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July 10, 2019 10 Jul'19
Ross Perot helped create the IT services industry

Ross Perot may be known to many people as a former presidential candidate, but he also played a central role in launching the IT services industry.
July 09, 2019 09 Jul'19
White-hot RPA market 'could change nature of work'

RPA vendor Automation Anywhere said it's poised to take full advantage of the burgeoning RPA market. Its recent deal with Microsoft is just one indication of RPA's popularity.
July 05, 2019 05 Jul'19
Armor Cloud Security bets future on channel partners

Armor Cloud Security has retooled its go-to-market strategy and partner program to appeal to cloud consultants, MSPs, MSSPs and resellers; other news from the week.
July 03, 2019 03 Jul'19
A buy-U.S. market greets new Huawei switches

The latest refresh of the Huawei CloudEngine switches highlights the preference of U.S. and Chinese enterprises to buy homegrown gear.
July 02, 2019 02 Jul'19
President Trump changes Huawei restrictions

President Donald Trump promised to loosen trade restrictions on Huawei, while respecting national security concerns, but the details of the changes are still unclear.
July 01, 2019 01 Jul'19
Identiverse attendees look to modernize IAM strategy

At a recent security and identity conference, attendees discussed the IAM market in clear terms: Shiny new features might be cool, but practicality reigns.
June 28, 2019 28 Jun'19
Dell Technologies partners thrive under updated program

Dell Technologies continues to report strong channel growth and highlight the cross-selling opportunities inherent in its portfolio. Looking back at its fiscal year 2020 first quarter, which ended ...
June 28, 2019 28 Jun'19
Extreme to plug hole in WLAN offering with Aerohive buy

Extreme Networks' Aerohive acquisition would fill a gap in Extreme's WLAN portfolio by adding a cloud-based management option competitive with Cisco and Aruba.
June 28, 2019 28 Jun'19
New Fidelis Cybersecurity channel VP ups partner focus

Eddie DeWolfe, who became Fidelis Cybersecurity's channel vice president earlier this month, said the company is pursuing a more focused and strategic approach with partners.
June 28, 2019 28 Jun'19
Armorblox takes NLU email security software to the channel

Startup Armorblox is looking to carve out a space in the email security software market with the help of channel partners. The company, based in Cupertino, Calif., touts its platform's use of ...
June 28, 2019 28 Jun'19
Tata Consultancy Services launches center for retail transformation

Retail digital transformation is a key focus of a newly launched innovation and research center that Tata Consultancy Services unveiled in New York; more news from the week.
June 27, 2019 27 Jun'19
Extreme Networks rolls out the welcome mat to Aerohive partners

Extreme makes it clear that there will be opportunities in a unified partner program after its acquisition is completed.
June 26, 2019 26 Jun'19
As NVMe prices fall, Qumulo hawks new all-flash storage

The Qumulo all-flash P-184T packs 184 TB of NVMe storage in 2U. The vendor also launched the C-168T hybrid and K-168 Active Archive arrays that use disk storage with SAS SSDs as a write cache.
June 25, 2019 25 Jun'19
How to decide how much government AI regulation is needed

Government AI regulation is needed, AI experts and policymakers concur. But, there's no clear consensus on how much regulation by the government is necessary.
June 24, 2019 24 Jun'19
Veritas builds data services platform around NetBackup

The Veritas services platform addresses protection, availability and data intelligence by unifying multiple products around NetBackup and its metadata catalog.