Month: January 2018

Cloud

New Avaya cloud boss outlines strategy to make Avaya a cloud powerhouse

January 31, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on New Avaya cloud boss outlines strategy to make Avaya a cloud powerhouse
Mercer Rowe, newly recruited from IBM’s cloud business to put Avaya on a cutting-edge path in the cloud, laid out his plans at the Avaya ENGAGE event this week

Computers

The IT trends behind Canada’s learning spaces of the future

January 30, 2018 Robert Dutt Comments Off on The IT trends behind Canada’s learning spaces of the future
HP Canada president Mary Ann Yule on the opportunity HP sees in the Canadian education market, and how solution providers can profit on it.

Security

Sophos beefs up Intercept X zero-day malware solution with advanced machine learning

January 30, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Sophos beefs up Intercept X zero-day malware solution with advanced machine learning
Technology from last year’s Invincea acquisition by Sophos gives Intercept X massively scalable machine learning, which far exceeds the number of data sets machine learning has traditionally processed.

Backup

Arcserve announces cloud-first DR with near-zero cloud recovery points

January 30, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Arcserve announces cloud-first DR with near-zero cloud recovery points
Arcserve brings the technology adapted from last year’s acquisition of Zetta to market, with the ability to deliver the go-to-market potential that always eluded Zetta.

Unified Communications

Avaya CEO lays out forceful agenda for reborn company

January 29, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Avaya CEO lays out forceful agenda for reborn company
New Avaya CEO Jim Chirico acknowledged the old Avaya was the equivalent of a team that loses football games by playing a prevent defense, and told the company’s customers and partners that now they have a fundamentally different gameplan.

Unified Communications

Avaya announces new integrated voice and communications platform with Spoken acquisition

January 29, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Avaya announces new integrated voice and communications platform with Spoken acquisition
Avaya was already partnered with Spoken, but the acquisition will allow broaden application of their technology throughout Avaya’s portfolio, to enable customers to transform their business models.

Cloud

Palo Alto Networks makes Magnifier behavioral analytics app first in new Application Framework

January 29, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Palo Alto Networks makes Magnifier behavioral analytics app first in new Application Framework
The technology which comes from last year’s LightCyber acquisition, has now been integrated into Palo Alto Networks’ new cloud platform.

Security

Recorded Future adds Fusion end-to-end threat intelligence solution

January 29, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Recorded Future adds Fusion end-to-end threat intelligence solution
Fusion is designed to be sold be Recorded Future and its channel alongside the company’s existing solutions portfolio.

Computers

Acer rolls out new durable commercial Chromebook

January 26, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Acer rolls out new durable commercial Chromebook
In addition to the Chromebook 11 C732, Acer also announced a new ChromeBox offering, as well as a retail-focused convertible Chromebook.

Cloud

Dell Technologies forecasts big jump in impact of emerging technologies

January 26, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell Technologies forecasts big jump in impact of emerging technologies
From big picture developments like the emergence of fully orchestrated capabilities to manage workloads across public clouds, to more focused things like the growth of Augmented Reality headsets in business, Dell Technologies takes a stab at projecting the near-term adoption of futuristic technologies.