Each week I select 60-90 items from mainstream IT publications and publish them on the website for “IT News and Events.”

I also select press releases from various mainstream IT vendors and certain blog articles. In this issue the vendors are: DDN, Tinri, Oracle, Microsoft, Cisco, IBM, Dell, Lenovo, Red Hat, AWS, Citrix. Dell, Veeam, Nutanix and Centrify.

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Oracle News

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Nissan Moves To Oracle Cloud Infrastructure For High-Performance Computing

Plans to migrate computational fluid dynamics, structural mechanics simulation, and 3D visualization to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to bring new cars to market faster
[Oracle News, August 13th, 2020]

Oracle Inventory Optimization Enables Retailers To Navigate Uncharted Demand

Cloud service taps machine learning to help retailers optimize inventory to adapt to changing customer buying behaviors
[Oracle News, August 11th, 2020]

Restaurant Survey: Consumers Eager To Dine-Out And Are Supporting Local

Oracle study highlights consumer views on restaurants during COVID-19 and what brands should expect in terms of take-out and dine-in experiences
[Oracle News, August 12th, 2020]

Oracle A Winner In Celent Health Policy Administration Systems Report

Oracle Health Insurance noted for having the greatest breadth of functionality
[Oracle News, August 13th, 2020]

Oracle Named A Leader In Gartner Magic Quadrant For Life Insurance Policy Administration Systems North America For The 7th Time

Oracle recognized for its completeness of vision and ability to execute
[Oracle News, August 13th, 2020]

Marshall Retail Group Deploys Oracle Retail In 100 Days With BTM Global

New cloud point-of-sale system provides agility to adhere to new shopping requirements and social distancing
[Oracle News, August 13th, 2020]

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Microsoft News

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Standard Chartered Bank Partners With Microsoft To Become A Cloud-First Bank

Standard Chartered Bank and Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday announced a three-year strategic partnership to accelerate the bank’s digital transformation through a cloud-first strategy
[Microsoft News, August 11th, 2020]

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Cisco News

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Cisco Reports Fourth Quarter And Fiscal Year 2020 Earnings

Q4 Results: Revenue: $12.2 billion – Decrease of (9)% year over year
[Cisco News, August 12th, 2020]

An Unprecedented Opportunity

Cisco took a very bold step and declared a global ‘work from home’ policy for most of our 140,000 employees, contractors, and partners. The almost-overnight move presented a number of challenges-for example, securing 130,000 devices across 498 offices in 94 countries. Overall, the transition went smoothly
[Cisco News, August 14th, 2020]

Threat Roundup For August 7 To August 14

Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we’ve observed between August 7 and August 14. As with previous roundups, this post isn’t meant to be an in-depth analysis
[Cisco News, August 14th, 2020]

Security Resolutions For Partner Success

It may only be August, but in Cisco time it’s the start of a brand-spanking-new (fiscal) year. As with any changing of calendars, it’s the perfect time to take a step back and re-evaluate our priorities
[Cisco News, August 14th, 2020]

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IBM News

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Coca-Cola European Partners Signs A Multiyear Agreement With IBM To Accelerate Its Strategic Transformation Journey With Hybrid Cloud

Modernize applications using Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux; Digital transformation designed to reduce costs and lay foundations for the future; IBM Services to architect industry-specific new platform around IBM hybrid cloud environment
[IBM News, August 11th, 2020]

Without Data, The Journey To AI Is Like A Trek Through The Desert, Sans Compass

James Fisher & Sons had hearty ambitions to build predictive maintenance capabilities for its customers’ subsea cables — but lacked the right data to do so. In a creative pivot, the IBM Data Science and AI Elite team delivered more than what the heritage engineering company bartered for — with an entire roadmap for their data science strategy
[IBM News, August 14th, 2020]

Workday And IBM Expand Partnership To Help Customers Plan Return To The Workplace

Integrated Planning Solution Combines Power of Workday and IBM Watson-Enabled AI to Help Customers Safely Reopen
[IBM News, August 12th, 2020]

Introducing IBM Knowledge Accelerators For IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog On Cloud Pak For Data

Today IBM announces IBM Knowledge Accelerators, a new content offering delivering an enriched glossary for IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog on IBM Cloud Pak for Data.
[IBM News, August 12th, 2020]

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Dell EMC News

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Reducing Wait Times With A New I/O Bottleneck Buster

The Data Accelerator from Dell Technologies breaks through I/O bottlenecks that impede the performance of HPC workloads
[Dell EMC News, August 11th, 2020]

