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• July 15, 2014 15 Jul'14

  Verizon enters cloud WAF market

  Verizon bolstered its cloud security presence with a new web application firewall. The cloud-based WAF puts the telecom giant in the growing cloud firewall market with Akamai, Imperva and others.

• July 15, 2014 15 Jul'14

  Severity of Active Directory security flaw questioned

  Despite what may be a dangerous new Active Directory "pass the hash" attack variant, Microsoft has downplayed the issue as a technical limitation.

• July 15, 2014 15 Jul'14

  Hammer handed OEM status by Dell

  Hammer has been signed up by Dell as an OEM solutions provider with the aim of driving the vendor deeper into vertical markets.

• July 14, 2014 14 Jul'14

  Channel interest in BI will drive the market

  Research into the business intelligence market from Compris reveals that the channel has a key role to play in the future of the market.

• July 14, 2014 14 Jul'14

  Tech Data adds games to its ESD line-up

  Tech Data has added PC games to the software that retailers can offer via its ESD system.

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• July 14, 2014 14 Jul'14

  CCL appoints CEO and bares its teeth at software industry

  The Campaign for Clear Licensing has appointed a CEO as it looks to grow its influence in the market.

• July 14, 2014 14 Jul'14

  Microsoft talks up cloud and mobility opportunities

  Microsoft has opened its partner conference talking of the importance of taking advantage of the emerging opportunities for the channel in a cloud and mobile first world.

• July 14, 2014 14 Jul'14

  Advanced threat vendors banking on the cloud

  Cloud-based malware analysis is becoming a must-have feature for both established and upstart advanced threat protection vendors.

• July 11, 2014 11 Jul'14

  Microsoft backs cloud rival Google’s Kubernetes project

  Microsoft has joined rival Google to support the Kubernetes open-source project on its Azure platform.

• July 11, 2014 11 Jul'14

  AWS enters mobile services space

  AWS has expanded its capabilities for mobile developers with Amazon Cognito, Amazon Mobile Analytics and a unified mobile software development kit (SDK).

• July 11, 2014 11 Jul'14

  Microsoft acts to block bogus crypto certificates

  Microsoft has acted to block bogus encryption certificates that could be used to attack computers running Windows.

• July 11, 2014 11 Jul'14

  Cloud vendors partner to improve container management

  Red Hat, Microsoft, IBM, others are backing an open-source effort led by Google to develop a containerization management tool for startup Docker.

• July 11, 2014 11 Jul'14

  Xerox strikes back against counterfeiters

  Xerox and fellow OEMs have been busy mounting raids to take counterfeit toners out of the market.

• July 11, 2014 11 Jul'14

  The SDN state of play: first steps for the enterprise

  Software-defined networking experts say telcos will be first to push SDN ahead of enterprises and suggest how CIOs can prepare.

• July 11, 2014 11 Jul'14

  NCS aims at VDI with hyper-converged system

  NCS launches hyper-converged systems with storage, compute and networking to handle a virtual desktop infrastructure with up to 5,000 VMs.

• July 11, 2014 11 Jul'14

  Catalogic CEO Walsh: today's recovery must be instant

  Catalogic CEO Ed Walsh says we're in a third wave of data protection, which requires instant recovery rather than slow tape or expensive disk backups.

• July 11, 2014 11 Jul'14

  AWS takes on third-party monitoring tools with CloudWatch Logs

  Amazon Web Service’s new CloudWatch Logs may give IT pros reason to ditch more expensive third party tools such as Splunk, Loggly and Logstash.

• July 11, 2014 11 Jul'14

  Can cloud storage boost Azure's fortunes?

  Microsoft will continue to blare its Azure cloud next week with several cloud storage announcements. Will users listen this time?

• July 10, 2014 10 Jul'14

  New vSphere beta aims to improve product quality

  The vSphere 2015 beta party is no longer invite-only. VMware pros hope the new program will reduce the amount of bugs in the next version of vSphere.

• July 10, 2014 10 Jul'14

  Panzura and Google give away cloud gateway, 2 TB of capacity

  What's behind the decision of Panzura and Google to give away a cloud controller and 2 TB of cloud capacity?

