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October 25, 2016 25 Oct'16
Hitachi adds new VSP models, boosts QoS, data reduction

Hitachi added new VSP all-flash array and hybrid array models and updated the operating system with adaptive data reduction, enhanced quality of service and cloud tiering.
October 25, 2016 25 Oct'16
Avaya Equinox gives Aura Platform a fresh look

The new Equinox software client for the Avaya Aura Platform delivers UC services to mobile devices, desktops and the Chrome web browser.
October 25, 2016 25 Oct'16
AI set to replace traditional IT administrators

Demand for higher levels of availability will lead to increased use of automation. Over time, many IT roles will be taken over by intelligent algorithms.
October 25, 2016 25 Oct'16
Capriza Falcon lets IT skip building apps from scratch

Capriza identified the most common approval workflows that businesses need in their mobile apps, and offers pre-made apps to make mobilizing those processes easier.
October 24, 2016 24 Oct'16
Dyn DNS DDoS attacks raise ire and questions

Users, companies suffer after Dyn DNS DDoS attacks disrupt access to top sites; links to Mirai botnet raise still more questions as Dyn mops up.
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October 24, 2016 24 Oct'16
Backup vendor Acronis launches SDS cloud product

Acronis, known for its backup and recovery offerings, has unveiled a software-defined storage product to the public for the first time, including blockchain integration.
October 24, 2016 24 Oct'16
Dyn DDoS attack highlights vulnerability of global internet

Last week’s DDoS attack on DNS firm Dyn has highlighted both the vulnerability of the world’s internet infrastructure, and the dangers of leaving internet of things devices unsecured.
October 21, 2016 21 Oct'16
Dell-EMC merger: Future prospects for Virtustream, VMware, Pivotal

At Dell EMC World, executive leaders from Virtustream, VMware and Pivotal described how the Dell-EMC merger has affected their companies; more channel news from the week.
October 21, 2016 21 Oct'16
Partnering with the Alibaba Cloud

Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, is reaching out to partners such as Datapipe.
October 21, 2016 21 Oct'16
Lay of the land: What's coming for converged systems?

Industry watchers hash out the future of converged systems, the best use cases for enterprise workloads and how IT pros should plan ahead for changes in the market.
October 21, 2016 21 Oct'16
Phishing scheme by DNC hackers also hit Clinton campaign

Malicious links from the DNC hacker group were responsible for account takeovers and leaked emails from the Clinton campaign chairman and Colin Powell.
October 21, 2016 21 Oct'16
Dyn copes with series of DNS DDoS attacks

At least two DNS DDoS attacks on Dyn are disrupting access to many popular websites, users and companies on the Eastern U.S. are impacted.
October 21, 2016 21 Oct'16
Google Cloud Storage gets cheaper and colder

Google is revamping its Cloud Storage services to woo users and challenge AWS with price cuts, lifecycle management and cold storage with quicker retrieval times than Amazon Glacier.
October 21, 2016 21 Oct'16
Companies moving slowly on Privacy Shield certification

After a slow start, some U.S. companies are starting to address the questions and challenges of EU-U.S. Privacy Shield certification. But most haven't started the process.
October 20, 2016 20 Oct'16
Ransomware infections: Channel toils to defend besieged customers

Channel partners are working with customers on ransomware defense strategies and risk mitigation amid a rising tide of costly and disruptive infections.
October 20, 2016 20 Oct'16
VMware aims to please with cheaper workspace suite

A more affordable Workspace One bundle with less advanced management capabilities could appease IT pros who view workspace suites as too pricey.
October 20, 2016 20 Oct'16
Cisco buys Worklife to improve Spark team meetings

Cisco buys startup Worklife to fold its team-meeting software into Spark. Worklife provides tools for creating and sharing tasks, agendas and meeting notes.
October 20, 2016 20 Oct'16
Dell EMC execs: Vblocks, XC Series remain in lineup

Dell EMC reinforced its commitment to sell Cisco products in Vblocks and Nutanix-based XC Series hyper-convergence, even if those vendors compete with Dell and EMC products.
October 20, 2016 20 Oct'16
Citrix has better than expected third quarter

Citrix's new streamlined focus on core areas of the business seems to be paying off, as the company beats Wall Street's expectations.
October 20, 2016 20 Oct'16
Dell EMC broadens HCI scope, targeting ODM cracks

