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API Management to Become a Managed Service
As the so-called API economy continues to evolve and expand, many organizations are soon going to find themselves challenged when it comes to managing hundreds, if not thousands, of application programming interfaces. Right now, most of the support for those APIs comes from vendors, such as Dell, which provides access to API management tools via…
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EMV Chip-Card Deadline Creates Channel Mandate
Your customers who accept credit cards as payment need to be EMV-compliant, and the closer they get to achieving compliance by the Oct. 1, 2015, deadline, the better. Many companies will not meet the deadline for new fraud-liability rules and will have to scramble to address the new requirements. EMV is the new Europay-MasterCard-Visa protocol…
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How Cloud, IoT Are Altering the Security Landscape
Security threats How Cloud, IoT Are Altering the Security Landscape Cyber-threats continue to evolve as businesses adopt public clouds and IoT devices. Here’s why businesses should pay more attention to security. Ransomware on the Rise New ransomware samples increased 58% in Q2 from Q1 due to fast-growing new families, including CTB-Locker and CryptoWall. The total…
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AVG Aims to Take the Pain Out of Remote Control
Looking to make it much simpler for managed service providers (MSPs) to provide remote services, AVG Technologies released an upgrade to its remote management and monitoring platform that now includes the ability to take control of a remote desktop for free. Version 9.2 of AVG Business Managed Workplace now includes remote control software developed by…
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In Search of a Context-Aware Security Strategy
Context-aware security In Search of a Context-Aware Security Strategy Seeking to strike a balance between security and end-user productivity, many firms are looking for some form of context-aware security, which prioritizes threats. IT Security Priorities IT pros (87%) and business execs (86%) agree that IT security is a much higher priority than end-user convenience. IT…
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IBM and Cisco Focusing on Converged Tech for MSPs
IBM recently teamed up with Cisco to launch VersaStack, a pre-engineered, tested and supported system that leverages Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) Integrated Infrastructure with IBM’s Storwize storage system technology and storage arrays. Designed to operate as a “data center in a box,” the technology is being embraced by managed service providers (MSPs), including iVirtualize in…
