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• October 28, 2016 28 Oct'16

  Mozilla drops WoSign, adds TLS 1.3

  Mozilla boots WoSign as trusted certificate authority for backdating SHA-1 certs and other controversial behavior, and prepares to add default support for TLS 1.3 in 2017.

• October 28, 2016 28 Oct'16

  Windows continues to dominate macOS in the enterprise

  Windows PCs continue to outpace Macs in business. Cost, application options and Apple's desktop and laptop strategy are all issues.

• October 28, 2016 28 Oct'16

  Why enterprises must embrace SDN and DevOps

  Enterprises need to prepare networking team members for SDN and DevOps, as the industry continues to change, Verizon and Yahoo said at the ONUG fall conference.

• October 28, 2016 28 Oct'16

  AtomBombing attack affects all versions of Windows

  A new attack, called AtomBombing, allows malicious code injection into atom tables by a threat actor. And, while all versions of Windows are vulnerable to attack, no patch will fix the flaw.

• October 28, 2016 28 Oct'16

  New privacy rules for ISPs focus on user data protection

  The FCC passed new ISP privacy rules that increase transparency from broadband providers and mandate that customers must opt-in before ISPs can use or share sensitive user data.

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• October 27, 2016 27 Oct'16

  PowWow acquires StarMobile to boost SmartUX platform

  One of the last app refactoring vendors in a shrinking market, PowWow Mobile will acquire StarMobile. IT shops looking to modernize legacy apps can benefit from the combined platforms.

• October 27, 2016 27 Oct'16

  Google finds XNU kernel flaw in iOS and macOS

  An XNU kernel vulnerability in iOS and macOS was patched after being reported by Google's Project Zero. And, hackers at Pwn2Own 2016 cracked the Nexus 6P and iPhone 6S.

• October 27, 2016 27 Oct'16

  WLAN vendors pitching cost-cutting multi-device APs

  Vendors Extreme Networks and Mist are promoting Wi-Fi APs that include services delivered today by other devices on the wireless network. The new products are unique in the market, but experts expect that to change.

• October 27, 2016 27 Oct'16

  Adobe patching bug that has Windows exploit

  Surprise! It's time, again, for another critical Adobe Flash patch to fix a remote code execution vulnerability reported by the Google Threat Analysis Group.

• October 27, 2016 27 Oct'16

  Channel remains undecided on cloud, says CompTIA

  Research from CompTIA suggests that after gobbling up the cloud dream, the channel may be undergoing a period of buyers' remorse.

• October 27, 2016 27 Oct'16

  Mobile apps for IT administration on the rise

  Software vendors are increasingly offering admin-facing mobile apps, allowing IT to use their mobile devices to remotely manage users. Take ADManager Plus for Active Directory management, for example.

• October 26, 2016 26 Oct'16

  SaaS consulting shakeout: Appirio deal signals end of era

  Wipro's pending purchase of Appirio, a cloud services firm, would further reduce the number of independent cloud consultancies in a rapidly consolidating market.

• October 26, 2016 26 Oct'16

  Alluxio offers in-memory big data storage alternative

  Open source Alluxio is an in-memory virtual distributed storage system that allows data to be shared across applications and storage systems at memory speed.

• October 26, 2016 26 Oct'16

  State actor likely ruled out in Dyn DNS DDoS attack

  As the dust settles around the Dyn DNS DDoS attack, the perpetrator is most likely not a state actor, according to the director of national intelligence and Flashpoint.

• October 26, 2016 26 Oct'16

  Igneous Systems offers nano servers with IaaS

  Igneous Systems offers IaaS that uses nano servers to store data on- premises and is managed by the vendor remotely on a cloud subscription basis.

• October 26, 2016 26 Oct'16

  Exhibitors at VMworld claim they’re setting our knowledge free

  They’re selling liberty, fraternity and open IT -- but which would you trust if you were a buyer?

• October 26, 2016 26 Oct'16

  U.S. judge orders FBI to answer VEP questions

  A U.S. district judge grants the defendants in a child porn case the right to know whether the FBI used the vulnerabilities equities process before the hack of the Playpen Tor hidden service site.

• October 26, 2016 26 Oct'16

  Apple highlights record services revenue as iPhone sales fall

  For a second quarter in a row, Apple plays up growing services revenues as iPhone sales continue to fall.

• October 25, 2016 25 Oct'16

  New Puppet CEO pulls IT automation strings

  Puppet's CEO, brought on in April 2016 following substantial software automation growth, vows to build a bridge from legacy infrastructure to the bleeding edge for enterprise IT.

• 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.

• 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

  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

  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

  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

  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 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 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 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 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

  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.