Adding Dell servers to its hyper-converged infrastructure lineup boosts scalability and reliability for more use cases, says Dell EMC, but some customers may not be easily swayed.
October 19, 2016 19 Oct'16
Three questions on the Facebook Workplace Partner Program

The Workplace Partner Program is Facebook's channel mechanism for supporting the adoption of its new collaboration platform for enterprises.
October 19, 2016 19 Oct'16
New Dell partner program to address deal protection concerns

At the Global Partner Summit, Dell EMC channel chief John Byrne showcased features of the new partner program and addressed concerns about Dell's deal protection practices.
October 19, 2016 19 Oct'16
Intel chip flaw can make attacks more dangerous

Researchers devised an exploit of an Intel chip flaw that allows an adversary to bypass ASLR protection and potentially boost the effectiveness of an attack on any platform.
October 19, 2016 19 Oct'16
Ten strategic trends to keep in your sights

Forward-thinking IT pros are peering around the corner at the IT trends they'll need to plan around in the coming year. Here's the short list -- how ready are you?
October 19, 2016 19 Oct'16
Dell EMC World: Isilon All-Flash set for 2017 launch

Dell EMC shows off Isilon All-Flash scale-out NAS array at first Dell EMC World; also extends EMC management and data protection to Compellent arrays.
October 19, 2016 19 Oct'16
Cisco adds 100 GbE to storage networking

Cisco storage networking announced upgrades that include Ethernet boosts for FCIP and FCoE, but it's decided to hold off on shipping 32 GbE Fibre Channel.
October 19, 2016 19 Oct'16
WebSphere bug gets responsible disclosure, sort of

IBM asks, and researcher pulls proof of concept code from a coordinated vulnerability disclosure, internet explodes.
October 18, 2016 18 Oct'16
VMware VSAN 6.5 supports containers and physical servers via iSCSI

VMware Virtual SAN now supports containers with persistent storage and allows physical server storage access to its shared pool of capacity via the iSCSI SAN protocol.
October 18, 2016 18 Oct'16
These 10 trends in IT are rewriting the rules: Are you prepared?

The rapid evolution of data centers and cloud hinges on these 10 key IT trends, from hybrid infrastructures to IoT and smartly managing capacity -- and new IT roles to manage it all.
October 18, 2016 18 Oct'16
VMware-AWS hybrid cloud challenges OpenStack

The VMware-AWS hybrid cloud partnership pressures OpenStack supporters to simplify deployment of the open source cloud platform in the enterprise.
October 18, 2016 18 Oct'16
IBM Q3 results suggest firm’s big cloud bets are paying off

IBM posted flat revenue figures for third quarter overall, despite solid growth generated by its big data, cloud and artificial intelligence activities
October 18, 2016 18 Oct'16
VMworld 2016: VMware progresses its hybrid strategy

Following its partnership with AWS, VMware is honing its hybrid strategy with a suite of tools to manage workloads accros private and public clouds
October 17, 2016 17 Oct'16
Caringo, Dell deliver an object storage server cluster for Swarm

Caringo previously sold Swarm as software-only object storage, but now, Dell packages Swarm 9 as a hardware option that clusters 288 TB of usable storage.
October 17, 2016 17 Oct'16
Companies take different paths with SAP performance review software

New York Life, SRAM and TranSystems configured SAP SuccessFactors performance management software to fit individual systems for evaluating employees.
October 17, 2016 17 Oct'16
Lenovo partners with Nimble to deliver next-gen data center

Lenovo makes a strong play for data center domination with new all flash converged infrastructure solution
October 17, 2016 17 Oct'16
Business and GDPR to drive consumer identity projects

Business demand for consumer identity management capability is growing to enable new business models, improve customer engagement and ensure General Data Protection Regulation compliance, says KuppingerCole
October 14, 2016 14 Oct'16
Pivot3 HCI offering relies on channel partnership strategy

Pivot3's newly launched Edge Office HCI offering for remote offices and branch offices will see partners heavily involved in the sales process; more news from the week.
October 14, 2016 14 Oct'16
Odinaff banking Trojan resembles Carbanak

The Odinaff banking Trojan has been found targeting the SWIFT messaging system at financial institutions around the world and may have links to the infamous Carbanak group.
October 14, 2016 14 Oct'16
Pork Explosion dangerous but maybe not widespread

The Pork Explosion flaw in the app bootloader provided by Foxconn creates an Android backdoor which could give an attacker dangerous levels of access.
October 14, 2016 14 Oct'16
Windows 10 update aims to stop crashes