• July 10, 2014 10 Jul'14

  New Office 365 SMB plans, pricing on the horizon

  Microsoft will replace existing Office 365 SMB plans in October, increasing the user cap for all plans and cutting per-user monthly fees for some plans.

• July 10, 2014 10 Jul'14

  Xirrus offers 802.11ac Wave 2 upgrade path

  Xirrus announced 802.11ac Wave 2 upgradability through its modular Xirrus XR Arrays in anticipation of Wave 2 shipping next year.

• July 10, 2014 10 Jul'14

  U.S. government network hacked by Chinese

  Chinese hackers broke into a network of the US government agency that stores personal information on all federal employees.

• July 10, 2014 10 Jul'14

  PC market continues to show signs of recovery

  After a couple of difficult years of declines the PC market is returning to some stability.

• July 10, 2014 10 Jul'14

  Wearable tech needs to be more fashionable, says Beecham

  A recent paper by firm Beecham Research has found that technology companies do not have the right approach to wearable technology.

• July 10, 2014 10 Jul'14

  IBM pumps $3bn in chip tech research to power next-gen systems

  IBM will invest $3bn over the next five years in the research and development of chip technology to meet cloud needs.

• July 10, 2014 10 Jul'14

  Open-E aims Jupiter DSS software defined storage at enterprise SA

  Open-E adds ZFS functions and scalability to take its DSS storage to the enterprise at a claimed 25% of the cost of storage array products.

• July 10, 2014 10 Jul'14

  BYOD, mobility policies have yet to hit tipping point

  BYOD isn't catching on as quickly as you may think, according to a new CompTIA survey. Even fewer companies have any kind of mobility policy. Here's why.

• July 09, 2014 09 Jul'14

  Firms braced for more cyber attacks as sloppy practices continue

  Firms are expecting to be targeted by cyber criminals but many continue to take a casual approach to sensitive data.

• July 09, 2014 09 Jul'14

  SMB cloud provider Zynstra raises $8.4m in funding

  Hybrid cloud provider Zynstra has raised $8.4m bringing the total amount it has raised in its first year since public launch to over $12m.

• July 09, 2014 09 Jul'14

  Alcatel-Lucent demos 10Gbps internet over copper

  Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent’s R&D arm, has claimed a new world broadband speed record using traditional copper phone lines.

• July 09, 2014 09 Jul'14

  KCS partners with Glasswall to develop email cyber security

  Security partnership between KCS and Glasswall designed to provide the edge in the cyber security war.

• July 09, 2014 09 Jul'14

  EMC sees TwinStrata as a bridge between public, private clouds

  EMC acquired TwinStrata primarily for its ability to serve as a cloud tier for its VMAX enterprise arrays.

• July 08, 2014 08 Jul'14

  EMC adds 5 TB XtremIO flash Starter X-Brick

  EMC XtremIo flash array platform gets a new Starter X-Brick with 5 TB of capacity, a six-node X-Brick cluster on the high end and inline compression.

• July 08, 2014 08 Jul'14

  EMC VMAX embeds backup, cloud services

  EMC VMAX launch includes three new models, multi-core architecture, embedded data protection and a public cloud tier.

• July 08, 2014 08 Jul'14

  Tufin upgrade shines bright light on security policies

  Tufin introduces an upgrade to its security orchestration suite that includes an easy-to-digest visual display of security policies.

• July 08, 2014 08 Jul'14

  EMC XtremIO, VMAX and Isilon get new CPUs and data services

  EMC boosts XtremIO, VMAX and Isilon with Ivy Bridge CPUs and advanced data services including flash array snapshots and slated Hadoop and OpenStack access in scale-out NAS.

• July 08, 2014 08 Jul'14

  EMC upgrades Isilon NAS

  EMC spins out two new Isilon NAS models, including one for Hadoop analytics, and adds flash read cache.

• July 08, 2014 08 Jul'14

  Microsoft fixes dozens of Internet Explorer flaws

  Microsoft's July 2014 Patch Tuesday release addressed two dozen flaws in Internet Explorer. Adobe also provided a critical update for Flash.

