News

September 07, 2017 07 Sep'17
SHA-1 continues to prove insecure

Security researchers once again proved how easy it can be to recover SHA-1 hashes by cracking the hashes on nearly 320 million passwords related to data breaches.
September 06, 2017 06 Sep'17
Cloudian CEO sees favorable trends for object storage

Cloudian CEO Michael Tso notes favorable trends for object storage: Capacities are increasing to petabytes, and customers want to use different clouds for different workloads.
September 06, 2017 06 Sep'17
Coho Data succumbs to funding woes

After receiving $76 million to develop DataStream hybrid NAS arrays, Coho Data can't find more investors and falls into the storage startup graveyard.
September 06, 2017 06 Sep'17
Microsoft will give legal aid to its 39 Dreamers

Tech chiefs have spoken out against President Trump's plans to pull the plug on the US Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals programme. Now Microsoft's legal chief has promised to provide legal support to affected staff.
September 05, 2017 05 Sep'17
Tegile set to compete with big six with cheaper arrays, says CEO

Tegile’s takeover by Western Digital will propel it to competition with the big six storage array makers, as well as bring economies of scale and see NVMf and 3D Xpoint products.
September 01, 2017 01 Sep'17
AWS management tools: Partners gain visibility with buyers

Consulting partners focusing on cloud management tools can increase their visibility with potential customers through AWS' Service Delivery Program; other news from the week.
August 31, 2017 31 Aug'17
VMware's PKS signals a container strategy shift

Pivotal Container Service brings Kubernetes to vSphere while NSX adds security, but the new service raises questions about VMware's own container projects.
August 30, 2017 30 Aug'17
Apple aims to increase enterprise footprint with Accenture

Apple has teamed up with Accenture to increase the adoption of iOS in enterprise customers.
August 30, 2017 30 Aug'17
IBM targets cloud services with new infrastructure

A new IBM hardware-oriented cloud infrastructure aims to deliver more competitive cloud-based services, as the company races to catch market rivals.
August 30, 2017 30 Aug'17
More security companies join VeloCloud's SD-WAN ecosystem

VeloCloud introduced new members to its SD-WAN security program, while Canonical Ltd. and SnapRoute combine technologies to develop an integrated white box switching stack.
August 30, 2017 30 Aug'17
New VMware offerings highlight app virtualization

At VMworld 2017, VMware aims to simplify app publishing by moving it to the cloud, and the Dell EMC VDI Complete bundle adds application virtualization.
August 30, 2017 30 Aug'17
Western Digital acquisition changes Tegile's course

Western Digital's acquisition spree continues with the pickup of flash vendor Tegile Systems. The drive-maker says Tegile storage complements its ActiveScale object storage.
August 29, 2017 29 Aug'17
FBI accused of campaigning against Kaspersky

The specter of Kaspersky-Russia ties has reportedly led to an FBI campaign urging private organizations to drop Kaspersky Lab products; experts urge the FBI to share more evidence.
August 29, 2017 29 Aug'17
VMware sees NSX networking layer as enterprise glue

VMware will add a dollop of NSX networking 'secret sauce' to many of its core products as a central piece of its strategies around virtualization, cloud computing and IoT.
August 29, 2017 29 Aug'17
Juniper bolsters security for Contrail hybrid cloud

Juniper is strengthening security in its Contrail cloud by adding microsegmentation as an option for networks that span multiple data centers.