In an update to the OS next year, Microsoft looks to stop Windows 10 from crashing, prevent restarts from automatic updates and provide more details in Task Manager.
October 14, 2016 14 Oct'16
Quantum aims tape at large unstructured data stores

Quantum's unstructured data archiving platform consists of Scalar LTO tape libraries and StorNext data management. The vendor aims to make tape more efficient across multi-tiers.
October 14, 2016 14 Oct'16
VMware and Amazon partnership a response to IT reality

In a move focused squarely on enterprise customers, VMware and Amazon are partnering to shift on-premises vSphere workloads to AWS bare metal.
October 14, 2016 14 Oct'16
HP Inc. makes job cuts to focus on sustainable business growth

HP Inc. reveals the challenges it faces in 2017 with PCs, printers and the 3D printing opportunity.
October 14, 2016 14 Oct'16
GobalSign certificate revocation list fouls websites

Attempting to tidy its root certificates, a mis-issued GlobalSign certificate revocation list left website owners scrambling to address cert errors, restore safe browsing icons.
October 13, 2016 13 Oct'16
KodaCloud targets SMBs with Wi-Fi subscription service

Startup KodaCloud is providing access points and Wi-Fi management for a monthly fee. The service is aimed at small and medium-sized businesses.
October 13, 2016 13 Oct'16
Akamai discovers SSH bug used to enslave IoT devices

Akamai researchers discovered how unknown threat actors are using an SSH flaw to secretly gain control of IoT devices and turn them into proxies for malicious traffic.
October 13, 2016 13 Oct'16
Encryption trapdoors could be lurking in crypto keys

Academic researchers show how to place undetectable encryption backdoors in cryptographic keys and passively decrypt data, which could undermine confidence in certain algorithms.
October 13, 2016 13 Oct'16
Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct clusters local storage

Windows Server 2016 release makes Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct available to data centers. Highlights include heightened data reduction, HCI, replication and tiering.
October 13, 2016 13 Oct'16
Lifesize launches video system for huddle rooms

The burgeoning market for huddle rooms, or small meeting spaces, is seeing a diverse set of products that aim to enrich the video collaboration experience.
October 13, 2016 13 Oct'16
MobileIron bridges Windows 10's EMM gap

MobileIron Bridge, a new add-on service, expands IT's Windows 10 application deployment options. Admins can now deploy and manage legacy applications via enterprise mobility management.
October 13, 2016 13 Oct'16
IBM's SoftLayer focus woos more cloud-ready customers

Three years after its purchase of SoftLayer, IBM has finally coalesced its cloud computing strategy around the cloud platform and is winning new IT fans.
October 12, 2016 12 Oct'16
Comparing VMware vs. OpenStack, some users choose union

IT shops comfortable with vSphere may be happier staying home when comparing VMware vs. OpenStack to put together legacy and next-generation applications.
October 12, 2016 12 Oct'16
Firms face uphill battle for GDPR compliance

With EU's new privacy regulation set to take effect in May 2018, GDPR compliance may be hampered by lack of planning and awareness, Dell research finds.
October 12, 2016 12 Oct'16
Facebook Workplace lacks key enterprise features

Facebook's enterprise social network, Workplace, lacks integration with popular business applications and protections for corporate data.
October 12, 2016 12 Oct'16
Russian election tampering may draw U.S. response

U.S. intelligence agencies officially attributed potential election tampering activity to government-led Russian hackers and the White House said it is considering a proportional response.
October 12, 2016 12 Oct'16
Citrix improves routing in SD-WAN product

Banks and medical centers can use the advanced routing features in Citrix's NetScaler SD-WAN to protect traffic to critical applications.
October 12, 2016 12 Oct'16
Verizon, CenturyLink close to selling colocation data centers

Reports suggest both CenturyLink and Verizon could be on the cusp of off-loading their colocation assets, after months of speculation.
October 12, 2016 12 Oct'16
CompTIA: Industry must do more to increase diversity

The CEO of CompTIA has urged the channel to do more to increase diversity in the industry.
October 12, 2016 12 Oct'16
PC market enters longest period of decline since records began

PC shipments across the globe enter an unprecedented period of decline, Gartner reveals.
October 11, 2016 11 Oct'16
Hyper-converged Pivot3 storage goes down market

Edge Office is the new Pivot3 storage for hyper-convergence at midsize companies and distributed enterprises. Modular configurations range from 1.6 TB to 6.4 TB per node.
October 11, 2016 11 Oct'16
Samsung kills off Galaxy Note 7