• July 08, 2014 08 Jul'14

  Juniper brings next-gen firewalls to next level

  Juniper's latest firewall upgrades aim to simplify security management while adding visibility and policy control around applications and identity.

• July 08, 2014 08 Jul'14

  Dell to open brokerage for partner cloud services

  Dell's upcoming cloud broker service is its latest in a string of cloud strategies. Will this one be the winner?

• July 08, 2014 08 Jul'14

  CA ditches arcserve

  CA opts to divest its arcserve data protection business to focus on other areas.

• July 08, 2014 08 Jul'14

  Top hardware firms join forces on IoT standards

  Top hardware firms join forces to establish secure and reliable connectivity standards for the internet of things.

• July 08, 2014 08 Jul'14

  MicroStrategy announces AWS partnership and demos Usher

  MicroStrategy unveils partnership with Amazon Web Services and a beta programme for Usher password replacement technology.

• July 08, 2014 08 Jul'14

  Samsung profits fall as tablet market shifts

  Samsung’s electronics business has seen weak earnings in the second quarter of 2014, dropping by around 25% from last year.

• July 08, 2014 08 Jul'14

  Easynet swells CIF membership ranks

  Easynet has become the latest industry player to sign up to the Cloud Industry Forum.

• July 08, 2014 08 Jul'14

  Code Spaces hack proves need for cloud MFA

  Following the collapse of an AWS-based cloud hosting provider, experts say enterprises should prioritize use of multifactor authentication.

• July 07, 2014 07 Jul'14

  Spotlight shines on big data platform Spark

  Spark has been getting a lot of attention lately, but is the big data framework ready for enterprise use?

• July 07, 2014 07 Jul'14

  Smart light bulbs get security update

  Smart light bulb maker LIFX has issued a firmware update after security researchers exposed a security weakness.

• July 07, 2014 07 Jul'14

  SME IT staff struggle with soaring user demand

  IT professionals in the SME sector are buckling as trends such as the consumerization of IT and shadow IT push workloads to unmanageable levels

• July 07, 2014 07 Jul'14

  Most NSA spy data on innocent internet users, report shows

  Study shows NSA's internet surveillance collects more data from ordinary internet users than legitimate targets.

• July 07, 2014 07 Jul'14

  Tablet sales to slow in 2014, says Gartner

  Gartner findings show that sales of tablets are set to slow in 2014 as uptake moves into the late adopters phase in mature markets.

• July 03, 2014 03 Jul'14

  Microsoft and Google propose 25Gbps and 50Gbps Ethernet networks

  Technology giants including Microsoft and Google form a consortium to fire up data center networks’ performance for cloud-scale infrastructure.

• July 03, 2014 03 Jul'14

  Wearable technology creates new privacy issues for employers

  Wearable technology is creating new privacy headaches for employers, a leading law firm has warned.

• July 03, 2014 03 Jul'14

  Integrating intelligence key to better security, says FireEye

  Security threat intelligence is vital, but challenging to implement, says FireEye.

• July 03, 2014 03 Jul'14

  SCCM tools improve WAN, IT asset management

  Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager tools fit the bill for small shops, but enterprises may have to spring for third-party SCCM add-ons.

• July 03, 2014 03 Jul'14

  Locking down mobile apps in healthcare BYOD

  Internal research from Fiberlink Communications on the most popular healthcare apps offers insight into what users value most in an application.

• July 03, 2014 03 Jul'14

  Seagate, Skyera use flash to speed backup and restores

  Skyera says it can speed restores of off-site and cloud backup using its flash with Seagate's EVault cloud backup software.

• July 03, 2014 03 Jul'14

  Execs: Include IT on tech purchasing decisions

  IT teams and business leaders must work toward making IT purchasing decisions together to avoid security vulnerabilities and higher costs.

• July 02, 2014 02 Jul'14

  Lenovo still aiming for x86 deal to be wrapped up this year

  Even with delays possible as U.S. authorities review the x86 server deal between IBM and Lenovo the Chinese vendor expects it to be completed in 2014.

