News

January 31, 2018 31 Jan'18
CompTIA: Digital transformation driving IT spending growth

The demand for cloud, security, IoT and a fair few other technologies should keep the channel busy throughout the rest of 2018.
January 31, 2018 31 Jan'18
Software development skills in demand, spurring channel business

With DevOps and Agile software development skills in demand, channel companies are responding with assessment, training and even staffing services for their clients.
January 30, 2018 30 Jan'18
Comodo takes aim at IoT certificates

Comodo CA's new chairman Bill Conner and CEO Bill Holtz talk with SearchSecurity about competition in the certificate market and how the internet of things will fuel growth.
January 30, 2018 30 Jan'18
Digital services, IT security shape 2018 legal trends

Data becomes paramount, worldwide laws may call for contractual changes and the demand for digital services is prompting a litigation shift, according to law firm Mayer Brown.
January 30, 2018 30 Jan'18
Microsoft's out-of-band patch disables Intel Spectre fix

Microsoft was forced to release an out-of-band Spectre patch designed not to mitigate the vulnerability but to protect users from Intel's broken fix.
January 30, 2018 30 Jan'18
Accenture: Intelligent operations goal requires data backbone

The concept of intelligent operations can help organizations overcome digital disruption, but they need a data backbone and back office improvements to make that happen.
January 29, 2018 29 Jan'18
Slack wants to boost privacy, external collaboration

With the addition of private shared channels, Slack looks to broaden its external collaboration tools. However, interoperability issues still nag team collaboration apps.
January 26, 2018 26 Jan'18
Couchbase PartnerEngage: NoSQL vendor seeks channel growth

Channel companies have an opportunity to wrap services around NoSQL database technology projects, as Couchbase PartnerEngage debuts; more news from the week.
January 26, 2018 26 Jan'18
AWS acquisition could foster cohesive security tools

Amazon's move to fold Sqrrl, a threat detection startup, into AWS security services could help bring together its growing list of disparate security tools.
January 25, 2018 25 Jan'18
Cisco HyperFlex update may open partner opportunities

Cisco HyperFlex gets an upgrade that the company said offers multi-cloud integration and a sales opportunity for channel partner companies.
January 25, 2018 25 Jan'18
Microsoft Azure chases AWS with Accelerated Networking

An Accelerated Networking upgrade to Microsoft Azure reduces latency and improves performance for newer VMs, as Microsoft tries to keep pace with AWS.
January 25, 2018 25 Jan'18
Comodo CA talks certificate trust, Symantec sanctions

Bill Conner and Bill Holtz, who recently joined Comodo CA as chairman and CEO, respectively, discuss Symantec's certificate issues and their effect on the certificate market.
January 25, 2018 25 Jan'18
Electron flaw introduces code risk to apps like Slack

The Electron framework -- used to develop desktop apps using web code -- included a remote code execution flaw that was passed on to popular apps like Slack.
January 25, 2018 25 Jan'18
Microsoft boasts of partner profitability levels

The vendor's partners are able to generate extra revenue for every $1 that they gain selling Microsoft.
January 23, 2018 23 Jan'18
Cloudian looks to hurdle multi-cloud barriers with HyperStore

HyperStore 7 pools storage across on premises and public clouds under a single namespace. Cloudian supports file and object storage, as well as Amazon, Microsoft and Google clouds.