Dell Technologies Helps Keep Businesses And Innovation Engines Running

Over the past few months, we’ve seen great resolve from our customers and partners as we all work together to overcome a new set of challenges every day.
[Dell EMC News, August 11th, 2020]

Dell EMC Poweredge Brings Flexibility & Freedom To Your Workloads

Most IT professionals know too well the balancing act of wanting to implement cutting-edge, modern solutions while still maintaining control of the overall IT landscape
[Dell EMC News, August 13th, 2020]

Simplify Hybrid Cloud With Dell EMC Poweredge + VMware

With the explosive growth of data fueling today’s global environment, businesses’ ability to readily adapt is becoming more and more critical for survival, and IT managers are under enormous pressure to deliver applications and services that innovate and transform the business.
[Dell EMC News, August 10th, 2020]

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Lenovo News

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Lenovo Delivers Outstanding Q1 Performance And Strong Growth, Overcoming Challenging Global Environment

Group revenue up by almost 7% year-on-year to US$13.3 billion; Pre-tax income (PTI) of US$332 million, up 38% year-on-year
[Lenovo News, August 13th, 2020]

Beyond The Numbers: Lenovo’s 3S Strategy And Service-Led Transformation

Lenovo released its Q1 financial results and a big part of our success stems from the strong execution of our 3S strategy and our ongoing Service-led intelligent transformation
[Lenovo News, August 13th, 2020]

Beyond The Numbers: Services Lead The Next Stage Of Technological Transformation

The impact of information technology on people’s ability to work, communicate, interact and even live has never been more keenly felt that during the last few months
[Lenovo News, August 13th, 2020]

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Red Hat News

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Infusing Your UX Writing With Brand Personality

Brand can often be overused as a content term, but it can be overlooked as a content strategy. Plenty of folks rave about building their brand, promoting their company brand, creating brand recognition, and so on. But how many of those people actually consider the vast array of content channels that should be on-brand?
[Red Hat News, August 13th, 2020]

Boosting Manufacturing Efficiency And Product Quality With AI/ML, Edge Computing And Kubernetes

The manufacturing industry has consistently used technology to fuel innovation, production optimization and operations
[Red Hat News, August 12th, 2020]

Red Hat Insights Delivers Easier RHEL Management With Red Hat Knowledge Base Integration And Enhanced Customer Portal Applications

As a system administrator, working quickly and efficiently is important. There is a good chance that you manage a large estate of Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems and that it continues to grow in complexity. In this post, we’ll look at some ways Red Hat Insights can help you deal with that complexity.
[Red Hat News, August 11th, 2020]

Friday Five – August 14, 2020

The Friday Five is a weekly Red Hat blog post with 5 of the week’s top news items and ideas from or about Red Hat and the technology industry. Consider it your weekly digest of things that caught our eye
[Red Hat News, August 14th, 2020]

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Fortinet News

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Organizations Improve Security Posture With Forticloud’s SaaS Offerings

As organizations look to enhance their on-premises and cloud security, they need the proper tools in place that don’t introduce risks and complexities. A study from IDG found that 48 percent of respondents believe that increased complexity is a primary downside in using multiple clouds.
[Fortinet News, August 14th, 2020]

Phishing In A Pandemic: How To Combat Social Engineering Attacks

Over the past few months, threat intelligence teams around the world have been tracking a significant increase in phishing attacks. These attacks coincide with a temporary drop in more traditional attacks, indicating that attackers, like workers, are modifying their efforts in order to accommodate changes due to the pandemic
[Fortinet News, August 13th, 2020]

Fortiguard Labs Reports Cyber Adversaries Are Exploiting The Global Pandemic At Enormous Scale

Cyber Criminals Targeting Remote Work to Gain Access to Enterprise Networks and Critical Data
[Fortinet News, August 12th, 2020]

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AWS News

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AWS Announces General Availability Of Amazon Braket

Amazon Braket helps developers and researchers get started with quantum computing, providing development tools, simulators, and access to a diverse set of quantum hardware
[AWS News, August 13th, 2020]

Jack In The Box Goes All-In On AWS

One of the nation’s largest restaurant chains leverages AWS to innovate new services and drive operational efficiency across its more than 2,200 restaurants
[AWS News, August 11th, 2020]

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Citrix News

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How Citrix Helps Northcott Deliver A Premium Experience

Paul Herbert is CIO of Northcott, one of Australia’s largest not-for-profit disability service organisations, with more than 2,500 employees across New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory
[Citrix News, August 13th, 2020]

Citrix Provides Security Update On Citrix Endpoint Management

Today we posted a Security Bulletin covering a set of vulnerabilities in certain on-premises instances of Citrix Endpoint Management (CEM), often referred to as XenMobile Server
[Citrix News, August 11th, 2020]