• July 02, 2014 02 Jul'14

  Microsoft under fire over disruptive anti-crime operation

  Microsoft has come under fire after an operation aimed at taking down a criminal botnet disrupted traffic to millions of legitimate servers.

• July 02, 2014 02 Jul'14

  FireEye warns of new breed of Android malware

  Security researchers have discovered a new breed of mobile banking Android malware.

• July 02, 2014 02 Jul'14

  Netflix Security Monkey enlists in Simian Army

  AWS shops say new open source software from Netflix will go a long way to help customers manage their part of the cloud security burden.

• July 02, 2014 02 Jul'14

  ISPs take legal action against GCHQ over mass surveillance

  Six global internet service providers (ISPs) have filed a legal complaint calling for a halt to GCHQ’s use of network infrastructure for surveillance.

• July 02, 2014 02 Jul'14

  Imation urges more support from channel for Windows to Go

  The channel could face missing out on an opportunity as the market for Windows To Go starts to take off.

• July 02, 2014 02 Jul'14

  AWS EC2 instances hit new pricing low

  New T2 line of instances replaces the T1.micro instance as well as two members of the M1 line, at a little over half the cost.

• July 02, 2014 02 Jul'14

  OpenSSL establishes security roadmap

  Heartbleed exposed a number of long-standing issues at OpenSSL, but the open source encryption project has laid out plans to improve the organization.

• July 02, 2014 02 Jul'14

  Cisco buys startup to improve browser-based collaboration

  Cisco has acquired real-time collaboration startup Assemblage to help extend Cisco collaboration applications into the browser, without plugins.

• July 01, 2014 01 Jul'14

  Website exposes XSS flaws at high-profile firms

  A new online archive is allowing researchers to anonymously submit and expose cross-site scripting vulnerabilities uncovered across the Web.

• July 01, 2014 01 Jul'14

  Industrial control systems increasingly under attack

  Targeted attacks on industrial control systems take place on a regular and increasing basis, says Kaspersky Lab.

• July 01, 2014 01 Jul'14

  Meru SDN WLAN may replace unified wireless fabric

  Meru's newly OpenFlow-certified SDN WLAN could remove the need for unified wireless fabrics, since one controller can manage the entire infrastructure.

• July 01, 2014 01 Jul'14

  Nimboxx develops Atomic Unit hyper-converged storage

  Nimboxx hyper-convergence software enables VM backup and instances of hybrid cloud while putting storage, network and compute in one box.

• July 01, 2014 01 Jul'14

  Scality Ring upgrade improves data protection, security

  Scality Ring upgrade includes OpenStack Swift and Cinder support, improved erasure coding for clusters and Kerberos authentication.

• July 01, 2014 01 Jul'14

  Motorola targets hospitality with new 802.11ac access points

  Three new Motorola access points, among the market's smallest gigabit Wi-Fi access points, target the aesthetically-conscious hospitality vertical.

• July 01, 2014 01 Jul'14

  PLUMgrid plugs its overlay into OpenStack networking

  The PLUMgrid OpenStack Networking Suite enables a scalable, high-performance, encrypted cloud network overlay.

• July 01, 2014 01 Jul'14

  Connected cars standard by end of 2018

  Juniper Research study finds integrated in-vehicle connectivity and apps will become standard in new cars by the end of 2018.

• June 30, 2014 30 Jun'14

  Tech Data shuffles management pack

  Tech Data has revealed some changes to its TDAzlan management team.

• June 30, 2014 30 Jun'14

  The Azure vs. AWS battle for cloud supremacy

  IT pros may find it tough to compare AWS and Azure. We’ve got you covered, as we decode their free and paid plans, as well as costs, SLAs, support and more.

• June 30, 2014 30 Jun'14

  Contact center challenge: A unified communications business case

  This Q&A discusses how communications technology has evolved in the contact center and why a business case for unified communications is paramount.

• June 30, 2014 30 Jun'14

  Internet of Things already stretching networks to capacity

  A new study reveals the scale of the challenges facing network managers as the Internet of Things becomes a reality.

• June 30, 2014 30 Jun'14

  Google targets enterprise with big data cloud service

  Google raised the stakes in big data cloud services for enterprise IT shops this week with Cloud Dataflow -- a successor to MapReduce.

