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• October 15, 2014 15 Oct'14

  In Memoriam: Shon Harris

  Shon Harris, founder and CEO of Logical Security and recognized security certification training expert, died Oct. 8, 2014, after a long illness. SearchSecurity pays tribute to her contributions to the information security field.

• October 15, 2014 15 Oct'14

  New NEC SDN starter pack gets you started for $3,000

  NEC is hoping to push OpenFlow technology to a wider audience with a low-cost SDN starter pack.

• October 14, 2014 14 Oct'14

  As more data breaches pile up, root causes vary

  Recent data breaches at Kmart, Dairy Queen and MBIA demonstrated just how many exploit avenues are available to attackers.

• October 14, 2014 14 Oct'14

  Sonus virtualizes signaling and policy appliances

  Sonus Networks expands its network functions virtualization efforts with virtualized diameter signaling engines and policy controllers. It also integrated with Juniper's Contrail controller.

• October 14, 2014 14 Oct'14

  Russian cyber criminals exploit Microsoft bug

  Russian hackers have used a vulnerability in Microsoft software to spy on targets including NATO and Western European governments.

• October 14, 2014 14 Oct'14

  Scale adds bigger-capacity HC3 hyper-converged node

  Early hyper-convergence player Scale Computing doubles the storage, compute and memory in its HC3 node, upgrades software for nondisruptive upgrades.

• October 14, 2014 14 Oct'14

  The emerging role of smart machines

  Machine intelligence isn't a new concept, but now it's becoming less science fiction and more of a reality. Companies should understand and prepare for the growing role of smart machines in IT and business operations.

• October 14, 2014 14 Oct'14

  HP partners with Nuage Networks for overlay networking

  Distributed Cloud Networking is HP network virtualization software that borrows network overlay technology from ALU's Nuage Networks subsidiary.

• October 14, 2014 14 Oct'14

  Four active zero days highlight October Patch Tuesday

  One of the zero days fixed in the October 2014 Patch Tuesday had been used in attacks against NATO and others, while FireEye discovered two more being used in targeted attacks.

• October 14, 2014 14 Oct'14

  Dropbox hacked? Not so fast, company says

  Dropbox refuted reports that a hacker had obtained 6.9 million customer usernames and passwords from the cloud storage service, but encouraged customers to use its 2FA security feature regardless.

• October 14, 2014 14 Oct'14

  Oracle unveils FS1 flash system to accommodate SSD, HDD tiers

  Oracle FS1 Series Flash Storage System could threaten major SAN vendors and solid-state startups that target Oracle DB, application environments.

• October 14, 2014 14 Oct'14

  SAP and IBM collaborate to deliver Hana on IBM cloud

  SAP has extended its long-standing partnership with IBM by running SAP Hana Enterprise Cloud on IBM's cloud platform.

• October 14, 2014 14 Oct'14

  EMC adds to the OpenStack buying trend with Cloudscaling move

  EMC has become the latest large vendor to invest in OpenStack technology via an acquisition.

• October 14, 2014 14 Oct'14

  VMware Horizon FLEX brings virtual desktops to Macs, PCs

  VMware will combine existing technologies for Horizon FLEX to deliver offline desktops. But how widespread its use will be remains to be seen.

• October 14, 2014 14 Oct'14

  HP on board with VMware’s EVO:Rail as scale-out future hinted

  HP and HDS join the hardware makers’ list for VMware’s EVO:Rail hyper-converged appliance.

• October 14, 2014 14 Oct'14

  Cyber security failing in execution, says ex-US cyber czar

  Cyber security suffers from a lack of execution, says former White House cyber security coordinator Howard Schmidt.

• October 13, 2014 13 Oct'14

  Mid-market users complain BYOD has not gone far enough

  Users in the mid-market are calling for more flexibility at work according to a report from Advanced Business Solutions.

• October 13, 2014 13 Oct'14

  Survey says! Server pros like the money, seek challenge

  In TechTarget's 2014 Annual Salary Survey, server management pros seem generally satisfied with the dough, but are restless to move up or move on.

• October 13, 2014 13 Oct'14

  Windows 10 could help IT embrace BYOD Windows Phone

  Windows 10 is expected to run on Windows Phone, but is it enough to convince IT and users to buy into the Windows ecosystem?

