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- September 29, 2014
29 Sep'14
Argus scales storage with X-IO ISE arrays
The need for reliable throughput prompted Argus to integrate 81 ISE HDD arrays to support Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and a SQL Server database with 2 PB of storage.
- September 29, 2014
29 Sep'14
IT pros call in third parties to deal with byzantine AWS billing
Does AWS billing give you a headache? Some customers have turned to third-party software to make sense of cloud costs.
- September 29, 2014
29 Sep'14
Oracle goes deeper on cloud database services
At Oracle OpenWorld 2014, CTO Larry Ellison announced that users will be able use a new cloud database service to send their Oracle Database instances to the cloud with "the push of a button."
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- September 29, 2014
29 Sep'14
Does the cloud need global data privacy standards?
A recent study from the Cloud Security Alliance shows strong support for global data privacy standards as well as a consumer bill of rights, but there are major obstacles for privacy in the cloud.
- September 29, 2014
29 Sep'14
Network services apps for Pertino's cloud-based WAN
Pertino adds several network services apps to its cloud-based WAN, giving IT pros the visibility and control they need over remote access.
- September 26, 2014
26 Sep'14
Apple to release fix for Bash bug
Apple has confirmed that its Mac OS X operating system is vulnerable to the Bash bug.
- September 26, 2014
26 Sep'14
VMware launches vCloud Air ISV partner program
VMware creates program to help independent software vendors migrate their solutions over to vCloud Air.
- September 26, 2014
26 Sep'14
Shellshock is bigger than Heartbleed, say experts
The oldest known bug in the world is still sending shock waves through the security community as Unix distributors scramble for a solution.
- September 26, 2014
26 Sep'14
Apple rushes out second iOS 8 update
Apple has rushed out a second update for iOS 8 after the initial operating system and its first update were riddled with flaws.
- September 26, 2014
26 Sep'14
Security resellers have to carry on education role
It might seem a bit old hat to talk about the security channel educating customers but the need for them to do so remains more important than ever.
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- September 26, 2014
26 Sep'14
Shellshock headlines unlikely to provoke channel cheers
The days when a major security breach would provoke cheers from a FUD selling security channel seem to be long gone.
- September 26, 2014
26 Sep'14
BlackBerry losses narrow as restructuring plan bears fruit
Losses at struggling mobile communications supplier BlackBerry narrowed significantly during the second quarter of its fiscal 2015.
- September 26, 2014
26 Sep'14
Lenovo updates ThinkServer portfolio
Lenovo has become the third server manufacturer to update its enterprise server portfolio with latest Intel Xeon chips E5 2600 v3.
- September 26, 2014
26 Sep'14
Ray Ozzie's Talko startup puts voice in mobile focus
New mobile startup Talko from tech pioneer Ray Ozzie takes a consumerization-based approach to voice communications, but will it attract IT?
- September 25, 2014
25 Sep'14
Huawei ploughs $4 billion into fixed broadband research
Huawei announces major R&D investment in ‘ultra-broadband’ research over the next three years as interest in new networking standards grows.
- September 25, 2014
25 Sep'14
Updates and 'bendgates' spell a very bad week for Apple
Reports that 8.0.1 is rendering phones useless have prompted Apple to take the unprecedented action of pulling the update.
- September 25, 2014
25 Sep'14
Lenovo looks for server enterprise partners
Lenovo has unveiled a range of server products as it gets ready for the IBM x86 business to become part of the fold and is looking for resellers with enterprise expertise.
- September 25, 2014
25 Sep'14
Avnet handed Cisco security portfolio
Just a couple of months after it set up a dedicated networking and security division Avnet has been given distribution rights by Cisco to the vendor's security portfolio.
- September 25, 2014
25 Sep'14
Oracle releases OpenStack Support for Oracle Linux and Oracle VM
Oracle has made its Oracle OpenStack for Oracle Linux distribution generally available to support customers.
- September 25, 2014
25 Sep'14
Ebay slow to react to phishing scam
Ebay has removed malicious links in a listing for iPhones that diverted to a phishing site designed to steal user credentials.