Citrix Tips: Make Your Cloud Migrations Easier Than Ever

Businesses are looking to Citrix Workspace to improve their users’ experience through simpler IT. Customers have also placed a huge emphasis on improving employee productivity through remote work
[Citrix News, August 12th, 2020]

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Dell News

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Dell Latitude 7410 Chromebook Enterprise Released

Dell Technologies and Google announced the latest Chromebook, with the Dell Latitude 7410 Chromebook Enterprise. This marks an expansion of Chrome OS into businesses and enterprises where devices for remote work are looking more attractive by the day
[StorageReview, August 11th, 2020]

New Dell Latitude Chromebook Enterprise Provides The Confidence Businesses Need To Embrace Work From Anywhere

The latest Latitude Chromebook Enterprise enriches the employee experience with sleek, compact design and innovative productivity features with first 4K panel with Low Blue Light technology and the longest battery life on a premium Chromebook
[Dell News, August 11th, 2020]

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DDN News

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DDN AI Storage Gets Faster And Simpler With GPUDirect Storage

DDN breaks its own record performance with DGX A100: 178 GB/s delivered directly to GPUs, 60x more than NFS
[DDN News, August 12th, 2020]

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Veeam News

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Ransomware Is Attacking NAS Data – Are You Prepared?

We know that ransomware is attacking us from all angles. With strains of ransomware and malicious activity exploring new routes to your data, it’s just a matter of time until you and your business are compromised
[Veeam News, August 11th, 2020]

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Datacore News

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The Importance Of Analytics In Data Storage Management

Transform data into insight and information into intelligence with the power of analytics and machine learning
[Datacore News, August 13th, 2020]

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Tintri News

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Enhanced Multiprotocol NAS And Business Continuity Use Cases – Tintri Intelliflash OS Release 3.11.0.0

Tintri is on a roll! Coming on the heels of last month’s Tintri SQL Integrated Storage announcement is the introduction of Tintri IntelliFlash 3.11.0.0
[Tintri News, August 10th, 2020]

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VMware News

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11 Ways To Boost Business Agility and Adapt – Fast

Time and again, organizations that quickly adapt and pivot during periods of rapid change prove the most enduring. When the market fluctuates, these businesses churn out apps and services that reflect customers’ new needs. When the world turns turbulent, leading companies also keep employees safe and productive no matter what
[VMware News, August 11th, 2020]

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Nutanix News

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Nutanix Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Now Available On Amazon Web Services

Nutanix Clusters enables seamless application migration and unified operations across clouds to help businesses accelerate their cloud journey with AWS
[Nutanix News, August 11th, 2020]

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Centrify News

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Centrify Again Named A Leader In 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant For Privileged Access Management

Centrify Recognized as a Leader for PAM for Second Consecutive Time in Gartner’s Evaluation Based on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute
[Centrify News, August 10th, 2020]

Sponsored by BWG Connect

BWG Connect invites senior IT executives to participate in a private, candid, peer-to-peer, interactive industry discussions. Hear from your peers about concrete lessons learned and real-world challenges faced during these unprecedented times.

Each event has room for a limited number of participants (15-25), who participate in moderated discussion led by Greg Irwin, COO at BWG Strategy LLC.

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There are no sales pitches, presentations or costs to join, but space is limited and all participants are subject to BWG approval.

Upcoming Events:

Cybersecurity Implications of COVID-19

BWG invites you to join us for a conversation around how IT leaders are navigating through these unprecedented times. What will be the long-term and short-term impacts of the outbreak? What best practices will guide you through as we recover? Hear from your peers concrete lessons learned and real-world challenges faced.

Tuesday, August 18th, 2020: 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM

Co-hosted by BWG Connect and Cloudflare.

Impact of Covid-19 on SAP Businesses: Near-Term & Long-Term Implications & Innovations

BWG Connect invites you to participate in an interactive discussion with IT professionals. Hear how your peers concrete lessons learned and real-world challenges faced.

Discussion Topics

• How are businesses managing their SAP environments – S-4 Hana, SAP cloud and SAP managed
• Enabling a more digital processes & enterprise
• How SAP businesses are responding to the new-normal – Modified Roadmaps
• Challenges faced and solutions being implemented – Real customer stories

Thursday, August 20th, 2020: 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM

Co-hosted by BWG Connect and T-Systems.

