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Dell EMC Enhances VxRail With Greater Automation, Easier Management

Today’s topics include Dell EMC expanding its integration with VMware technologies, and TriggerMesh launching its Kubernetes-based serverless management platform. At the VMworld 2018 Europe show this week in Barcelona, Spain, Dell EMC unveiled enhancements to the VxRail hyperconverged infrastructure offerings that are designed to drive greater automation, easier management and more adoption of the solutions. […]

T-Mobile Offers Help Desk to Small Businesses Lacking IT Support

Today’s topics include T-Mobile rolling out an inexpensive help desk for small businesses, and Thoma Bravo acquiring Veracode from Broadcom for $950 million. T-Mobile has begun a new service for business customers with T-Mobile One voice service called the T-Mobile for Business Help Desk to help small businesses with IT support. The service is starting […]

Apple Patches Critical iOS, macOS and watchOS Flaws

Today’s topics include Apple patching critical iOS and macOS flaws, and Microsoft releasing a roadmap for Visual Studio 2019 improvements. Apple on Oct. 30 released a series of critical security updates to its macOS, iOS and watchOS operating systems that fix high-impact flaws. Such flaws include remote code execution issues that could enable attackers to […]

Apple Updates MacBook Air, Mac Mini and iPad Pro

Today’s topics include Apple updating the MacBook Air, Mac Mini and iPad Pro, and Bleedingbit Bluetooth vulnerabilities exposing WiFi access points to risk. Apple on Oct. 30 announced some important updates to the MacBook Air, Mac Mini and iPad Pros to compete with existing hardware from other manufacturers. The Mac Mini has moved even more […]

Cray Unveils Exascale Supercomputer for Running Complex Workloads

Today’s topics include Cray unveiling its first exascale supercomputer, Shasta, and LogRhythm advancing its NextGen SIEM security platform with security orchestration, automation and response features. Cray officials have unveiled Shasta, the company’s first exascale-capable supercomputer. Shasta is aimed at simplifying computing for modern workloads that typically run on heterogeneous cluster systems, which Cray officials argue […]

Customers Rank Trust Over Technology, LinkedIn Sales Report Finds

According to LinkedIn’s annual State of Sales report that surveyed more than 500 sales pros and 500 buyers in August 2018, establishing customer trust outranks technology itself in keeping and maintaining customers. In the survey, 40 percent of sales professionals ranked trust as the No. 1 factor in closing deals, placing it ahead of both […]

Facebook Moves Swiftly to Limit Inauthentic Behavior on Social Network

Today’s topics include Facebook limiting inauthentic behavior, and Jamf releasing its Setup and Reset apps for iOS device management. As part of a renewed effort to restore confidence in its platform ahead of the upcoming midterm elections in the United States, Facebook on Oct. 26 announced that it has removed 82 pages, groups and accounts […]

Microsoft Adds Wide Range of Updates to SharePoint Server 2019

Today’s topics include Microsoft rolling out SharePoint Server 2019 with ease of use features, and Dell releasing three new rugged enterprise notebooks. Microsoft’s SharePoint Server 2019 is now generally available with a wide range of improvements from the server product introduced at Microsoft Ignite earlier in 2018. Built on the same core platform as SharePoint […]

Apple’s Cook Calls for National Privacy Law Similar to GDPR

Today’s topics include Apple’s Tim Cook calling for a national privacy law like Europe’s GDPR, and the Department of Defense expanding its bug bounty program. On Oct. 24 in the European Parliament in the Espace Léopold in Brussels, Belgium, Apple CEO Tim Cook forcefully called for a global movement to protect privacy similar to what […]

IBM Strikes Deal to Buy Linux and Cloud Vendor Red Hat for $34B

Today’s topics include IBM acquiring Red Hat for $34 billion, and humanization being key to making artificial intelligence successful. IBM is acquiring Linux and cloud technology vendor Red Hat for $34 billion in hopes of transforming the cloud landscape, the two companies announced on Oct. 28. The acquisition is an all-cash deal that values Red […]