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NaviSite, Inc., a Time Warner Cable company, expanded its Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) portfolio to layer in a comprehensive suite of managed services, all designed to accelerate adoption of cloud desktops and simplify the associated deployment and management. The Managed DaaS Services portfolio includes:

Virtacore’s partnership with Veeam

Virtacore has been a proud partner with Veeam Software, innovative provider of solutions that deliver Availability for the Modern Data Center. They have leveraged Veeam technology, including Veeam Cloud Connect, to offer backup and disaster recovery services, including cost effective off-site backups that incorporate advanced networking principles to help organizations satisfy the 3-2-1 backup rule.

TechNet Europe 2015 is the first European Geoinformation Symposium and Exposition, which is jointly hosted by AFCEA Europe, the Bundeswehr Geoinformation Centre (BGIC) and the AFCEA Bonn Chapter.

"We’re looking forward to attending another European AFCEA event and engaging with military and government IT professionals to discuss their IT management needs regardless of organisation size or budget," said David Kimball, group vice president, federal and national government, SolarWinds. "Cybersecurity sources and obstacles to threat prevention are top of mind for our IT pros and we’re excited to be presenting on ‘How to fight cybersecurity threats on multiple fronts,’ and looking forward to addressing how insider threats bring a new set of challenges for IT pros."

KEMP Technologies has been previewing its new SDN Adaptive QoE – Quality of Experience – technology at this week’s SDN & OpenFlow World Congress event in Dusseldorf. With growing momentum behind SDN (Software Defined Networking), KEMP’s innovative SDN Adaptive QoE allows IT and network managers to provide guaranteed service level agreements (SLAs) and deliver reliable service quality for end users.

Enhanced application performance and QoE are strategic drivers for adoption of SDN and network virtualization, aligned to OPEX and CAPEX returns. Integration with the SDN fabric allows application traffic of high importance to be prioritized and optimized end-to-end through the network, so that sensitive services including video, voice and conferencing, will not experience disruptive latency and breakup problems.

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Pivot3, a pioneer and innovator in the development of hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) solutions, today released findings of a survey seeking to better understand the major data center challenges faced by IT decision makers in Europe.

According to the research, infrastructure complexity and exponential growth in data storage needs are top concerns for IT decision makers in the UK and Germany. More than 65 percent of survey respondents agree that they are extremely frustrated over the levels of complexity of their data centers, and more than one in three (37.60 percent) respondents say that data protection and security are major challenges.

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Investments in start-ups have always been one of the key growth strategies of salesforce.com, Inc. (CRM – Analyst Report). In this regard, the company’s investment arm, Salesforce Ventures, recently announced its decision to invest $100 million specifically in European start-ups.

Over the past few years, Salesforce has invested in several start-ups, be it through acquisitions or partnerships. However, these were mainly focused on the U.S. According to a report by Tech Crunch, since 2009, Salesforce Ventures has invested about $500 million in over 150 enterprise start-ups. However, only 17 of these were based in Europe, while the rest were from the U.S…

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It seems barely a day goes by without news of a large organisation suffering a data breach as a result of criminal activity. Be it Hilton Hotels, the Office of Personnel Management or Ashley Madison, hackers have been able to break into their networks and steal the private information stored inside.

There has long been an argument over whether data stored in the cloud is more or less secure that that maintained behind the firewalls of the organisation. Cloud vendors unsurprisingly vouch for their services, but CIOs have expressed concerns that cloud computing is reducing their organisation’s control over IT and creating long-term security risks…

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Intel comfortably beat Wall Street estimates on revenue and earnings per share in its third quarter report yesterday, with growth of cloud computing. However profit at $3.1 billion was down 6 per cent from $3.3 billion a year ago. CEO Brian Krzanich said he saw the slumping market for personal computers ”beginning to stabilize” even as the growing needs of the infrastructure that powered the smart and connected world continued to add to Intel’s bottom line.

The chip giant faced challenges in several areas, with a weak market for PCs adding to economic woes in China, a major market, but had balanced that downtrend with growth in sales of chips to data centers, in the Internet of Things business and in memory chip sales.

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Centrify, the leader in securing enterprise identities against cyberthreats, today announced that it has joined Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) as a corporate member. CSA is a not-for-profit organisation that promotes best practices for assuring security of Cloud Computing and provides education on the use of Cloud Computing to help secure all computing. The Centrify Identity Platform protects against the leading point of attack used in data breaches ? compromised credentials — by securing an enterprise’s internal and external users as well as its privileged accounts, through cloud, mobile or on-premise.

Centrify plans to contribute to CSA’s initiatives and share best practices around using identity to define a new security perimeter. Identity-defined security enables IT teams to establish accountability, reduce the attack surface available to hackers and easily prove compliance at any point in time…

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Adaptive Computing, which powers many of the world’s largest private cloud and HPC environments with its Moab optimization and scheduling software, today announced that they have fully deployed Moab 8.1 at the High Performance Computing for Health Sciences, also known as HPC4Health, which today consists of The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and University Health Network’s (UHN) Princess Margaret Cancer Centre.

HPC4Health is part of a larger vision, which also includes Compute Canada and Compute Ontario, to bring multiple organizations together to share resources dynamically, securely and equitably. Moab HPC Suite, Enterprise Edition, version 8.1 (Moab) has been deployed for its elastic computing, advanced policies and accounting capabilities to deliver on this vision…