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 Answer Key

Answers to the iSCSI Study Guide. 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
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

HPE rolls out packaged approach with Greenlake Flex Capacity

HPE has made life easier for partners with a pre-packaged approach that will speed up quote times and make life easier for those ...

Change at the top of Comms-care

With the business now a fully functioning part of Ingram Micro the managing director has opted to leave the services specialist

Cloud journey still causing problems for many users

Rackspace identifies the key role that the channel can play in helping customers through the cloud migration process

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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, ...

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How white hat hackers can tell you more than threat intelligence

White hat hackers can play a key role in assessing threats lurking on the dark web. Discover what traditional threat intelligence...

Accenture's Tammy Moskites explains how the CISO position is changing

Accenture's Tammy Moskites spoke with SearchSecurity at RSA Conference 2018 about the daunting challenges CISOs face today and ...

PyRoMineIoT cryptojacker uses NSA exploit to spread

The latest malware threat based on the EternalRomance NSA exploit is PyRoMineIoT, a cryptojacker infecting IoT devices. But ...

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Four common SSD form factors and where they work best

Solid-state drive form factors offer different benefits, from ease of transition to increased throughput. Four popular form ...

Ceph-based cloud block storage service debuts from Atlantic.Net

Atlantic.Net's cloud-based block storage service is built on open source Ceph, and it includes an NVMe-based flash cache to boost...

Who needs a multi-cloud environment and how best to deploy one

Multi-cloud deployments let IT pick and choose among services from a variety of cloud providers to meet the storage and workload ...

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Five needed product features to fix network management issues

A new survey by Enterprise Management Associates attempts to shed light on the most important tools needed to combat network ...

Juniper unveils Penta chipset for 5G infrastructure

Juniper unveils the Penta chipset for carrier's 5G infrastructure. The packet-forwarding chip features higher speeds and low ...

Cisco to merge Viptela, DNA Center for campus networking

Cisco plans to integrate its Viptela SD-WAN with DNA Center for campus networking in the next 18 months. At the same time, Cisco ...

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Map hybrid cloud applications to your VPN address spaces

Enterprise networks can easily become your Achilles' heel in hybrid cloud. Follow this advice to effectively manage your VPN, as ...

Evaluate PaaS vendors based on these two types of features

To determine whether a PaaS provider will meet their needs, buyers should look closely at what the vendor offers for development ...

Google adds single-tenant VMs for compliance, license cares

Google continues its quest to be a more enterprise-friendly cloud, as it adds VMs with isolated hardware that could help ...

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Hortonworks cloud options grow via Google, Microsoft, IBM

Hortonworks now supports Google Cloud Storage and has also broadened cloud deals with Microsoft and IBM, aiming to increase cloud...

Evolving data integration strategies target new analytics needs

Most companies don't have a shortage of data, but it's often stored in siloed systems or inconsistent formats -- problems that ...

What goes into a customer analytics data integration framework

Customer data integration is a minefield for IT teams to navigate. But incorporating a set of core technical functions into an ...

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Data-driven strategy grooms dog care franchise for growth

Camp Bow Wow is growing its day care and boarding business for dogs with the help of a data-driven approach that's powered by a ...

Tableau acquisition of MIT AI startup aims at smarter BI software

Tableau acquires AI startup Empirical Systems in a plan to provide users with automated data modeling capabilities and enable ...

Choosing the right data discovery platform for the enterprise

Obviously, cost and scalability factor into data discovery platform buying decisions, but other features, like visualizations and...