How Outsourcing Identity is Driving Productivity & Enhancing Customer Service

BWG Connect invites senior IT managers to participate in a candid interactive industry discussion. Hear from your peers on the importance of IAM, what does it mean to an end user, what are the challenges companies are currently encountering and solutions being implemented.

Discussion Topics

• Beyond VPN – Permanent web security protocols for a distributed enterprise
• Managing data privacy – Setting identity governance for operations and audits
• Simplify and secure end user experience
• Rapidly growing a digital enterprise experience for customer

Monday, August 31, 2020: 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM EST

Co-hosted by BWG Connect, Auth0, and Amazon Web Services.

Accelerating the New Intelligent Data Center

BWG Connect invites senior IT managers to participate in a candid interactive industry discussion. Hear from your peers about concrete lessons learned & real-world challenges faced during these unprecedented times.

Discussion Topics

• Strategies to transform & improve the efficiency of data centers
• How to keep your network agile and scalablex
• The importance of digital transformation
• What is happening to your Q3/Q4 IT spend to address the crisis
• What initiatives are you deprioritizing/prioritizing
• Achieve data center transformation to lower OPEX, and increase security

Tuesday, September 1, 2020: 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM EST

Co-hosted by NVIDIA & BWG Connect.

Accelerating Your Digital Experience – Leveraging Authentication and Security Management

BWG Connect invites senior IT managers to participate in a candid, peer-to-peer, interactive industry discussion. Hear from your peers on the importance of Digital Transformation, strategies being implemented and challenges being faced!

Discussion Topics

• How authentication and security management are essential for scaling your digital strategies.
• Why Authentication must be the foundation for your Digital Transformation roadmap.
• Pivots being made and challenges face – Real customer anecdotes.
• How are you choosing authentication tools for your organization.
• Digital Transformation implementation – Attrition of value.

Thursday, September 10, 2020: 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM EST

Co-hosted by BWG Connect, Auth0, and Amazon Web Services.

Microsoft News

Microsoft To Continue Discussions On Potential TikTok Purchase In The United States

Following a conversation between Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and President Donald J. Trump, Microsoft is prepared to continue discussions to explore a purchase of TikTok in the United States.

Microsoft Ignite 2020: Empowering The Technical Community To Help Customers Innovate And Rebuild In A Changing World

Because the world is in unchartered territory with COVID-19 impacting people, organizations and economies this year, we’re excited to announce that we’ve pivoted Microsoft Ignite from a week-long, in-person event to two global events that are free, 48-hour digital gatherings

Microsoft Commits To Achieve ‘Zero Waste’ Goals By 2030

Every year, more than 11 billion tons of waste are produced worldwide according to the United Nations Environment Programme

Fortinet News

Fortinet Introduces The World’S First Hyperscale Firewall

FortiGate 4400F is the Only Firewall Capable of Securing Hyperscale Data Centers and 5G Networks, Delivering the Industry’s Highest Performance with Security Compute Ratings of up to 13x

Fortinet Reports Second Quarter 2020 Financial Results

Total revenue of $615.5 million, up 18% year over year – Product revenue of $211.9 million, up 12% year over year – Billings of $711.5 million, up 14% year over year1

Ushering The Era Of Hyperscale Security – The New Fortigate 4400F

Fortinet was built on the premise that a network firewall should not just deliver a full range of tightly integrated network and security functions – a goal that many other NGFW solutions still fail to achieve – but do so with the scale and performance that today’s most demanding hyperscale environments require

Secure SD-WAN Addresses Manufacturing And Services Organization’s Security Challenges

Organizational growth often leads to the rapid expansion of the workforce and the addition of branch offices.

SASE Is All About Delivering Security Everywhere

Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) is an emerging enterprise strategy that incorporates multiple solutions to enable secure remote access to on-premises, cloud-based, and online resources

Red Hat News

Open Source Is More Than Code: Developing Red Hat Satellite Documentation Upstream

The code base for Satellite begins upstream and moves downstream. Until recently, the Satellite documentation did not follow the same journey. In this post, I will outline what has been happening with Satellite documentation over the last year and how this benefits both the Foreman community and Red Hat Satellite users

Deploy Red Hat AMQ Streams In Openshift Backed By Openshift Container Storage

This post will show you how to deploy Red Hat AMQ Streams on Red Hat OpenShift 4 backed by Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage 4. Red Hat AMQ Streams is based on Apache Kafka, a popular platform for streaming data delivery and processing

Friday Five – August 7, 2020

The Friday Five is a weekly Red Hat blog post with 5 of the week’s top news items and ideas from or about Red Hat and the technology industry. Consider it your weekly digest of things that caught our eye

Kubernetes Is The Future: But What Does This Future Look Like?