- September 25, 2014
25 Sep'14
Conventional data center skills and tools to limit business growth
IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) skills including capacity planning and performance management, which are widely valued in data centers, are no longer sufficient to meet business needs in the digital economy era, analyst firm Gartner has ...
- September 25, 2014
25 Sep'14
HP's SDN app store gives its SDN controller something to do
HP's marketplace for SDN apps is now open. Download apps from F5, Blue Cat, Kemp and others for HP's OpenFlow controller.
- September 25, 2014
25 Sep'14
How to spot shadow cloud usage and risks
Security pros from Hewlett-Packard and SkyHigh Networks offer insight on how to identify shadow cloud apps and services within the enterprise.
- September 25, 2014
25 Sep'14
BYOD poses big security threat to micro businesses
Micro businesses are adopting mobile devices at the same rate as large enterprises, but lack the same security resources.
- September 25, 2014
25 Sep'14
Wi-Fi requirements dictated by industry-specific needs
As wireless vendors move away from competing on price or speed, IT professionals share their Wi-Fi requirements.
- September 25, 2014
25 Sep'14
Blue Jeans conferencing, now with video analytics
Blue Jeans has introduced Command Center, a video analytics tool that provides visibility into Blue Jeans conferencing for IT teams.
- September 25, 2014
25 Sep'14
Health IT groups and political players back telehealth
Telehealth advocacy groups and political leaders from across the political spectrum are uniting around a push for telehealth reform.
- September 25, 2014
25 Sep'14
Massive AWS reboot planned
Amazon Web Services will soon patch huge swaths of its EC2 fleet to protect against a security vulnerability, and customers won’t be able to re-launch instances to avoid it.
- September 25, 2014
25 Sep'14
CloudBees latest in PaaS vendor comings and goings
CloudBees is the latest small PaaS provider to bow out, leaving enterprise IT questioning the market as larger vendors squeeze out remaining players.
- September 25, 2014
25 Sep'14
How many systems are actually affected by the Bash vulnerability?
As attackers begin exploiting the 'Shellshock' Bash vulnerability, experts say many attack vectors remain unknown, making immediate remediation extremely critical.
- September 24, 2014
24 Sep'14
Lexmark encouraging reseller solutions transformation
Lexmark is putting more emphasis on solution selling encouraging partners to follow its own lead and move beyond hardware.
- September 24, 2014
24 Sep'14
Conventional data center skills and tools to limit business growth
IT skills including capacity planning and performance management are no longer sufficient for business growth.
- September 24, 2014
24 Sep'14
EMC launches channel incentive program for entry-level segment
Storage giant aims to boost channel sales in entry-level segment with incentive program, simplified processes and new products.
- September 24, 2014
24 Sep'14
Managed services becoming key for channel partners, says Canalys
New research suggests that channel partners are moving to a managed service-centric future but majority still worry that cloud providers will bypass their offerings.
- September 24, 2014
24 Sep'14
Is the Concur acquisition a good deal for users?
In the end, will users benefit from SAP's acquisition of Concur? One analyst doesn't think so.
- September 24, 2014
24 Sep'14
How customers size up public cloud computing services
What are your customers' top concerns when choosing public cloud services? Our survey offers insight that can help shape your selling strategy.
- September 23, 2014
23 Sep'14
Securing virtual machines still a dark art, says Kaspersky Lab
Five common myths about virtualization security is preventing businesses getting the greatest benefit with the least risk.
- September 23, 2014
23 Sep'14
Energy IT pros confident on breach detection, survey shows
Two-thirds of energy sector IT professionals claim they could detect a breach within a week, a survey shows.
- September 23, 2014
23 Sep'14
Non-IT committees influencing IT spend
CIOs are being influenced by a diverse group of executives when making buying decisions, says research.
- September 23, 2014
23 Sep'14
Ebay under fire for inaction over phishing attacks
Auction site eBay is under fire after saying it has no plans to disallow active content in listings, despite the risk to users.
- September 23, 2014
23 Sep'14
Experts: Cloud breaches an inevitable threat to data privacy
Attendees and speakers at the CSA Congress and IAPP Privacy Academy stressed the need for better data classification to reduce the effects of cloud breaches.