• June 30, 2014 30 Jun'14

  Software-defined networking: Huge security risk

  A Gartner analyst says SDN security issues abound because of lacking security controls, little interoperability and shaky management features.

• June 27, 2014 27 Jun'14

  F-Secure: Data security cloud concerns are ‘misplaced’

  Many users might continue to feel uneasy about putting their data in the cloud but F-Secure believes that it can be safer to put data into a hosted environment.

• June 27, 2014 27 Jun'14

  Workers will find a way to use own tech, says Samsung

  The trend of blending work and home life is exposing companies to “hired hackers” who use their own tech despite restrictions by their employer.

• June 27, 2014 27 Jun'14

  Teradata offers new R-based system

  Analytics vendors like the commercial potential of R. Teradata is set to become the latest to make a play for users of this popular open-source tool.

• June 27, 2014 27 Jun'14

  Pluribus responds to top-of-rack switch commoditization

  Startup Pluribus outsources manufacturing of its top-of-rack switch; it may embrace the bare-metal switch approach.

• June 27, 2014 27 Jun'14

  Red Hat makes another cloud move

  Red Hat once again looks to productize an open source platform. This time it turns to OpenStack, but the jury is still out on how it will fare in the cloud.

• June 27, 2014 27 Jun'14

  CloudPhysics releases Storage Analytics

  CloudPhysics' storage suite troubleshoots storage contention on VMware VMs, predicting when disks will fail and how much caching will help.

• June 27, 2014 27 Jun'14

  Oracle makes ZFS Storage appliances cloud-friendly

  Oracle makes it easier for ZFS Storage Appliance customers to provision and orchestrate cloud storage with the addition of OpenStack Cinder drivers.

• June 27, 2014 27 Jun'14

  Unitrends launches DR with PHD Virtual technology

  Unitrends combines its on-premises backup and off-site replication with DR testing acquired from PHD Virtual for disaster recovery as a service.

• June 27, 2014 27 Jun'14

  Android L to include enterprise IT features

  Google has finally made good on long-awaited Android enterprise features. But skepticism remains on how the tech giant will implement the changes.

• June 27, 2014 27 Jun'14

  Microsoft boosts OneDrive storage for Office 365 users

  IT pros concerned about shrinking cloud storage for Office 365 have gotten a 1TB lifeline from Microsoft. One major city stands to benefit through a 100,000-user migration.

• June 27, 2014 27 Jun'14

  Half of network equipment aging or obsolete, survey finds

  Dimension Data finds 51% of network devices near the end of their life as buyers take cautious approach to hardware refreshes.

• June 27, 2014 27 Jun'14

  Avnet adds SoftLayer to its cloud portfolio

  Avnet has built on a long relationship with IBM inking a distribution agreement with SoftLayer.

• June 27, 2014 27 Jun'14

  The psychology of user security training

  A Gartner analyst offers some psychology tips to help security pros get inside users' heads and eliminate bad security behaviors.

• June 27, 2014 27 Jun'14

  AWS certifications call for real-world training

  Real-world experience with Amazon's cloud services is the best prep for AWS certs, and experience trumps passing grades for IT employers.

• June 27, 2014 27 Jun'14

  Verizon hit by German fears of US snooping

  The German government has terminated a contract with Verizon over concerns of snooping by the National Security Agency (NSA).

• June 27, 2014 27 Jun'14

  Templeton plans to stay on as Citrix CEO

  Having indicated that he would retire this year Mark Templeton has decided to stay at the helm at Citrix.

• June 27, 2014 27 Jun'14

  Riverbed APM: More root cause analysis, mobile insight

  The rebranded Riverbed APM portfolio now includes SteelCentral AppInternals 9.0 with expanded mobile visibility and analytics capabilities.

• June 26, 2014 26 Jun'14

  Apple makes IT progress in iOS 8, but it's not there yet

  Apple added some noteworthy enterprise IT features into iOS 8, but the new capabilities still don't provide all of the functions businesses need to integrate iPhones and iPads into Windows environments.