online Trust Alliance and Internet Society, merge to work for improved IoT security and online security.

• April 05, 2017 05 Apr'17

  Seagate storage arrays grow with RealStor flash, hybrid

  Hybrid and all-flash RealStor Seagate storage arrays are sold to original equipment makers to build branded storage systems. The all-flash pricing is pegged at less than $50,000.

• April 04, 2017 04 Apr'17

  Cohesity secondary storage boxes support objects, NAS

  Cohesity keeps extending its converged secondary storage platform, with object storage, NAS and erasure coding joining the lineup. The startup also completed another funding round.

• April 04, 2017 04 Apr'17

  Mozilla developers list 14 Symantec certificate issues

  Mozilla developers respond to questionable Symantec certificate authority practices, as the security provider questions Google's proposed solutions.

• April 04, 2017 04 Apr'17

  451 Research: AWS cloud dominance under growing threat

  Latest Voice of the Enterprise report from 451 Research suggests competition in the IaaS market is heating up, with Microsoft and Google posing a growing threat to AWS.

• April 04, 2017 04 Apr'17

  IT services merger DXC takes first steps

  The merger of CSC and HPE Services is complete, and the new company will focus on digital transformation.

• April 04, 2017 04 Apr'17

  Reborn McAfee looking to generate more channel opportunities

  McAfee's return to the security market as a standalone company should be good for the firm's loyal channel partners.

• April 04, 2017 04 Apr'17

  Trump signs bill to repeal Obama-era internet privacy protections

  US president Donald Trump approves the repeal of planned privacy protections, opening the way for ISPs to sell customer browsing data.

• April 03, 2017 03 Apr'17

  Cloudian launches beefed-up Hyperstore 400 object storage box

  Object store specialist packs nearly a TB into 4U of rackspace in appliances with S3 and file access aimed at service providers, media and video surveillance use cases.

• March 31, 2017 31 Mar'17

  SonicWall partner initiatives see strong growth following Dell spinout

  Security vendor SonicWall has unveiled new partner training and marketing programs that take aim at SMB cybersecurity threats; other channel news from the week.

• March 31, 2017 31 Mar'17

  Executive order allows sanctions against cybercriminals

  A cyber executive order from the Obama-era has been extended by President Trump to allow sanctions placed on cybercriminals who attack the U.S.

• March 31, 2017 31 Mar'17

  Extreme sows uncertainty with Brocade acquisition

  Extreme is expected to face challenges in unifying its acquisition-fed product portfolio, which grew more complex with the recent purchase of the Brocade data center business.

• March 31, 2017 31 Mar'17

  Smartphones becoming more viable thin clients

  Vendors have taken cracks at turning phones into mobile thin clients before, but display protocol improvements and advancements in hardware make it more of a possibility now.

• March 30, 2017 30 Mar'17

  Panasas, Promark pursue scale-out NAS storage market

  In the scale-out NAS market, Panasas is partnering with Ingram Micro's Promark value-added distributor subsidiary to boost government and commercial channel sales.

• March 30, 2017 30 Mar'17

  Cisco puts a ring on object storage from Scality

  Customers can get Scality software for object storage on Cisco Unified Computing System hardware. Raw capacity tops 3 PB per six-node chassis, with Cisco sales and support.

• March 30, 2017 30 Mar'17

  Comey's encryption claims mislead, say experts

  FBI director James Comey clearly laid out his views on strong encryption and urged more conversation, but experts say his arguments fall flat and may even be misleading.

• March 30, 2017 30 Mar'17

  Silver Peak SD-WAN sits comfortably in corporate branch

  SD-WAN vendor Silver Peak releases an EdgeConnect update that takes the company closer to a complete branch office networking platform.

• March 28, 2017 28 Mar'17

  MSPWorld 2017: MSPs can't ignore cybersecurity market

  Throughout the MSPWorld 2017 conference, speakers looked to drive home the message that MSPs must focus on security issues and protect customer data.

• March 24, 2017 24 Mar'17

  Comodo Certificate Transparency logs to be opened

  Certificate authority Comodo has submitted two new Certificate Transparency logs for approval by Google, which aim to accept any publicly trusted certificates from any CA.

• March 24, 2017 24 Mar'17

  Juniper ups DCI flexibility with latest line cards

  The latest Juniper line cards provide more connection options for companies using the vendor's data center interconnect technology.

• March 24, 2017 24 Mar'17

  Kaseya boss reacts to evolving MSP market

  Fred Voccola has been in the hot seat at Kaseya for almost two years and has witnessed changes and constant evolution during that time.

• March 24, 2017 24 Mar'17

  Vendors showcase new UC products at industry expo

  Vendors will exhibit their latest UC products at Enterprise Connect 2017, from collaboration tools for huddle rooms to apps that support enterprise mobility.

• March 23, 2017 23 Mar'17

  HashiCorp beefs up Vault features for enterprises

  Vault is intriguing to enterprises, but adoption can be a slow process in large, complex environments with legacy security tools.

• March 23, 2017 23 Mar'17

  Ctera CEO: Security, multicloud will be big '17 trends

  Ctera forges partnerships with HPE and IBM to expand its data center reach; CEO says enterprise customers will focus on security and multicloud strategies in 2017.