When industry influencers and CIOs talk about the future of computing, they typically aren’t only discussing hardware advancements or cloud-based software

Red Hat Virtualization: The Now And The Next

We’re excited to announce that Red Hat Virtualization 4.4, the latest update to our mature and trusted virtualization solution for traditional virtual machine (VM)-based workloads, will be generally available this week

Oracle News

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Behind World’s Fastest Supercomputer

RIKEN, the owner of the world’s fastest high-performance computing (HPC) supercomputer, Fugaku, has chosen Oracle Cloud as the public cloud provider for its elastic HPC storage and to enable universities and research organizations to connect securely and at low cost through Science Information Network (SINET)

Oracle Cloud Vmware Solution Now Available In All Global Regions And Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer

Delivers support for scale production VMware workloads in a customer-controlled tenancy – Customers include Entel, largest telecom provider in Chile and the third largest in Peru

Oracle Helps Marketers Navigate Changes And Make Every Customer Interaction Matter

Let’s be honest. 2020 has been a rollercoaster for anyone working in marketing and while you’d be forgiven for hoping to turn over the calendar to 2021, the reality is we are only just over half way through.

Oracle Cloud Expands With Launch Of San Jose Region

Latest Addition Marks 25th Oracle Cloud Region Worldwide and Sixth Oracle-Microsoft Azure Interconnect Location — Customers and Partners KEMET, 8×8, Phenix, CenturyLink, Equinix and Megaport Welcome New Cloud Region

Cisco News

Black Hat 2020 Tackles Big Topics In Security

Journalist Sean Kerner discusses DNS, security in a post-pandemic world, and even a passwordless future

Cisco Collaboration Outlines Blueprint For The Hybrid Workplace

New features and industry firsts help customers keep employees productive in the home office and safer in the workplace

Cisco Completes Acquisition Of Thousandeyes

Cisco will incorporate ThousandEyes capabilities across Cisco’s core Enterprise Networking and Cloud, and AppDynamics portfolios

The Network Week In Review: Aug 3 – Aug 7

This week we see how Valor Games Southeast pivoted their annual sports competition online with Webex, and we check in with Black Hat to learn the latest on cybersecurity and diversity & inclusion in the security industry!

IBM News

Lafargeholcim And IBM Join Forces To Further Develop Oris – The First Digital Materials Platform For Sustainable Road Solutions

LafargeHolcim announces it will work with IBM Services to further develop the first digital platform for road design optimization, ORIS. The solution can reduce road project costs by up to one-third and carbon emissions by up to half while tripling road durability and usage lifespans

Jeffrey Qureshy Empowers His Team With Analytics

This story is part of Analytics Heroes, a series of profiles on leaders transforming the future of business analytics

Virtual Agents Help Businesses Respond During The Pandemic And Thrive In The ‘New Normal’

As COVID-19 spread across the globe, organizations of all shapes and sizes were faced with a deluge of inquiries from customers, employees and the public at large

Lenovo News

Lenovo Enhances Portfolio Of Education Solutions To Meet Evolving Demands Of Hybrid Learning

ew Lenovo 100e 2nd Gen and Lenovo 300e 2nd Gen laptops powered by AMD, as well as a content rich VR education solution, offer students and teachers more options in and outside the classroom this fall

Lenovo’s LanSchool Partners With Dnsfilter To Offer Schools Affordable Content Filtering And Threat Protection

LanSchool and DNSFilter provide powerful digital safety solutions at education-only pricing

Lenovo Introduces One-Stop Iot Solution For Smart Office Buildings Workplaces In China

Lenovo announced an end-to-end IoT Smart Building and Workplace Solution for businesses in China

Dell News

Sweet On Dell Technologies: What We Do Matters

If there’s a bright side to our current global situation, it’s that it has reminded us of our humanity

Michael’s Letter To Team Members

Michael Dell writes, “One of the best parts of my job is meeting our customers and partners where they live and work, and seeing firsthand all the amazing things they are doing with our technology. But like everyone, I’ve been grounded for nearly five months – riding out the pandemic and waiting for everything to get back to normal. But what we’re all coming to realize is that whatever or whenever normal happens, it isn’t going to be anytime soon…”

HP News

HP Advances 3D Printing And Digital Manufacturing Software And Data Platform; Introduces New Partnership With Dyndrite

Deepens Focus on Software and Data for Greater Quality, Performance, Personalization, Automation, and Extensibility for Customers and Partners

HP Pagewide Presses Hit 500B Page Milestone

Graphics Customers Driving Market Volume in Digital Inkjet Printing

Tintri News

What is Intelligent Infrastructure? (Aug 12th Webinar)

Future-Proof Your Storage With NexentaStor

Freedom to choose the storage you need from a proven, trusted software-defined storage portfolio, scale-up or scale-out, file, block and object, to support your legacy and next generations applications to future-proof your storage strategy.