• October 13, 2014 13 Oct'14

  Brocade SAN switch line gets bigger, more dense

  Brocade adds Fibre Channel SAN extension switch and denser 16 Gbps card for its backbone director switch with an eye on moving data across distances.

• October 13, 2014 13 Oct'14

  HR analytics dominates Vegas conference

  The 2014 HR Technology Conference was dominated by talk of the data-driven organization and workforce analytics, with social recruiting and mobile also in strong evidence.

• October 13, 2014 13 Oct'14

  Salesforce.com launches Wave for self-service data analytics

  Salesforce.com has announced the launch of self-service data analytics technology Wave at its annual Dreamforce event.

• October 10, 2014 10 Oct'14

  IBM player Portal kicks off unified solution approach

  IBM specialist Portal has devised a solution for the education market that brings together all of the skills it has across the business.

• October 10, 2014 10 Oct'14

  Birst teams up with SAP to offer cloud BI on Hana

  SAP is working with cloud BI supplier Birst to provide “instant analytics in the cloud” on the Hana in-memory database platform.

• October 10, 2014 10 Oct'14

  AT&T, Blue Jeans partner for mobile video conferencing

  AT&T and Blue Jeans Network launch joint business video conferencing service for easier mobile access for smartphone and tablet users.

• October 10, 2014 10 Oct'14

  Oracle urges resellers to build on hardware

  Traditional hardware resellers are being encouraged by Oracle to add software and services to their customer pitches.

• October 10, 2014 10 Oct'14

  Symantec follows the HP example and opts to split

  Just a few days after HP hit the headlines for splitting into two companies the same decision has been reached by Symantec.

• October 10, 2014 10 Oct'14

  Can you dump core switches for optical fabric?

  Startup Fiber Mountain says its new data center architecture doubles throughput at half the cost of traditional networks … without a single costly core switch. Will optical fabric power the new data center network?

• October 10, 2014 10 Oct'14

  Extreme Networks acquisition breathes new life into company

  Extreme Networks has just wrapped up its annual EMEA and Latin America conference in Lisbon and with the Enterasys integration complete, the future is looking bright.

• October 09, 2014 09 Oct'14

  The first big SDN data breach is just a matter of time

  As more enterprises opt for software-defined networking implementations, the potential for a major security breach will grow.

• October 09, 2014 09 Oct'14

  More data loss comes from sloppy organizations than hackers

  Over half of data breaches come from organizational errors and internal mismanagement rather than malicious acts by hackers.

• October 09, 2014 09 Oct'14

  HP rivals expected to exploit split move

  IDC is expecting HP's hardware rivals to try and cause unease in the channel after the vendor opted to split its operations into two.

• October 09, 2014 09 Oct'14

  Fortinet identifies pain points to develop channel answers

  Networking security player Fortinet has been talking to customers to find out what keeps them awake at night to provide its channel partners with the right solution.

• October 09, 2014 09 Oct'14

  Druva targets server backup to the cloud with Phoenix

  Endpoint/BYOD backup specialist Druva aims at the remote office market with Phoenix for server backup to the cloud.

• October 09, 2014 09 Oct'14

  WordPress most attacked application

  Websites that run the WordPress content management system are attacked 24% more often than those using other systems.

• October 09, 2014 09 Oct'14

  IDC sounds warning over future PC prospects

  The last few quarters might have been quite good for PC vendors but IDC has warned the situation is unlikely to continue.

• October 09, 2014 09 Oct'14

  EMC exposes big data skills worries

  Most customers acknowledge the importance of IT to drive the business forward but EMC has found many users lack the skills to handle big data.

• October 09, 2014 09 Oct'14

  Verizon drops IaaS focus, looks to private cloud

  Verizon has turned its focus away from IaaS and toward private cloud for enterprise customers, but analysts are still advising caution.

• October 09, 2014 09 Oct'14

  MAM, VPN combine to virtualize corporate apps

  Will IT bite at a new EMM option that combines secure VPN and MAM for mobile security?

• October 09, 2014 09 Oct'14

  Security pros: Get ready for more cloud reboots

  After a Xen hypervisor flaw led several major cloud providers to reboot their host servers, experts say future cloud computing hypervisor security issues will likely cause further service disruptions.