- September 23, 2014
23 Sep'14
NetApp launches StorageGrid Web-scale object storage
NetApp expands its low-profile StorageGrid object storage with a Webscale version to go beyond its healthcare niche.
- September 23, 2014
23 Sep'14
Brocade tries to become the Red Hat of OpenDaylight SDN
The new Brocade Vyatta controller is a commercially supported open source product. Brocade will continuously integrate the controller with the OpenDaylight Project.
- September 22, 2014
22 Sep'14
Dell goes broadline in the UK with Ingram signing
Dell has signed up Ingram Micro to grow its business in the UK as it expands its distribution relationships with a broadline appointment.
- September 22, 2014
22 Sep'14
Security managers have to face up to risk
Security managers have to face up to the reality of cyber attacks or risk being hit hard when things go wrong, according to Dimension Data's security chief.
- September 22, 2014
22 Sep'14
Conficker infections an indictment of IT security, says CWG
Conficker worm infections reflect the “sad state of affairs of IT security," says the Conficker Working Group.
- September 22, 2014
22 Sep'14
SAP merges Hybris into a customer experience and commerce unit
SAP has further integrated its 2013 acquisition Hybris, a customer engagement software company.
- September 22, 2014
22 Sep'14
KPMG and Oracle target FTSE 350
KPMG is targeting the 350 biggest businesses by providing services through software giant Oracle’s cloud offering.
- September 22, 2014
22 Sep'14
Businesses grow tech expertise through software M&As
Businesses are increasingly acquiring software companies to bolster software development expertise a new report finds.
- September 22, 2014
22 Sep'14
IBM opens cloud data center for business continuity
IBM has opened a cloud resiliency center in North Carolina to provide business continuity capabilities in the cloud.
- September 19, 2014
19 Sep'14
Cloudian launches hardware appliances for object software
Hybrid cloud vendor Cloudian bucks the software-defined storage trend, adding appliances to run its HyperStore object software.
- September 19, 2014
19 Sep'14
Rackspace chooses to go solo, questions remain
Rackspace rebuffed its suitors and opted to stay independent. What that means for the long-term stability of a company pushing managed cloud remains unclear.
- September 19, 2014
19 Sep'14
Home Depot breach becomes largest-ever retail breach
Home Depot said late Thursday that its recent breach involving 56 million payment cards was the result of custom-built malware, and that the company has since rolled out new POS encryption technology.
- September 19, 2014
19 Sep'14
Real security risks for virtual currency Bitcoin
The Bitcoin market is maturing but security issues, such as private key management, persist. The Bitcoin Foundation gives the good news and bad news regarding Bitcoin security.
- September 19, 2014
19 Sep'14
National Health IT Week spawns CHIME-AMDIS partnership
CHIME uses National Health IT Week to roll out its partnership with AMDIS. CHIME will handle the policy and AMDIS the medical and technical knowhow.
- September 19, 2014
19 Sep'14
Samsung slashes Knox pricing, offers free versions
Samsung has answered questions about the future of Knox with three new versions of its EMM product, two of which will be free.
- September 19, 2014
19 Sep'14
Ellison calls it time in CEO role at Oracle
After 35 years at the helm Larry Ellison has decided to step down from his position as CEO of Oracle to move into the CTO position.
- September 19, 2014
19 Sep'14
Acronis bolsters cloud portfolio with acquisition of nScaled
Acronis rounds off its cloud offering with the acquisition of leading Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service solution.
- September 19, 2014
19 Sep'14
Asia dominates as outsourcing location
India is still the best place for businesses to outsource services and is unrivalled in its scale and availability of skills.
- September 19, 2014
19 Sep'14
Software-defined infrastructure challenges legacy IT culture
Software-defined infrastructures are rapidly emerging and could disrupt conventional IT control, responsibility and support.
- September 19, 2014
19 Sep'14
Researchers set up privacy and security partnership
Security researchers, Dropbox and Google have joined forces to make open-source security tools easier to use.