AWS News

AWS Announces General Availability Of AWS Wavelength In Boston And The San Francisco Bay Area

First two AWS Wavelength Zones in Boston and the San Francisco Bay Area enable developers to build applications that deliver ultra-low latency to mobile devices and users by deploying AWS compute and storage at the edge of Verizon’s 5G network

AWS Powers Moderna’S Digital Biotechnology Platform To Develop New Class Of Vaccines And Therapeutics

Biotechnology company leverages AWS’s unmatched portfolio of services to accelerate development of messenger RNA medicines to prevent and fight diseases, including COVID-19

Citrix News

Your Guide To Implementing Citrix Workspace App For HTML5

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the sudden shift to remote work, Citrix customers are moving faster than ever to rapidly to deploy out access to large numbers of users

Technology Tales From The Frontlines Of Healthcare

As we continue to manage uncertainty around the COVID-19 pandemic and settle into to our new normal, one thing is certain: Work life is being redefined in healthcare

Accelerate Your Move To Cloud With Citrix And Google Cloud

Recently Google Cloud announced the general availability of Google Cloud VMware Engine. It’s a service that delivers a fully managed VMware Cloud Foundation stack – VMware vSphere, vCenter, vSAN, NSX-T, and HCX for cloud migration – in a dedicated environment on Google Cloud’s highly performant and reliable infrastructure to support enterprise production workloads, like Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

Nutanix News

Nutanix Infrastructure Powers Siasun Robotics’ Smart Manufacturing

HCI Solutions Accelerate Digital Transformation and Enable Employees to Work from Anywhere for Chinese Robotics Manufacturer

HPE Greenlake With Nutanix Is Ready!

HPE and Nutanix promised to bring as a Service consumption to the Nutanix enterprise cloud platform, and now it’s ready

Dell EMC News

Data Value At The Edge

The Edge, while frequently discussed as something new, is in fact another technical turn of the crank. Fueled by an abundance of smart devices and IoT sensors, worldwide data creation has been growing exponentially, driving our customers and partners to innovate.

Practical Steps To Developing An AI Strategy

What are we in the business of doing? This is the first question organizations should answer when building an AI strategy

VMware News

Global Organizations Choose Vwware Digital Workspace Solutions To Enable A Remote Everything, Future-Ready Workforce

VMware Announces New Workplace Solutions to Help Companies Return Employees to Offices Safely as Economies Reopen and Enable Enhanced Office Experiences

Intel And VMware Extend Virtualization To Radio Access Network Through Broadened Collaboration For 5G

Inteland VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) announced they are collaborating on an integrated software platform for virtualized Radio Access Networks (RAN) to accelerate the rollout of both existing LTE and future 5G networks

RSA News

Opportunities For Risk Management In The ‘Great Reset’

In a few years, it is possible that no one will be speaking of ‘digital transformation’ because the term will have become irrelevant: Non-digital businesses will simply not exist

Bring It On With Instant On: Aruba Delivers Wi-Fi 6 To Small Businesses

Aruba puts the power of Wi-Fi 6 into the hands of small business owners with an update to the Instant On portfolio

HPE News

HPE And SAP Partner To Deliver SAP Hana Enterprise Cloud With HPE Greenlake Cloud Services

The new customer edition of SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud delivered with HPE GreenLake will help customers leverage cloud capabilities while keeping their SAP landscape on-premises, facilitating the move to SAP S/4HANA

PeopleTek News

Integrity Gauge

A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent – Douglas MacArthur, American Five Start General

Kelly Merbler News

Management Is Not Leadership.

I vividly remember when I was first promoted into a management role many moons ago. It was the big moment that I had been working towards since graduating from college. I couldn’t wait to put the title of ‘Manager’ on my business card. Being in my 20’s, this was kind of a big deal for me.

DDN News

When I Benchmark, IT Screams: Getting Infrastructure Right (Aug 18th)

Live Webinar: Join Engineers from Purdue University and NCSA as they discuss best practices for running AI at-scale and dive into their use cases. DDN CTO Bret Weber will also provide exciting DDN technology updates with a roadmap review.