A day after temporarily suspending production after a spate of battery fires, Samsung finally pulls the plug on its Galaxy Note 7 device.
October 11, 2016 11 Oct'16
EMC launches VMAX 250F, upgrades Unity flash arrays

Dell EMC's first major product launch since the merger focuses on flash with VMAX 250F, inline compression and nondisruptive flash upgrades for VMAX and Unity.
October 10, 2016 10 Oct'16
Facebook partner program supports Workplace launch

Facebook launched a partner program to support the adoption of its Workplace collaboration offering, signing up professional services firms and IT service providers.
October 10, 2016 10 Oct'16
Armor cloud partnership highlights compliance opportunity for MSPs

A new alliance between Armor cloud security and Cogent Co. speaks to channel opportunities around compliance, according to Armor's chief of operations and security.
October 10, 2016 10 Oct'16
VIPRE seeks partners for ransomware prevention product

Channel partners are being tapped to resell VIPRE Internet Security Pro Small Office, an antivirus protection offering, to the small office and home office market.
October 10, 2016 10 Oct'16
Facebook debuts Workplace

Facebook's Workplace promises to put collaboration in the hands of all employees, from sailors and sales clerks to barkeeps, who can use their mobile devices to access the platform.
October 07, 2016 07 Oct'16
New program arms Infrascale partners for DRaaS opportunities

Infrascale, a cloud backup and disaster recovery vendor, revealed a new three-tiered program for its partner network; other channel news from the week.
October 07, 2016 07 Oct'16
Commvault CEO focuses on data management

Commvault CEO Bob Hammer talks about transforming his company into a full-scale data management vendor and how its technology is ahead of competitors.
October 07, 2016 07 Oct'16
Do customers care about HCI vendors' numbers? Yes and no

So what if many top vendors in the hyper-converged infrastructure market aren't profitable? Customers mostly care whether the technology is useful for their data centers.
October 07, 2016 07 Oct'16
Avaya to provide cloud-based WLAN management

Avaya plans to offer in the first half of next year cloud-based management for its access switches and WLAN 9100 access points.
October 06, 2016 06 Oct'16
AT&T taps VeloCloud for SD-WAN managed service

AT&T plans to offer the VeloCloud SD-WAN service. The cloud-based offering will join other managed network services in AT&T FlexWare portfolio.
October 06, 2016 06 Oct'16
Commvault plans to 'Go' in new direction

At Commvault's first user conference, the vendor revealed its roadmap to expand from data protection into full data management on premises and in the cloud.
October 06, 2016 06 Oct'16
Deloitte pegs HR technology trends disrupting business

A new report by Deloitte Consulting lists nine trends reinventing the HR software market, including people analytics, continuous performance management and employee engagement.
October 06, 2016 06 Oct'16
VMware Workspace One turns heads

Organizations that want to simplify device management and access are interested in workspace suites, such as VMware Workspace One.
October 06, 2016 06 Oct'16
Yahoo's FISA secret surveillance comes under question

A report claims Yahoo built custom software under order of the U.S. government to perform secret surveillance on all incoming emails, though questions about the program remain.
October 06, 2016 06 Oct'16
Arcserve UDP appliance line expands with 8000 series

Data protection vendor moves up market with the 8000 Series Arcserve UDP appliance hardware. The 8000 models scale from 4 TB to 80 TB raw storage before source-side deduplication.
October 05, 2016 05 Oct'16
Azure price cuts lower bar for entry for newcomers

The latest Azure price cuts may not mean much to those using higher-level services, but they're an incentive for on-premises users Microsoft wants to entice to the cloud.
October 05, 2016 05 Oct'16
Infinidat 'infiniboxes' compression, native iSCSI

Infinidat claims InfiniBox can scale to 5 PB effective capacity in a 42U array and has 'carrier-grade' iSCSI in its enterprise SAN array; it still revolves around spinning disk.
October 05, 2016 05 Oct'16
Juniper counters Cisco advanced malware protection

Juniper has introduced a cloud-based malware detection service called Sky ATP that competes with Cisco AMP. Both products secure the network access layer.
October 05, 2016 05 Oct'16
Dell promises the best of both worlds with unified program

Michael Dell has pledged that the forthcoming Dell Technologies channel partner program will combine the best of both Dell and EMC’s former schemes.
October 04, 2016 04 Oct'16
Yammer integrates with Office 365 Groups

