Networking

Wendy Bahr, senior vice president of Cisco's Global Partner Organization

Simpler is better: Cisco pares programs

November 7, 2017 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Cisco announces a reduction in the complexity of its partner programs, while pivoting profitability towards software and recurring revenues.

Mark Hill, vice president of digitization, Cisco

Cisco eyes lower enterprise agreement limit

November 3, 2017 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Cisco will soon lower limits on its Enterprise Agreement software sales as it “looks to move more enterprise and commercial business to the new structure.

Improved integration of components highlights new Riverbed SteelCentral release

November 2, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

The improvements strengthen SteelCentral’s digital experience management capabilities, improved its Dev/Ops performance management, and enhance network performance management in Big Data environments.

Riverbed announces automated integration between ZScaler and SteelConnect SD-WAN

November 2, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

Riverbed and ZScaler partner again, this time on an integration around SteelConnect SD-WAN cloud networking that increases customer agility by automating ZScaler’s security capabilities within.

Tempered Networks announces identity-based industrial IoT gateway

October 24, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

Tempered Networks’ sweet spot for their identity-based networking products has always been the industrial IoT segment, but the new HIPswitch 250 strengthens their presence there.

Cisco Canada head looking for “next big disruptor” as partner

October 12, 2017 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Cisco Canada president Rola Dagher says the next great disruptor may be the next great partner. And there’s an growing chance that partner may be homegrown.

Cloud security policy: The questions you need to ask

October 4, 2017 Robert Dutt Comments Off

ESET’s Lysa Myers covers the question you need to ask when crafting a cloud security policy for your clients.

SonicWall makes biggest set of solution announcements in their history

September 26, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

SonicWall makes five major announcements, including a new firewall OS, a new firewall platform, a new family of Wave 2 access points, a new mobile access OS, and a cloud analytics application.

Mellanox provides HPE’s first Ethernet storage switches in HPE StoreFabric M-Series

September 25, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

The M-Series family OEMed from Mellanox, which provide 100 GbE Ethernet connectivity, but also scale down to an SMB price point, provide HPE with a strong channel offering that has a large price-performance differential over Fibre Channel.