SuperMicro News

Supermicro 60-And 90-Bay Top-Loading Storage Systems For High-Capacity Cloud-Scale Deployments

Leverage multiple expansion options systems available in single-node, dual-node, SBB, or JBOD configurations, supporting up to 1.4PB

Veeam News

How Service Providers Help Protect Remote Worker Data

With everything that’s been happening in the world over the last few months, my company had to make some radical changes in our IT department

Datacore News

Migrating From Storage Silos To Tiered Data Pools (Modernization Without Aggravation)

The topic for our discussion today has a lot to do with modernization, a lot of the things that you’re hearing throughout this Eco Cast has to do with moving to new gear

Julie Kantor News

The Hidden Power Of Storytelling In Corporate Mentorship

Storytelling makes up a significant part of American culture, and has helped shape the American identity for generations

Humor

Wayback Wednesday: There’s Always A Smart Aleck Around

And they are so helpful on the help desk

Flashback Friday: Huh, You Know What Really Bothers Me?

The perils of being considerate

All Together Now

It’s a Saturday in the early ’90s, Solaris 2 is less than a year old, and this pilot fish sysadmin at a company running it on about 25 machines is having his monthly Solaris patching party. Attendees: one fish

AI

AI On The High Seas: Digital Transformation Is Revolutionizing Global Shipping

From unmanned vessels to artificial intelligence applications, digital transformation is giving shipping a 21st-century reboot

Explainable AI: A Guide For Making Black Box Machine Learning Models Explainable

In the future, AI will explain itself, and interpretability could boost machine intelligence research. Getting started with the basics is a good way to get there, and Christoph Molnar’s book is a good place to start

Conversational AI Comes Of Age

The COVID-19 pandemic can have far-reaching effects on how the financial services industry interacts with customers, and service centers equipped with conversational AI will come to the fore

Ways AI Could Be Used To Facilitate Crime Over The Next 15 Years

Fake audio or video content has been ranked by experts as the most worrying use of artificial intelligence in terms of its potential applications for crime or terrorism, according to a new UCL report

HR

IT Skills Shortage Forces Organizations To Prioritize Education

Netwrix conducted studies to understand how the pandemic and ensuing work-from-home initiatives has forced organizations to change their IT priorities since a similar survey at the end of 2019

How To Acquire And Keep Your IT Skills Up To Date

Little, often and varied study is the key to keeping your IT skills up to date in an industry that is constantly changing

As HR Pursues Agility, Lack Of Strategy Stands In Its Way, Gartner Finds

Sixty-three percent of HR leaders surveyed by Gartner have added “agile methods and principles” to their workflows. The change comes alongside a larger movement made by organizations to prioritize agility

There’s No Going Back

The pandemic created a path for companies to fundamentally rethink how work, the office and technology intersect. To ignore the opportunity is to waste it

The Remote Playbook: Navigating The Virtual Job Fair Scene

The Remote Playbook is a regular column for people who manage and oversee remote teams. As a remote worker, CIO Dive’s Roberto Torres can help shed light on the issues and trends impacting the management relationship

Technology

Chromebooks vs Laptops: Which Is The Best For Students?

Which one should students pick?

Audio Deepfakes: Can Anyone Tell If They’re Fake?

Video deepfakes mean you can’t trust everything you see. Now, audio deepfakes might mean you can no longer trust your ears. Was that really the president declaring war on Canada? Is that really your dad on the phone asking for his email password?

ADA-Compliant Websites And How To Make Sure You Have One

Just like there is a need for physical buildings to be ADA-compliant and include accessible entryways and other accommodations, the same needs to be done for websites to make it possible for people with disabilities to more easily navigate a business’ website

FOSS

LibreOffice 7.0

LibreOffice 7.0: the new major release of the best FOSS office suite ever is available on all OSes and platforms, and provides significant new features

LibreOffice 7.0: Now More Microsoft-Compatible — And Still Free

With Microsoft abandoning PC-based office software, if you don’t want to use cloud-based office suites such as Microsoft 365 or G Suite, LibreOffice 7 will be your best desktop office suite choice

The Linux Foundation Announces Collective To Enhance Open Source Software Security

The newly formed Open Source Security Foundation includes titans in technology such as Google, Intel, Microsoft, IBM, and more

Backup

Gartner’s Data Center Backup And Recovery Magic Quadrant Leaders

CRN breaks down the 11 market leaders, including Commvault, Dell Technologies, Rubrik and Veeam, who made Gartner’s 2020 Magic Quadrant for Data Center Backup and Recovery Solutions

The 7 Major Players In Data Center Backup And Recovery Solutions, 2020

These providers have recently been named major players in data center backup and recovery solutions for 2020 by analyst house Gartner, Inc.

