Year: 2014
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Hortonworks Expands Its Tech Certification Program
Categories: Tech CompaniesJust weeks after raising new capital via its IPO, Hortonworks extended the number of technology certifications it provides as part of an effort to make it simpler to integrate its distribution of Hadoop with a wider variety of IT environments. The company aims to ensure that products and technologies awarded the new certifications—which include HDP… Read more
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What IT Decision-Makers Want From Cloud Vendors
Categories: Cloud ComputingVendors and customization Shift to Cloud Three-quarters of IT decision-makers said they’ve migrated more than 25% of their IT structure to the cloud and 31% have migrated more than half of their IT structure to the cloud. Reliability and Business Continuity 47% are seeking greater IT reliability and business continuity through their cloud strategy. IaaS… Read more
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Crossing the Great Mobile Divide
Categories: Mobile DevicesCrossing the Great Mobile Divide IT View of the Mobile Agenda A full 66.9% of IT decision-makers feel that IT sets the mobile agenda, but 30.6% said it’s actually the line of business. Developer View of Mobile Agenda Most developers (49.7%) said line of business sets the agenda versus the internal IT organization (34.6%), but… Read more
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Time to Circle the Security Intelligence Wagons
Categories: SecurityOne of the problems with being a solution provider responsible for IT security is being outgunned. The perpetrators of digital crimes are not only well organized; they also have access to highly automated tools and share vulnerability intelligence with each other. As a result, solution providers have a vested interest in helping customers circle the… Read more
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CompTIA Expands Its CertMaster Portfolio
Categories: CareersCompTIA Adds to Its CertMaster Porfolio CompTIA has expanded its CertMaster portfolio with a new course. The new CompTIA IT Fundamentals certification provides coursework in the basics of computing technology and covers a range of IT topics. The certification targets organizations that want to verify basic fluency in IT terminology and concepts among their employees, as… Read more
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Coming to Terms With AWS for Data Protection
Like it or not Amazon Web Services is now a force to be reckoned with inside and out of the channel. In fact, the only real question facing solution providers in the channel is how to harness massive cloud services such as AWS. Case in point is Fronde, which just launched a hybrid cloud backup… Read more