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• 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.

• June 26, 2014 26 Jun'14

  SMART Technologies releases a dry erase board for cyber-sharing

  Smart Technologies has released its SMART dry erase board and mobile app, SMART kapp, that will allow work to be saved and shared in real-time.

• June 26, 2014 26 Jun'14

  What is a CPU-based SDN switch?

  InfoBlox's Stu Bailey talks about the differences between the CPU-based LINCX SDN switch and ASIC-based switches, and how users can get involved with the development of LINCX.

• June 26, 2014 26 Jun'14

  Google and Samsung team up to integrate Android and Knox

  The next version of the Android operating system will have integration with the Samsung Knox platform, it was announced this week.

• June 26, 2014 26 Jun'14

  Video phones booming as users look to cut costs

  Sales of video phones are rapidly growing as users look to save on video conferencing costs, according to the latest report from Infonetics.

• June 26, 2014 26 Jun'14

  RainStor tailors its compression for big data archiving on Hadoop

  RainStor 6 includes Archive Application for Hadoop intended to reduce footprint and speed performance of Hadoop clusters.

• June 26, 2014 26 Jun'14

  Extreme will release an OpenDaylight SDN controller

  Extreme Networks is building an OpenDaylight controller that will support a wide variety of northbound and southbound interfaces.

• June 26, 2014 26 Jun'14

  HP 5400R improves resiliency and bandwidth of popular switch

  HP announced the next-generation version of a popular campus switch. The HP 5400R chassis has more resiliency and throughput than its predecessor.

• June 26, 2014 26 Jun'14

  OWASP under fire amid leadership controversy

  Special report: The handling of an OWASP employee's disputed harassment claim has sparked a debate over the group's governance and its future.

• June 26, 2014 26 Jun'14

  Microsoft leads unified communications market

  Q1 2014 revenue reported by Infonetics Research puts Microsoft ahead as a unified communications market leader, but Cisco is just barely behind.

• June 25, 2014 25 Jun'14

  PBX sales usurped by UC market

  A recent unified communications and telephony report from Infonetics Research shows the UC market has healthy gains as the PBX market falters.

• June 25, 2014 25 Jun'14

  Rackspace puts the pedal to the bare-metal cloud

  Rackspace is pushing bare-metal IaaS and containerization as it faces an uncertain future.

• June 25, 2014 25 Jun'14

  Montana notifies residents of 11-month old data breach

  The US state of Montana has just notified 1.3 million residents of a data breach in the state health department that took place in July 2013.

• June 25, 2014 25 Jun'14

  LINCX open source SDN switch ready for download

  Stu Bailey, CTO and founder of InfoBlox, talks about a new open source SDN switch, LINCX, which is poised to take on hardware-based networking.

• June 25, 2014 25 Jun'14

  Channel opportunities in wearable tech

  Resellers might not sell lots of Google Glass and iWatches but there are opportunities in supporting the move towards the use of more wearable technology.

• June 25, 2014 25 Jun'14

  BI market posing reseller challenges

  Selling business intelligence is not just about the technology with the channel advised to consider some company politics before making the sales pitch.

• June 25, 2014 25 Jun'14

  Cloud access brokers top security technology, says Gartner

  Cloud access security brokers are the top security technology trend for 2014, according to Gartner.

• June 25, 2014 25 Jun'14

  Cloud app logins reused in piracy scam

  Software piracy will remain prevalent even though more applications are delivered as a service, according to the BSA.

• June 25, 2014 25 Jun'14

  Report: Number of vulnerable NTP servers declines

  NTP amplification had led to several recent massive DDoS attacks. Despite the good news, researchers say many other DDoS techniques remain unfixed.

• June 25, 2014 25 Jun'14

  Permabit seeks OEM deals for HIOPS Compression

  Permabit adds HIOPS Compression to its Albireo data deduplication software, which it says can help storage array vendors hold off innovative startups.

• June 25, 2014 25 Jun'14

  CommVault IntelliSnap protects DataCore virtualized SANs

  CommVault IntelliSnap optimizes data protection on most hardware arrays, and now works with hardware running DataCore SANsymphony-V.

• June 25, 2014 25 Jun'14

  SolidFire SSD array adds plug-in for VM-level QoS

  Software plug-in for SolidFire SSD array enables its all-flash systems to communicate with VMware's vSphere Storage I/O Control.

• June 24, 2014 24 Jun'14

  AWS Elastic Beanstalk supports Docker 1.0

  The first production-ready version of a popular Linux container can be automated through Amazon's Elastic Beanstalk platform.

• June 24, 2014 24 Jun'14

  Target hires CISO as more retail breaches surface

  Target Corp.'s first chief information security officer took control of the Fortune 500 retailer's security program this week, even as a number of newly uncovered retail breaches highlight the ongoing challenges his organization will face.

• June 24, 2014 24 Jun'14

  Gartner: Spend less on prevention, more on detection

  At its annual security confab, the research giant said enterprises buy too much threat prevention and not enough detection and response technology.

• June 24, 2014 24 Jun'14

  Former NSA chief makes pitch for metadata collection

  Retired Gen. Keith Alexander reaffirmed the importance of NSA bulk metadata collection and pushed for thin client cloud computing to improve security.

• June 24, 2014 24 Jun'14

  Dell, Nutanix team up for hyper-converged software

  Dell's OEM deal with Nutanix will result in its selling hyper-converged software on PowerEdge servers. Dell also launched a low-end FC SAN.

• June 24, 2014 24 Jun'14

  Violin Memory adds management software to flash array

  With the Violin Concerto All Flash Array and software suite, Violin Memory joins the list of solid-state storage vendors adding data management.