Yammer's integration with Office 365 Groups reveals Microsoft's collaboration roadmap, but raises questions for on-premises Office 365 users.
October 04, 2016 04 Oct'16
Salesforce stakes claim for AI baked into cloud CRM apps

Salesforce inaugurates Dreamforce 2016 by restating a claim to bring artificial intelligence to bear on its customer relationship management cloud-delivered software.
October 04, 2016 04 Oct'16
Mirai IoT botnet malware released to the public

The IoT botnet malware code Mirai used in the massive DDoS attack on Brian Krebs' website has been released to the public and highlights a problem of using default passwords.
October 04, 2016 04 Oct'16
Hedvig CEO: 'Scale-up systems are practically dead'

Storage startup Hedvig's CEO envisions self-service, virtualized, distributed storage running on commodity hardware across customer-run data centers and public clouds.
October 04, 2016 04 Oct'16
DNS monitoring can break Tor anonymity

Researchers found a way to use DNS monitoring to deanonymize Tor users by enhancing the effectiveness of fingerprinting attacks.
October 04, 2016 04 Oct'16
JPEG 2000 parser flaw enables remote code execution

Cisco Talos discovered a severe flaw in the JPEG 2000 image file format parser, which is often used in PDF documents, that could allow remote code execution on affected systems.
October 03, 2016 03 Oct'16
Workday touts new products, partnership with Microsoft

At the vendor's annual user conference, Workday CEO Aneel Bhusri attacked Oracle and SAP, unveiled a partnership with Microsoft and raved about a budgeting product for CFOs.
October 03, 2016 03 Oct'16
Microsoft partners lend a hand to Skype for Business

Crestron, Logitech and Polycom have introduced product support for Skype for Business meetings that make the UC service a better enterprise option.
October 03, 2016 03 Oct'16
Kaleao KMAX seeks to strong-ARM hyper-convergence

Kaleao gambles that customers will buy its KMAX hyper-convergence; it favors 64-bit ARM processors and microvisors, rather than x86 hardware and traditional hypervisors.
October 03, 2016 03 Oct'16
SAP makes big IoT investment for next five years

SAP announces a $2.2 billion IoT investment, with industry-specific applications, acquisitions and innovation labs to develop IoT applications and grow its ecosystem.
September 30, 2016 30 Sep'16
New SUSE partner program offers product training, rebates

SUSE's new channel program offers rebates of up to 30% to partners who train and certify their sales and engineering personnel on the company's products; more news from the week.
September 30, 2016 30 Sep'16
Cloud partners: G Suite update heralds a Google enterprise push

Google's rebranding efforts make a strong appeal to the enterprise and could reposition the company as a major force in the market, according to cloud partners.
September 30, 2016 30 Sep'16
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This month's channel news quiz takes a look at a range of topics, including cybersecurity, cloud computing, distribution, partner conferences and the copier market.
September 29, 2016 29 Sep'16
Oracle, AWS and the fight for your databases

Oracle and AWS continue to fight over which is the better environment for running database workloads in the cloud, but for many IT shops it's not an either-or decision.
September 29, 2016 29 Sep'16
Mozilla finds certificate authority WoSign less than trustworthy

Citing a long list of transgressions, Mozilla prepares to sanction Chinese certificate authority WoSign by removing it from its list of trusted certificate issuers.
September 29, 2016 29 Sep'16
Yahoo sued and may be investigated over breach

The Yahoo breach was the largest in history and the fallout is widespread, including a lawsuit, possible SEC investigation and questions about Yahoo's breach detection and response.
September 29, 2016 29 Sep'16
Latest IEEE standard extends life of CAT5e, CAT6 cables

The latest IEEE Ethernet standard gets more life out of CAT5e and CAT6 cables by raising bandwidth from 1 Gbps to as much as 5 Gbps.
September 29, 2016 29 Sep'16
Datera drives elastic data storage fabric around block

Datera Elastic Data Fabric qualifies Dell PowerEdge servers, adds all-flash nodes, and increases scaling to 50 nodes and 5 PB raw capacity per cluster.
September 29, 2016 29 Sep'16
Autotask boss talks of growth as the MSP market expands

Autotask’s CEO on the company’s growth and how MSPs are handling disruption to their businesses.
September 29, 2016 29 Sep'16
MobileIron's James Plouffe on mobile threats, security

A new report from MobileIron shows enterprises aren't taking mobile threats seriously enough. MobileIron's James Plouffe explains what that is and what's to be done about it.

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