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Handshake deal

Ingram Micro bolsters local management; Price takes on key vendor role

Wed, 15th Jun 2016
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Ingram Micro has strengthened its senior management lineup with the promotion of Chris Price and a new appointment to boot.
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ESET a lightweight among internet security products

Fri, 10th Jun 2016
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ESET has topped a new security product system performance test by AV-Comparatives, with one of its offerings among the lightest tested.
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Fortinet enters SIEM market with US$28m acquisition

Thu, 9th Jun 2016
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Fortinet strengthens its security prowess with a strategic US$28m AccelOps buy, delving into the booming SIEM market.
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Europe's Interoute launches Singapore virtual data center

Thu, 2nd Jun 2016
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Interoute, which operates one of Europe's largest cloud services platform, has launched a virtual data center zone in Singapore.
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Siemens, ZNV team up for green data centers

Thu, 2nd Jun 2016
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Siemens and security and monitoring company ZNV Technology have teamed up to drive more efficient, intelligent and reliable data center technologies.
Empty chair

Updated: Ingram Micro Australia boss departs

Wed, 1st Jun 2016
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Ingram Micro Australia's boss, Matt Sanderson, leaves for a new UK-based role after revitalizing the firm's ANZ operations.
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Virtualisation moves to the PDU with new Nlyte offering

Mon, 30th May 2016
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Nlyte Software has launched what it says is the first virtual power distribution unit, dramatically reducing the cost of power management.
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Dell leading the pack in identity management and governance

Mon, 30th May 2016
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Dell's One Identity Manager has garnered leader status in the latest Forrester Wave for identity management and governance. So who else made the cut?.
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Fortinet gains quintuple with 99.9+ score in latest VBSpam tests

Thu, 19th May 2016
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Fortinet's FortiMail has scored its fifth consecutive 99.9+ score - and zero false positives - in Virus Bulletin's latest independent VBSpam tests.
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ESET security solutions top independent spam filtering tests

Tue, 10th May 2016
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ESET has come out tops in anti-spam testing for security solutions in tests by both AV-Comparatives and Virus Bulletin.
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AWS leaves cloud infrastructure services competitors in its wake

Wed, 4th May 2016
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AWS continued to dominate the cloud infrastructure services market Q1 of 2016, leaving all its followers including Microsoft and Google in its wake.
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IBM ramps up flash storage solutions

Fri, 29th Apr 2016
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IBM reinvents data storage, unveiling ultra-fast all-flash arrays to accelerate business operations in the data-driven Cognitive Era.
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ChinaCache launches first of its kind internet exchange in China

Fri, 29th Apr 2016
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ChinaCache unveils a pioneering internet exchange, CHN-IX, promising efficient content delivery amid China's surging web traffic.
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Symantec CEO exits as company reduces revenue forecast

Fri, 29th Apr 2016
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Symantec chief executive Michael A Brown is exiting the company, with the vendor also revising its Q4 revenue forecast downwards by US$12 million.
Time

Nines all the way as Digital Realty scores five 9s uptime - for the ninth time

Thu, 28th Apr 2016
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Digital Realty scored five 9s of uptime across its data center suites last year - for the ninth consecutive year.
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Micro-mobile data center market on rapid growth trajectory

Tue, 26th Apr 2016
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Demand for micro-mobile data centers is heating up, thanks in part to power consumption and carbon emission 'challenges'.
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New boss for UltraServe as founder steps aside

Tue, 26th Apr 2016
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UltraServe appoints Matthew Hyland as CEO, with founder Samuel Yeats moving to board level to bolster global growth strategy.
Iot security

IoT security spending to hit $348m this year, cloud security vital

Tue, 26th Apr 2016
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Gartner is forecasting cloud IoT spend to hit US$348 million this year, and says cloud-based security services will be vital going forward.
Data center red

Intel slashes 12,000 jobs, focuses business on data center and IoT

Thu, 21st Apr 2016
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Intel is slashing 12,000 positions globally as it refocuses its business around data center and internet of things and away from PCs.
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Data center startup emerges from stealth with $12.5m and new appliance

Thu, 21st Apr 2016
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Diamanti, which aims to solve production container deployment and performance challenges, has secured $12.5m funding and debuted a new appliance.