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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.
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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
Crisis management strategies: Platte River Networks offers some advice

The MSP involved in the Clinton email server controversy shared insight into how it survived the highly publicized investigation and resulting negative attention.
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
Cybersecurity vendors spin up channel partner programs

The tempo of partnering activity in the IT security space has intensified recently, with a spate of new or expanded channel programs; more news from the week.
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
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
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
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
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 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 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 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 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
IndependenceIT launches program for cloud solution providers

Cloud solution providers will see a revised pricing framework and a new three-tier partner program from IndependenceIT, a cloud management platform company; other news from the week.
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
Cybersecurity market: Channel firms target larger customers

IT security services seems a promising growth market for channel partner firms, but they may need to look to larger enterprises as their key demographic.
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
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 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 17, 2017 17 Mar'17
Ingram Micro resellers get insight into vertical market segments

Ingram Micro introduced new resources for pursuing security opportunities within vertical market segments; other channel news from the week.
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 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 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 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 15, 2017 15 Mar'17
RPA software: Blue Prism builds partner network, certification program

Blue Prism, an RPA vendor, is building up its partner network, cultivating relationships with consulting firms and integrators such as Accenture, EY and IBM.
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.
March 15, 2017 15 Mar'17
Avaya customers could benefit from Extreme acquisition

Users of Avaya networking products would be in a strong negotiating position if Extreme Networks bought the portfolio.
March 15, 2017 15 Mar'17
Competitors wonder how Nimble fits in HPE's plans

Merging the Nimble Storage product line with HPE gear and engineering teams creates overlap and competition for its R&D budget. Other storage startups see an opening.
March 15, 2017 15 Mar'17
Google's Hangouts business apps come with risks

The latest Google Hangouts apps are a competitive team collaboration offering from a vendor with a spotty track record in enterprise technology.
March 15, 2017 15 Mar'17
US set to charge four hackers for Yahoo breaches

Three Russians are reportedly among four hackers US authorities believe to be linked to data breaches at Yahoo affecting more than a billion accounts.
March 15, 2017 15 Mar'17
Ransomware detection among Unitrends' latest features

Unitrends' physical and virtual appliances can alert administrators if ransomware is detected. The updated products also feature simplified backup management.
March 14, 2017 14 Mar'17
Virtual reality services make collaboration immersive

Virtual reality services could offer enterprises lower-cost, immersive visual collaboration, but technical and security hurdles must be addressed.
March 14, 2017 14 Mar'17
Android malware preinstalled on devices

Security researchers found Android ransomware and malware preinstalled on popular devices, putting users at risk for information theft, tracking and more.
March 14, 2017 14 Mar'17
Without SDN, does digital transformation exist?

There's a lot of talk about digital transformation in the tech industry, but to obtain it, enterprises need to undertake network transformation. That's where SDN can help.
March 14, 2017 14 Mar'17
SHA-1 certificate deprecation trouble for SAP Ariba

SHA-1 certificates are still in play, despite browser deprecation, as SAP Ariba advises legacy users to use unpatched browsers to avoid error messages, blocked access.
March 14, 2017 14 Mar'17
Innovium unveils chipset that doubles existing speeds

Innovium, led by former execs at Cavium and Broadcom, is targeting its switch silicon to hyperscale data centers as more workloads move to the cloud.
March 13, 2017 13 Mar'17
Unified Verizon-XO channel program set for June debut

Verizon is bringing in resources and assets from XO Communications, as it unifies its channel program and rolls out a new business unit for small businesses and government markets.
March 10, 2017 10 Mar'17
IBM-Salesforce alliance sparks new Bluewolf practice

IBM company and Salesforce consultancy Bluewolf will offer services around the new Watson-Einstein integration; other channel news from the week.
March 10, 2017 10 Mar'17
Google Cloud partners in the spotlight at tech conference

Partners stood out at the Google Cloud Next conference, showcasing offerings that incorporate Google's cloud services and getting a plug from Eric Schmidt.
March 10, 2017 10 Mar'17
AWS S3 outage: Channel partners mull redundancy options

Channel partner executives and industry observers consider redundancy options in the aftermath of Amazon Web Services' recent Simple Storage Service outage.
March 10, 2017 10 Mar'17
Assange promises to help disarm CIA cyberweapons

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange promised to work with vendors to help patch products vulnerable to CIA hacking tools, while the FBI and CIA will investigate the leak.
March 10, 2017 10 Mar'17
Vendors look for money in cloud-only open technology

Announcements from Facebook and Microsoft were the highlight of this year's Open Compute Summit, which remains a showcase for hyperscale cloud technology.
March 10, 2017 10 Mar'17
The cloud's about to hit close to home

As IoT workloads proliferate in the enterprise, more organizations will process data closer to the network edge. But that doesn't mean cloud computing is near its end.
March 10, 2017 10 Mar'17
Cloud-based UC forecast sees upswing

Cloud-based unified communications and video conferencing adoption are seeing gradual increases, according to a new survey. Plus, Cisco and Microsoft still reign supreme.
March 10, 2017 10 Mar'17
Is enterprise cloud migration picking up steam?

Historically, cloud technology has scared off large enterprises due to security concerns. Now, as cloud security improves, enterprise cloud migration is on the rise.
March 09, 2017 09 Mar'17
Google doubles down enterprise bets for public cloud

With a handful of new customers and integration with SAP HANA, Google reiterates its readiness to support enterprise workloads on its public cloud platform.
March 09, 2017 09 Mar'17
Java deserialization bugs fixed in open source projects

Google employees recently completed Operation Rosehub, a grass roots effort that patches a set of serious Java vulnerabilities in thousands of open source projects.
March 09, 2017 09 Mar'17
Flash in the pan: Dell EMC drops DSSD stand-alone server

The DSSD D5 for PowerEdge servers from Dell EMC was the first product from the merged vendors. DSSD instead will be used to accelerate existing and new all-flash systems.
March 08, 2017 08 Mar'17
Possible changes to fiduciary rule could touch HR tech

After the Trump administration suspended the Department of Labor fiduciary rule, uncertainty about tighter regulation of retirement plan providers could affect HR tech planning.
March 08, 2017 08 Mar'17
Einstein, Watson to share AI capabilities

By combining Watson's troves of unstructured data with Salesforce's CRM data, users can mine for even greater insights.
March 08, 2017 08 Mar'17
Arista containerizes its switching operating system

Switching vendor Arista has containerized its Extensible Operating System. Container development is rising in the data centers of cloud providers -- the vendor's largest customer base.
March 08, 2017 08 Mar'17
WikiLeaks posts cache of 'Vault 7' CIA hacking tools

WikiLeaks released a massive dump of files it claims to be CIA hacking tools, codenamed Vault 7, which includes iOS and Android zero-day exploits.
March 08, 2017 08 Mar'17
Sudden romance: HPE-Nimble acquisition has people talking

Surprising HPE acquisition snares hybrid flash vendor Nimble Storage for proposed $1.2 billion. HPE picks up Nimble arrays and vaunts InfoSight storage analytics and monitoring.
March 07, 2017 07 Mar'17
Report shows four top ERP vendors evenly matched

Panorama Consulting says SAP continues as market leader among the top four ERP vendors. But the market has evened, and Microsoft Dynamics moved past Oracle into second place.
March 07, 2017 07 Mar'17
Veritas expands partnership with Google

Enterprises can now deploy NetBackup and Backup Exec on the Google Cloud Platform, among other capabilities.

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