• October 09, 2014 09 Oct'14

  Highfive targets room-based video conferencing market

  Startup Highfive is betting on its low-cost room-based cloud video conferencing service with easy mobile access to win enterprise market share.

• October 09, 2014 09 Oct'14

  Pica8 offers test version of switch software for free

  Pica8 switch software PicOS now supports ONIE bootloader. Pica8 also offers a limited test version for free download onto white-box switches.

• October 09, 2014 09 Oct'14

  Amazon's Zocalo trails Google Drive, SharePoint

  IT pros got the chance to see Amazon Zocalo in action this week and some came away with mixed reactions.

• October 08, 2014 08 Oct'14

  Develop IT infrastructure services to be proud of

  Careful measurement and user focus are the best approaches to tomorrow's IT infrastructure and operations management.

• October 08, 2014 08 Oct'14

  WatchGuard highlights need for multiple security policies

  WatchGuard has warned that a one size fits all security policy is not going to give users the protection they need.

• October 08, 2014 08 Oct'14

  Don't neglect the basics in mobile security policy

  The prevalence of BYOD and cloud means corporate data is exposed to a wider risk landscape than ever before, security experts say. Learn how to make sure your mobile privacy and security policies can withstand modern threats.

• October 08, 2014 08 Oct'14

  Malware being used to steal cash from ATMs

  Criminals are using malware to steal cash from ATMs without debit and credit cards.

• October 08, 2014 08 Oct'14

  The challenges facing HP as it splits in two

  HP is splitting its business in two -- but it is a reaction to the changing way that businesses and consumers buy IT.

• October 08, 2014 08 Oct'14

  Concern builds as new Bash vulnerabilities emerge

  Yahoo says a reported attack was not the result of a Shellshock exploit, but researchers have found new vulnerabilities in SSH key-management and network-attached storage systems.

• October 08, 2014 08 Oct'14

  New WebEx platform features all-in-one conferencing

  Cisco relaunched its WebEx platform to converge Web, video and audio conferencing and erase the technical headaches that come with virtual meetings.

• October 08, 2014 08 Oct'14

  Veeam gives away backup for laptops, desktops

  Veeam Endpoint Backup Free is a departure for the virtual machine backup vendor -- not because it's free, but because it handles physical devices.

• October 07, 2014 07 Oct'14

  Samsung warns of 60% fall in profit

  Quarterly profits at Samsung Electronics are expected to drop by 60% due to increasing competition from smartphone rivals.

• October 07, 2014 07 Oct'14

  CIOs react to HP split: Bring it on already!

  Can the HP breakup deliver enterprise innovation and better service? CIOs say the Silicon Valley legend has nothing to lose by trying.

• October 07, 2014 07 Oct'14

  More jobs to go at HP

  As the details of the plans to split the vendor into two emerged so did details of more job cuts at the firm.

• October 07, 2014 07 Oct'14

  Unisys shares hammered by CEO departure

  Unisys shares took a beating after the firm took the decision to part with its CEO.

• October 07, 2014 07 Oct'14

  SDN still a long way from the mainstream

  There might be a lot of talk about software defined networking but Groundwork has found the majority of customers don't expect to adopt it for a couple of years.

• October 07, 2014 07 Oct'14

  All Olympic systems to be on the cloud by 2018

  Systems underpinning Olympic Game events will be run from the cloud by the time of the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea.

• October 07, 2014 07 Oct'14

  Mesh networks are coming to a house near you

  The Internet of Things is spurring a new architecture for relaying data, referred to by some as mesh networking. But it may not be enterprise-ready yet.

• October 07, 2014 07 Oct'14

  Sophos buys Mojave Networks to tackle BYOD, mobile security

  Sophos looks to strengthen its cloud security offerings for mobile security with the acquisition of Mojave Networks, a mobile security startup.

• October 07, 2014 07 Oct'14

  IBM brings Elastic Storage to Power8, mainframes

  IBM bundles Elastic Storage -- based on GPFS and Watson -- on its Power8 server and supports System z mainframes.

