Quizzes

Channel company quiz: Recap partner program and alliance news

This month's channel quiz features mergers and alliances (and their partner fallout) along with emerging technologies, cloud computing and regulatory activity. Continue Reading
Quiz: Recap vendors' 2016 channel partnering moves, restructuring

Vendor realignment, consolidation and restructuring made news in 2016. This quiz covers the highlights of the larger IT providers and their impact on the channel. Continue Reading
The latest on IT channel partner strategies and programs

This month's channel news quiz covers developments in channel partner strategies and programs, cloud computing, technologies affecting the channel and service provider business strategy. Continue Reading
Take this quiz to catch up on IT partnership news

This month's channel news quiz takes a look at a range of topics, including cybersecurity, cloud computing, distribution, partner conferences and the copier market. Continue Reading
IT channel partners: Catch up on trends with this quiz

This month's channel news quiz focuses on market research developments, regulatory compliance, automation trends, cloud computing and channel partnering strategy. Continue Reading

Microsoft WPC 2016: A quizzical recap of the channel partner event

This month's channel news quiz focuses on the recent Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, which highlighted cloud opportunities for the company's channel partners. Continue Reading
IT services providers: Quiz yourself on tech and channel trends

This month's channel news quiz runs the gamut from mergers and acquisitions to managed security services. Take the test to catch up on current events. Continue Reading
Channel partner programs: Quiz yourself on new developments

This installment of the channel news quiz covers developments in partner programs, recent conferences, data center technology and robotic process automation. Continue Reading
Current on cloud and managed services? Take the quiz

There's always a lot happening in the cloud and managed services sector. Take this new quiz to see if you're up to speed on the latest regulatory, vendor relations and market development trends. Continue Reading
Quiz for PaaS providers: Test your cloud services knowledge

Test your knowledge of cloud computing with this cloud services provider study guide. Learn what you need to know about customer requirements, application pricing and platform management interfaces. Continue Reading
Cloud computing networks: True or false?

A basic understanding of the cloud computing model ensures that the cloud computing services you offer will be top notch. Test your knowledge of cloud computing networks in this true or false quiz. Continue Reading

iSCSI Study Guide

iSCSI is a popular storage networking standard for linking data storage facilities. Test your knowledge of the iSCSI terms you should know with this study guide. Continue Reading
iSCSI Study Guide Answer Key

Answers to the iSCSI Study Guide. Continue Reading
Data Backup Study Guide Answer Key

Answers to the Data Backup Study Guide. Continue Reading
Data Backup Study Guide

Storage service providers oftentimes use data backup services as a springboard for other storage-related sales and services. Test your knowledge of the data backup terms you should know with this Study Guide. Continue Reading

Westcoast sets out with HANNspree to carve out AV reputation

The distributor might not be closely associated with the AV market but it has revealed intentions to change that with a vendor ...

Nadella signals hybrid theme for fiscal year ahead

The CEO of Microsoft has indicated that it is going to work with partners around the hybrid message as it moves into a fresh ...

DDoS threat rising back up the agenda

Increased digital transformation and lower costs for criminals mean that denial of service attacks are going to rise and deserve ...

SearchCloudProvider

Azure licensing eliminates pillar of public cloud from its platform

Changes to Azure licensing mean customers who want pay-as-you-go pricing will have to make upfront commitments to get it, as ...

HPE Helion cloud brokerage supplants its defunct public cloud

With its public cloud soon a thing of the past, the HPE cloud strategy around hybrid management continues to take shape with ...

Docker containers slide into production with Tutum deal

Docker has acquired container management provider Tutum to help transition its much talked about technology from an intriguing, ...

SearchSecurity

Critical Cisco vulnerabilities patched in Policy Suite

News roundup: Critical Cisco vulnerabilities in Policy Suite products were patched this week. Plus, Venmo's API is set to public,...

SaaS activity alerts can mitigate manual misconfigurations

SaaS activity management is becoming more important for infosec teams to combat issues of insider theft and unintentional ...

Cloud misconfigurations can be caused by too many admins

Cloud misconfigurations have reached a point where sensitive data can't be protected with manual control, says BetterCloud's ...

SearchStorage

Tintri acquisition proposal leaves customers in limbo

DataDirect Networks sees Tintri's analytics and flash capabilities as an entry point to the enterprise, but Tintri customers ...

Intel, Micron end 3D XPoint memory joint development

Micron and Intel plan to end their joint development of nonvolatile 3D XPoint memory next year, after finishing work on the ...

New Elastifile CEO intensifies startup's cloud focus

Elastifile's new CEO plans to increase the company's focus on filling a 'huge missing piece' of enterprise file storage for ...

SearchNetworking

Startup Arrcus aims NOS at Cisco, Juniper in the data center

Startup Arrcus has launched a scalable network operating system aimed at all switching tasks in the leaf-spine network. The new ...

Should IT share data analysis from network management consoles?

By making data analysis available from a network management console, IT groups could offer their lines of business better ...

Big Switch taps AWS VPCs for hybrid cloud networking

Big Switch plans to roll out software for creating virtual networks in AWS and a private cloud. The hybrid cloud technology takes...

SearchCloudComputing

Evaluate Google Cloud TPUs for machine learning apps

Machine learning apps have prompted a paradigm shift in the world of public cloud. Google is an early market leader with its TPUs...

Overcome app deployment challenges in a multi-cloud strategy

Looking to adopt a multi-cloud model? Be sure to address these common app deployment, redeployment and scaling challenges first.

Microsoft bills Azure network as the hub for remote offices

Azure Virtual WAN is Microsoft's bid to play in the emerging SD-WAN space, as it seeks to solve users' networking problems while ...

SearchDataManagement

Focus, scope and spotting opportunity are key to role of CDO

Chief data officers and experts see the CDO role as changing to a more strategic orientation -- especially finding key ...

Good data quality for machine learning is an analytics must

As companies add machine learning applications, they need to really understand -- and be able to improve -- their data. That's ...

Chief data officer role: Searching for consensus

The chief data officer role is about many things -- regulations, innovation, AI and more. Consultant Randy Bean discussed the ...

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Data analytics in government efforts lack structure

Data analytics in government agencies lack organization, focusing on immediate problems instead of attacking underlying causes ...

A complete guide to buying data discovery software

Data discovery software turns data into business insights, and it's vital for GDPR compliance. This guide outlines the products ...

Rising demand for business analytics education programs

Colleges and universities are increasingly offering business analytics degrees. The graduates can help build IT and business ...