- September 19, 2014
19 Sep'14
Oracle’s Q1 fiscal 2015 results show cloud services growth
Oracle's Q1 2014-15 revenues were up 3% to $8.6bn, but GAAP net profit was flat at $2.2bn and non-GAAP was up 2% at $2.8bn.
- September 19, 2014
19 Sep'14
SAP acquires Concur to build cloud-based expense management
SAP has agreed to acquire online travel and expense management SaaS provider Concur Technologies for $8bn.
- September 19, 2014
19 Sep'14
A3Cube adds software to pool, scale storage resources
A3Cube Fortissimo Foundation software works with its Ronniee NICs to scale storage resources and boost the performance of I/O-intensive applications.
- September 18, 2014
18 Sep'14
Ixia software will test Network Functions Virtualization
Ixia virtualizes its IxLoad network testing hardware for Network Functions Virtualization. Mobile operators will use it for NFV testing.
- September 18, 2014
18 Sep'14
Aerohive, Radius Networks combine Wi-Fi, iBeacon technology
Aerohive and Radius Networks have partnered to combine Wi-Fi infrastructure with iBeacon technology to offer proximity services for businesses.
- September 18, 2014
18 Sep'14
Licensing details scarce for Azure RemoteApp Service
Months after releasing Azure RemoteApp Service, Microsoft remains quiet on licensing and pricing details. What does this mean for enterprise IT?
- September 18, 2014
18 Sep'14
Acronis moves into DRaaS space with nScaled acquisition
Backup vendor Acronis expands its data protection portfolio by acquiring disaster as a recovery service vendor nScaled.
- September 18, 2014
18 Sep'14
Rackspace takes itself off the market
Rackspace CTO John Engates talks Amazon, niche markets and all the reassuring the company had to do as outsiders debated the company's future.
- September 18, 2014
18 Sep'14
Dell Solutions Summit: Channel delivering $20 billion and growing
Michael Dell has praised the channel for its contribution to the business revealing it delivers $20 billion and a third of the firm's global revenues.
- September 18, 2014
18 Sep'14
Apple pushes security and privacy credentials after iCloud hack
Apple assures users it takes privacy seriously, expanding two-factor authentication for its iCloud backup after celebrity photos were leaked online.
- September 18, 2014
18 Sep'14
Dell Solutions Summit: Customer needs driving change
Responding to the customer is changing the way that Dell reacts to the market according to its CEO Michael Dell.
- September 18, 2014
18 Sep'14
Ebay slow to react to phishing scam
Ebay has come under fire for being slow to remove malicious links in a listing for iPhones that diverted to a phishing site.
- September 18, 2014
18 Sep'14
Mastercard voice and face recognition pilot 98% successful
A pilot of biometric technologies for payments has revealed a 98% success rate in voice and facial recognition.
- September 18, 2014
18 Sep'14
Big data security analytics still immature, say security experts
The big data security analytics concept and the tools are still immature, according to a panel of security experts.
- September 18, 2014
18 Sep'14
Front Porch Digital is latest Oracle acquisition
Oracle acquired media management and storage company Front Porch Digital, while Oregon prepares for its legal battle with Oracle and sets its budget at $2 million.
- September 18, 2014
18 Sep'14
HIPAA compliance, patients' right to data on OCR's radar
Jocelyn Samuels, the new OCR director, stressed the importance of patients having access to their records, in a speech during National Health IT Week.
- September 18, 2014
18 Sep'14
Five key commercial SDN controllers
Like open source controllers, commercial SDN controllers have begun to come to market as part of various vendors' SDN platforms. We rounded up five commercial SDN controllers to know about.
- September 18, 2014
18 Sep'14
US military logistics arm breached by China-linked hackers
US government inquiry finds Transcomm contractors had their systems hacked by groups linked to the Chinese government.
- September 17, 2014
17 Sep'14
SCOM bridges gap between in Linux infrastructure
Most IT admins use System Center to monitor Windows devices, but through scripting and management packs, it can also monitor and triage Linux
- September 17, 2014
17 Sep'14
Meru's OpenDaylight controller app enables Lync QoS on SDNs
Wireless LAN vendor Meru offers Meru Collaborator, an application for the OpenDaylight controller that allows Microsoft Lync to request QoS for UC sessions.