• October 07, 2014 07 Oct'14

  PernixData adds RAM support to flash caching software

  PernixData caches data across pools of flash, RAM, or a combination of the two.

• October 06, 2014 06 Oct'14

  HP splits into two

  HP has split into two companies as it hives off its PC and printer operations away from its enterprise and software operations.

• October 06, 2014 06 Oct'14

  India's data center infrastructure spending to reach $2B in 2015

  India is expected to be the second fastest-growing data center infrastructure market in Asia-Pacific in 2015.

• October 06, 2014 06 Oct'14

  Microsoft to offer cloud services from Indian datacenters in 2015

  Microsoft is planning to offer cloud services – Azure and Office 365 – in India from local datacenters by the end of 2015.

• October 06, 2014 06 Oct'14

  OCR ready to launch second round of HIPAA audits

  Following last year's pilot, the next round of HIPAA health data security audits are expected to start, behind schedule, in early 2015.

• October 03, 2014 03 Oct'14

  Apple security depends on users, hack shows

  Apple has recently come under fire over the security of its customers' data, but the company has done a “nice job” using best practices to secure iTunes backups, according to a security researcher.

• October 03, 2014 03 Oct'14

  With ExtraHop 4.0, everyone in IT can find something to like

  It's not just for network engineers anymore. ExtraHop's platform update makes it easy to create role-based operational analytics dashboards.

• October 03, 2014 03 Oct'14

  JP Morgan breach affects 7 million small businesses

  JPMorgan Chase says a data breach in August affected up to 76 million households and seven million small businesses.

• October 03, 2014 03 Oct'14

  Semiconductor sales to finish the year strongly, says Gartner

  Gartner says worldwide semiconductor sales on are set to total $338 billion in 2014, a 7.2% increase on the previous year.

• October 03, 2014 03 Oct'14

  IPv6 Summit shares some enterprise adoption stories

  The 2014 North American IPv6 Summit showcased the growth of the protocol and shed some light on what enterprises are doing to (finally) adopt it.

• October 03, 2014 03 Oct'14

  Red Hat releases Storage Server 3 software update

  Red Hat's new Storage Server 3 software update adds support for snapshots and hot-button capabilities such as petabyte-scale capacity, SSDs and Hadoop.

• October 03, 2014 03 Oct'14

  Samsung hits 3.2 TB with 3-D V-NAND PCIe card

  Samsung takes aim at high-end data center storage with new SM1715 3-D V-NAND drive designed for greater density, speed and endurance.

• October 03, 2014 03 Oct'14

  Did Shellshock, Heartbleed expose open-source security issues?

  Shellshock and Heartbleed showed how flawed even ubiquitous open-source software components can be, but experts say that doesn't necessarily mean the open-source security model is to blame.

• October 03, 2014 03 Oct'14

  Google lowers cloud pricing -- yes, again

  Google continues to add features and cut costs -- don’t expect either to disrupt the status quo in the cloud market.

• October 03, 2014 03 Oct'14

  Windows 10 tries to make nice with enterprise IT

  Microsoft previews Windows 10 with more enterprise controls, but IT pros need more details before considering a migration.

• October 02, 2014 02 Oct'14

  Symantec NetBackup 5330 doubles capacity of 5230 appliance

  Symantec's NetBackup 5330 scales to 228 TB, nearly double the maximum capacity of its 5230 appliances.

• October 02, 2014 02 Oct'14

  Government cloud adoption trails private industry

  AWS was recently awarded provisional authority to host highly sensitive workloads for the Department of Defense, but the agency hasn't fully embraced public cloud yet.

• October 02, 2014 02 Oct'14

  China targets Hong Kong protestors with Android and iOS spyware

  China is suspected of spying on pro-democracy protestors in Hong Kong using a fake app for Android and iOS smartphones.

• October 02, 2014 02 Oct'14

  DDN launches scale-out NAS GS7K GPFS product bundle

  DataDirect Networks launches the GS7K, a pre-configured GPFS scale-out NAS/parallel file system storage product.

• October 02, 2014 02 Oct'14

  Red Hat Storage Server boosts capacity to 19PB and adds snapshots

  Open source software-defined storage Red Hat Storage Server version three ups capacity to 19PB and adds snapshots.