• March 23, 2017 23 Mar'17

  Red Hat turns to IBM to sell OpenStack to enterprises

  By the end of the month, enterprises can get the Red Hat OpenStack Platform through the IBM Cloud. The offering is expected to make the software for private clouds easier to use.

• March 23, 2017 23 Mar'17

  EHR patient safety issues not surprising to experts

  Experts were not surprised by the recently published ECRI report on patient safety issues. In fact, experts agreed these issues have been around for a while.

• March 22, 2017 22 Mar'17

  IBM Bluemix and Microsoft Xamarin can work together

  Microsoft's acquisition of Xamarin forced a change in strategy within IBM, and that turned out to be a good thing for IBM's Bluemix and Mobile cloud platforms.

• March 22, 2017 22 Mar'17

  Middlebox interception of HTTPS unsafe, US-CERT warns

  HTTPS interception in security products and services may be reducing security rather than improving it, according to US-CERT, which puts middleboxes in a precarious position.

• March 22, 2017 22 Mar'17

  IBM Watson brings user data analytics to MaaS360

  IBM MaaS360 can now take advantage of Watson machine learning. Its new Advisor tool recommends policies based on analyzed user data for IT to implement on PCs and mobile devices.

• March 21, 2017 21 Mar'17

  Amazon and Google enter UC fray at Enterprise Connect

  Slack, Cisco Spark, Microsoft Teams and other team collaboration apps are tweaking traditional UC systems. Plus, Amazon and Google enter the fray as potential players.

• March 21, 2017 21 Mar'17

  WikiLeaks has demands for CIA vulnerabilities

  WikiLeaks reportedly made demands of vendors at risk from the Vault 7 CIA hacks, but without knowing what the requirements are, experts are unsure how to react.

• March 21, 2017 21 Mar'17

  Intel 3D XPoint-based SSDs claim speed edge over flash

  New Intel Optane SSDs based on long-awaited 3D XPoint technology ship to early customers, promising up to eight times the performance over NAND flash-based NVMe PCIe SSDs.

• March 21, 2017 21 Mar'17

  FBI Director confirms Trump campaign investigation

  FBI Director James Comey confirmed the bureau is investigating the Trump campaign's ties to the Russian government and election cyberattacks such as the DNC breach.

• March 21, 2017 21 Mar'17

  IBM cloud chills with cold object storage vault tier

  IBM enhances its cloud object storage based on Cleversafe technology with flexible pricing and a long-term, three-tiered cold vault object store for inactive data.

• March 21, 2017 21 Mar'17

  Samsung Knox now lets IT manage Android updates

  Knox's E-FOTA feature lets IT test Android OS updates before users install them on their Samsung devices, preventing apps from breaking.

• March 20, 2017 20 Mar'17

  Tegile CEO: Waiting on NVMe, IPO

  The Tegile CEO talks about how the all-flash market is shaping up with the advent of NVM express, and how his company is battling against the major data storage vendors.

• March 20, 2017 20 Mar'17

  HPE 3PAR flash is target for persistent containers

  HPE 3PAR flash container reference architecture bundles Mesosphere orchestration software with ProLiant blades, 10 GB SAN FlexFabric and StoreServ 8200 arrays.

• March 20, 2017 20 Mar'17

  Dell joins HPE and Cisco as top cloud infrastructure providers

  Cloud infrastructure is looking like a three-horse race between the big U.S. suppliers, but the contract manufacturers are also in the running.

• March 20, 2017 20 Mar'17

  IBM cognitive assistant to help manage and secure devices

  IBM has announced a cognitive assistant powered by IBM Watson to help businesses manage and secure endpoints, including devices making up the internet of things.

• March 17, 2017 17 Mar'17

  Minting cookies can be nastier than forged cookies

  Although minting authentication cookies is not widely understood, the Yahoo hacker indictments has brought it to the forefront and shown it can be very dangerous.

• March 17, 2017 17 Mar'17

  Disparate business systems united via digital transition

  Breaking down silos between BPM and ECM is essential for staying competitive in the cloud age. One systems integrator turned to Alfresco Digital Business Platform.

• March 17, 2017 17 Mar'17

  Yahoo breach indictments may not deter hackers

  The Department of Justice indicted suspects in the 2014 Yahoo breach, but experts are unsure if this will prove to be an effective hacker deterrent moving forward.

• March 16, 2017 16 Mar'17

  AWS Reserved Instances add option to segment resources

  AWS Reserved Instances are now more flexible than ever, but challenges remain with the discount service -- a problem magnified by Google's new streamlined discount offering.

• March 16, 2017 16 Mar'17

  Oracle turning the focus on taking share in the SME market

  With the cloud making it easier and cheaper for smaller firms to take advantage of Oracle's ERP and SaaS products, the vendor is gunning for some fresh market share.

• March 16, 2017 16 Mar'17

  Oracle Q3 2016-17 results show 2% growth

  Oracle’s third-quarter results for fiscal year 2017 show 2% growth in overall revenue, with cloud representing 13% of the total. Executives are bullish on cloud ERP growth prospects.

• March 15, 2017 15 Mar'17

  Cisco faces going stag in hyper-converged world

  As Cisco looks to soon be without SimpliVity as a hyper-converged infrastructure partner, it beefs up its HyperFlex product with co-engineered software with Springpath.