- September 17, 2014
17 Sep'14
Juniper links threat intelligence feeds and its firewalls
Juniper closes the gap between detection and security enforcement by linking its threat intelligence platform to its SRX firewall series.
- September 17, 2014
17 Sep'14
Alarming level of cyber threat set for a decade, says Nato
The alarming level of cyber threats organizations currently face is unlikely to fall for the next 10 years, says Nato.
- September 17, 2014
17 Sep'14
Interoperability key to patient engagement, says DeSalvo
National Health IT Coordinator Karen DeSalvo, M.D., christens National Health IT Week with a patient engagement keynote; debuts her Walking Gallery jacket.
- September 17, 2014
17 Sep'14
KPMG: IoT, 3D printing and healthcare IT to have most impact
Internet of things (IoT), 3D printing and biotech or healthcare IT are among the IT trends that will change the way people work and live.
- September 17, 2014
17 Sep'14
NetApp launches first version of FlashRay all-flash system
NetApp says select customers can buy its FlashRay all-flash array, which includes inline dedupe and compression but is still a one-node configuration.
- September 17, 2014
17 Sep'14
IT must pump the breaks on DevOps
There's a lot of hype about continuous deployment in DevOps circles, but it can be disastrous if the right culture and organization aren't in place.
- September 17, 2014
17 Sep'14
Cisco integrates Sourcefire IPS and threat detection into ASA
Cisco Sourcefire-ASA integration creates a next-generation firewall with IPS and advanced threat protection built in. The integration also ties ASA firewalls to Sourcefire's endpoint security product.
- September 17, 2014
17 Sep'14
Research: Defense-in-depth strategy isn't enough
The defense-in-depth security model is often touted as a must for enterprises, but research shows that security products often fail to do what they're supposed to.
- September 17, 2014
17 Sep'14
Apple bolsters iCloud two-factor authentication
Following a high-profile leak of celebrity photos, Apple has moved to improve its iCloud two-factor authentication mechanisms.
- September 17, 2014
17 Sep'14
Is Infor Xi too cloud for users?
Infor rolls out Infor Xi and four new cloud applications at Inforum 2014, but users are unsure how -- or whether -- to move off their ERPs.
- September 16, 2014
16 Sep'14
Microsoft pitches Dynamics CRM 2015 as one cloud for all
Microsoft is making its Dynamics CRM 2015 available next quarter along with updates to its Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online services.
- September 16, 2014
16 Sep'14
Premium wearables to push sales growth, say Juniper
Premium wearable devices will push wearable revenues to $53.2 billion by the year 2019, according to research firm Juniper.
- September 16, 2014
16 Sep'14
Trend Micro continues staff expansion with industry veteran hires
Trend Micro has kept its recruitment strategy going as it looks to put more muscle behind its market growth ambitions.
- September 16, 2014
16 Sep'14
Infor launches Dynamic Science Labs
Infor launches Dynamic Science Labs organization at its customer event in New Orleans.
- September 16, 2014
16 Sep'14
Businesses facing digital leadership shortage, says new report
CSC’s Leading Edge Forum (LEF) has said that firms need to nurture digital leaders rather than rely on the IT department to make the big decisions.
- September 16, 2014
16 Sep'14
Cavium's XPliant network chips have programmable data planes
Cavium claims its programmable XPliant Ethernet chip can support new protocols via software updates without adding latency to the data plane.
- September 16, 2014
16 Sep'14
Researcher: Security flaws inherent in open source frameworks
Developers increasingly rely on a variety of open source components, but a VerSprite researcher warns that security issues accompany many popular frameworks.
- September 16, 2014
16 Sep'14
IBM unveils Watson Analytics
IBM launches Watson Analytics, a natural language-based cognitive service designed to make predictive analytics easy to use.
- September 16, 2014
16 Sep'14
HP, IBM and Quantum extend LTO tape product roadmap
LTO tape vendors extend the LTO roadmap to include generations 9 and 10 with increasing capacity and transfer rates.