• October 02, 2014 02 Oct'14

  Palo Alto feeds WildFire intel to Cyvera endpoint security

  Palo Alto starts to integrate network and endpoint security by connecting the WildFire sandbox to its Cyvera acquisition.

• October 01, 2014 01 Oct'14

  DDN appliance embeds IBM GPFS for HPC NAS

  DataDirect Networks packages IBM General Parallel File System with its Storage Fusion Architecture for scale-out NAS storage.

• October 01, 2014 01 Oct'14

  OpenDaylight Helium release is ready for primetime

  The OpenDaylight Project Helium release brings the added security and application networking features that enterprises want.

• October 01, 2014 01 Oct'14

  Telecom operators unify to develop open source NFV

  Rival telecom operators and infrastructure vendors lay down their swords to collaborate in an open source NFV consortium that will develop standards for productizing interoperable technology.

• October 01, 2014 01 Oct'14

  VMware still has a ways to go, reveals Citrix mobile VP

  How does Citrix's Brian Dye see his company withstanding pressure from VMware as it seeks new mobile innovations?

• October 01, 2014 01 Oct'14

  Insurance industry ups BPO spending to access IT expertise

  BPO spending in the insurance sector will be worth about $3.5B in 2015, after years of double-digit outlay increases.

• October 01, 2014 01 Oct'14

  Dell launches new incentive program for partners

  Dell offers juicy rebates and significant discounts to networking partners.

• October 01, 2014 01 Oct'14

  Microsoft skips Windows 9 and jumps to straight to Windows 10

  Who cares what it's called - the Start button is back! Microsoft promises Windows 10 will be the 'most comprehensive operating system' ever created for business customers.

• October 01, 2014 01 Oct'14

  IBM Lenovo complete content migration

  T-Systems has completed the migration of essential content from the systems used by IBM’s x86 business staff to Lenovo’s systems.

• September 30, 2014 30 Sep'14

  IPsoft gives automation platform a face

  IPsoft has launched an artificial intelligence platform following successful pilots with telecoms, finance, energy and media firms.

• September 30, 2014 30 Sep'14

  Broadcom launches new Ethernet switch chip at the cloud

  Broadcom's new Tomahawk Ethernet chips offer super speed, switch-level packet flow analytics and dynamic policy control to enhance cloud network performance, but they've got plenty of competition.

• September 30, 2014 30 Sep'14

  More sharing means simpler cloud adoption

  Enterprise cloud computing has reached the tipping point where shared expertise will simplify deployment models, according to the Open Data Center Alliance.

• September 30, 2014 30 Sep'14

  PernixData adds RAM pools to FVP flash caching software

  Flash caching software maker PernixData adds the ability to create cache pools from server RAM.

• September 30, 2014 30 Sep'14

  Rackpace follows AWS lead with Xen reboot

  Rackspace went a step further than Amazon with its Xen reboot, taking down its entire public cloud region by region to address the bug.

• September 30, 2014 30 Sep'14

  Gridstore goes hyper-converged with Hyper-V storage

  Gridstore adds servers to its storage nodes for Microsoft Hyper-V and becomes the latest hyper-converged vendor.

• September 30, 2014 30 Sep'14

  Data center skills crisis should be channel opportunity

  The growing number of firms that do not have the in-house skills to navigate through a web-based future should be targets for the channel.

• September 30, 2014 30 Sep'14

  Microsoft partners with financial industry to fight cyber crime

  Microsoft is to feed real-time cyber threat intelligence to the global financial services industry to help fight cyber crime.

• September 30, 2014 30 Sep'14

  Apple releases Mac OS X patches for Shellshock Bash bug

  Apple has released security updates for its Mac OS X operating system to protect users from the newly reported Shellshock Bash bug.

• September 29, 2014 29 Sep'14

  Shellshock patches outpaced by new Bash flaws

  Vendors are hurriedly implementing a new patch released over the weekend for the 'Shellshock' Bash vulnerability, but researchers have since found more Bash flaws that will likely need prompt remediation.

• September 29, 2014 29 Sep'14

  Lenovo finally gets to close IBM x86 server deal

  It has taken the best part of ten months but Lenovo is finally able to close the deal for IBM's x86 server division.