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Cisco plans to rely more heavily on selling products as services and will make 10-figure cost reductions to deal with a FY2020 revenue drop of 5% that it blames on COVID-19. When you think of Cisco, the first thing that comes to mind is switches the size of a refrigerator, but on the company’s Q4 … Read more
Lessons learned to date promise to help IT weather a second round of COVID-19 lockdowns this winter. Following a few basic suggestions could spell the difference between a trouble-free transition to remote teams and a viral meltdown. While the COVID-19 outbreak is far from over, even more trouble may suddenly arrive in the not-too-distant future. … Read more
Security professionals face challenges in keeping pace with cloud deployments and migrations, and the additional security threats they open up. Misconfiguration, unauthorised access and account hijacking are the most pressing of a number of threats to public cloud environments, which are now reaching a level where security operations are finding it more and more of a … Read more
With budgets uncertain and project priorities pivoting in the wake of the pandemic, IT leaders are finding several key areas worth investing in. For many IT departments, the pandemic and its economic repercussions have led to constrained spending on technology products and services — if not outright budget cuts. This is leading many IT leaders … Read more
A further increase in cyber attacks exploiting the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic is highly likely in the near future, especially if there is substantial progress towards a vaccine, according to Interpol. The organisation said that should a vaccine become available, it was highly probable that there will be a second spike in phishing attacks related to vaccines and other … Read more
With the rapid expansion of public cloud services to support a newly remote workforce, many enterprises are looking to cut some costs. It’s pretty significant when the Wall Street Journal talks about cloud issues, and this story (behind a paywall) is no different. The gist is that as enterprises support a mostly remote workforce with cloud computing, … Read more
Cisco has issued a number of critical security advisories for its data center manager and SD-WAN offerings that customers should deal with now. Cisco has issued a number of critical security advisories for its data center manager and SD-WAN offering customers should deal with now. On the data center side, the most critical – with a … Read more
Microsoft publishes an “End of Service” date for each version of Windows 10. While you might think you can hold onto your version of Win10 until that date, Microsoft starts pushing you onto the next version four months early. That takes a big bite out of the promised 18-month lifespan. Windows 10 version 1809 Home … Read more
A recent job posting by Microsoft indicates the company may be crafting a new device-as-a-service subscription offer for Microsoft 365 customers that won’t actually include the device. Microsoft may be crafting a new subscription offer for Microsoft 365 customers that will be, for all intents and purposes, a device-as-a-service minus the, well, devices. According to … Read more
IT vendors are offering billions in financial aid to keep enterprise IT sales from being canceled and partners afloat, but do they benefit customers? In the wake of coronavirus-related shutdowns that have wreaked havoc on the global economy, IT giants including Cisco, Dell, HPE, and IBM have launched multi-billion-dollar financing programs for customers and channel … Read more