Operations

Why You Must Kill Your VPN To Support Remote Work

Organizations must overcome the limitations VPNs to become true digital businesses and rethink how they can better support and secure their remote workforce

DR

When Business Continuity Plans Go Wrong…

A look at when business continuity goes wrong for businesses and the reasons why

Business Continuity Planning: The Pandemic Wake-Up Call

Ensuring continuity of operations in the face of unforeseen disruptions must be a top priority going forward. Is your organization in good shape?

Networks

Nvidia Leads Booming Ethernet Adapter Market

Among the growing list of pandemic-driven technology segments are programable Ethernet adapters being deployed by cloud service providers as they scramble to meet bandwidth demand generated by homes office

Educating Businesses On The Enterprise Benefits Of 5G

Delays to 5G’s rollout would postpone widescale digital transformation for thousands of global businesses

IoT

IoT Data Management Services To Reach $42.9 Billion By 2026

As the IoT data-enabled services continue to expand, the market is approaching the stage of data democratization, where real-time analytics is very sought after

PM

4 Hot Project Management Trends – And 4 Going Cold

The coronavirus pandemic is accelerating a number of project management trends already under way – and greatly altering long-held practices that no longer seem as relevant as remote work rises

Linux

Linux Dominates Supercomputing

The Linux operating system runs all 500 of the world’s fastest supercomputers, which help to advance artificial intelligence, machine learning and even COVID-19 research

Developer

5 Project Management Skills Every Developer Should Have

The days of the siloed project manager and ‘skilled’ development team are becoming a thing of the past, thanks to the increasing complexity of dev projects. In many cases, the knowledge gap between the project manager and the developer is large, making it nearly impossible for any non-technical person to effectively manage the entire scope without significant input from the development team

Careers

Am I Good Enough For A Higher-Level Job?

A reader faces a crisis of self-confidence when considering a higher-level job in the August 4, 2020 Ask The Headhunter Newsletter

Big Data

How Big Data Aids Digital Transformation

Is your organization making the most of big data’s power to reveal digital transformation opportunities?

Compliance

PCI Compliance: 4 Steps To Properly Scope A PCI Assessment

Although it might sound straightforward, scoping a PCI assessment can be a challenge even for experienced organizations. Experts offer their best advice for avoiding PCI missteps

Security

A Patriotic Solution To The Cybersecurity Skills Shortage

Why now is the right time for the security industry to invest in the human capital that will make technology better, smarter, and safer

Tales From The Trenches Show Security Issues Endemic To Healthcare

Datacenters have evolved from physical servers, to virtualized systems, and now to composable infrastructure where resources such as storage and persistent memory are disaggregated from the server

Four In Five IT Sector Firms Have Seen Increase In Cyber Threats – Specops

Research from Specops has found that four in five computer and IT firms (78%) have seen an increase in cyber threats while working from home

Build Shadow It Policy To Reduce Security Risks

Security risks have increased during the pandemic as remote workers try to get things done. Find out how CISOs can better manage by creating a shadow IT policy

How Poor Security Practices From Remote Employees Are Wasting The Time Of IT Staff

Along with the independence remote work affords employees comes the use of shadow IT and poor password practices, according to a new survey by 1Password

3 Tips For Better Security Across The Software Supply Chain

It may sound look intimidating, but with a few tweaks to tools and processes already in use, it’s not hard to get a head start on improving security posture of the software supply chain

Bracing For The Security Data Explosion

Organizations must prepare for collecting, processing, analyzing, and acting upon terabytes of security data

4 In 10 Organizations Punish Staff For Cybersecurity Errors

New research has found that 42% of organizations are taking disciplinary action against staff who make cybersecurity errors

Ransomware: How Clicking On One Email Left A Whole Business In Big Trouble

A food and drink manufacturer fell victim to a ransomware attack and crucially didn’t give into the extortion demand – but it could’ve been much worse

Storage

2020 Vendors To Know: Data Storage

Solutions Review’s listing of the Vendors to Know: Data Storage is a mashup of products that best represent current market conditions, according to the crowd

Cloud

Cybersecurity Must Be At The Centre Of Your Cloud Strategy

NZ is becoming increasingly aware of the risks from cyber attacks. The security alliance with Five Eyes and protection from multinational cybersecurity providers are incredibly important if we want to minimise risk from attacks

5 Critical Capabilities For Multi-Cloud Data Management

Organizations face increasing challenges managing data across multiple clouds. Find out the features to look for in your multi-cloud data management products and services

Public Cloud vs. Private Cloud: Key Benefits And Differences

As cloud services and practices mature, it might be time to rethink some long-held assumptions about the private and public cloud models

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