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Dell buys EMC for $67 billion: Will bigger be better?

October 12, 2015October 13, 2015 enews

Dell acquires EMC in a deal that creates the largest privately held technology company. The combined entity, which will be run by Michael Dell, is betting scale will sell to enterprises. Dell said it will acquire EMC for about $67 billion in cash and stock in what equates to a bet that bigger is better in enterprise technology and hybrid data centers. The combination of Dell and EMC will create the largest “privately-controlled, integrated technology company.” Here’s the big question: Will bigger necessarily be better for enterprise customers? EMC and…

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Saga is first and only Symantec Platinum partner in the region

October 12, 2015October 13, 2015 enews

After Symantec launched its Secure One program, successor to the former Symantec Partner program, Saga has become the first and only Secure One Symantec Platinum Partner in the region. Secure One Platinum Partner is the highest status Symantec awarded its partners. In order for partner to reach Platinum status it is necessary to have expertise in at least two of the four Symantec competencies (Saga has it Information Protection and Threat Protection areas). Symantec Information Protection competency indicates expertise concerning the data access control wherever they are stored: on local…

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CEE Telcos Seek Revenue Streams Outside Their Core-Business Area, Says IDC

October 11, 2015October 12, 2015 enews

The total amount of revenues that the Central and Eastern European (CEE) telecommunications services operators generate from non-core-business revenues will continue to grow throughout the 2015–2019 forecast period, as a precarious economic environment, growing competition, and increasing regulatory pressures forces these companies to try their luck outside the declining telecom industry. Credit Photo: britannica.com Prague, October 8, 2015 –The latest analysis by International Data Corporation (IDC) showed that the combined revenues from all non-telecommunications services (including equipment sales) constituted 14.6% of the total revenues reported by the ten observed…

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Oracle ZFS appliance sales hit $1 billion

October 11, 2015October 12, 2015 enews

Four times slower than EMC’s XtremIO Oracle blogs it’s sold more than a billion dollars’ worth of its ZFS appliance, with almost 15,000 systems installed by more than 5,000 customers. It is “currently one of the fastest growing products within the Oracle Server and Storage Systems business unit.” Sounds impressive, particularly with EMC saying it has sold a billion dollars’ worth of XtremIO all-flash arrays in six quarters and that the flash array is the company’s fastest-growing product line. Here’s the ZFS appliance history: January 2009 – Sun Open Storage…

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Think You’re Mobile? Think Again

October 8, 2015October 12, 2015 enews

Few innovations surpass the transformative, global impact of mobile…and we’re only just getting started. There are now more mobile devices than people, and they’re multiplying five times faster than we are. Mobile commerce, which is projected to hit $31B in 2016 (up 1000%+ from 2010), received more venture capital last year than the two prior years combined. Image shared by James Theophane And yet, despite 81% of CEOs acknowledging mobile to be strategically important for their organization, only a select few have strategically employed mobile to drive business transformation and…

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Who will monitor the devices in IoT network?

October 6, 2015October 6, 2015 enews

With the hype around IoT reaching crescendo all kinds of players are getting into the scene. These players design from Things to applications addressing various solutions. Telecom service providers have a head start in providing the interconnection. They manage their network and ensure the connectivity is ensured. However an IoT network will be successful only if it is robust enough so that the service levels are high. In any network high reliability is achieved only when the connected devices are monitored on a real time basis. The best example is…

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Frustrated by Ad Blocking? Create Better Content

October 5, 2015October 5, 2015 enews

Digital advertising is at a crossroads. The two headed monster of ad blocking and allegations of click fraud have put advertisers and publishers more than a little on edge. At stake are the prevailing economics of the internet, and at risk is nothing less than any entity that relies on the trafficking and trade of digital advertising. Which is to say, publishers, ad networks, ad tech infrastructure providers and brands that rely on digital advertising to generate revenue—and, to an extent, anyone who benefits from the consumption of free content.…

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Who pays for cybercrime?

October 4, 2015October 4, 2015 enews

Cybercrime is happening more frequently leading to more costs and more prevention efforts. It is become a billion dollar business… Cybercrime is becoming such a common occurrence. Too many of us have to hear about and become familiar with the Deep Web sooner than I ever dreamed we would. I heard Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek – the presenters at Black Hat who hacked a 2014 Jeep Cherokee’s onboard computer sparking a massive vehicle recall – say that “everything is hackable.” And it is. If you think you’re safe then…

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JavaScript DDoS Attack Peaks at 275,000 Requests-Per-Second

September 29, 2015September 29, 2015 enews

Two years ago at the Black Hat conference, WhiteHat Security researchers Jeremiah Grossman and Matt Johansen explained how hackers could in theory leverage an online ad network to distribute malicious JavaScript efficiently and quickly. Image: Threat Post Depending on how much money the attacker wanted to spend, they could do just about anything from drive-by download attacks, to search engine poisoning to DDoS attacks. “For a DDoS attack, for mere dollars we could bring down one Apache server very quickly for probably under $10 and hold it down for a…

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Facebook plans to bring internet to refugees

September 29, 2015 enews

Web access marks start of five-year UN project to bring internet to everyone Image credit: catwalker / Shutterstock.com Facebook plans to bring the internet to refugee camps, believing technology can help them access aid and keep in touch with family. CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirmed his company would work with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to bring connectivity to camps of people emigrating from countries hit by conflicts, such as Syria. “In the short term to address the current crises we will be working with UNCHR to bring the…