7 Biggest Stories of the Week, April 13-17
Who's ready for the weekend? Show of hands, please. But first let's check out The VAR Guy's seven biggest stories for the week ending April 17.
April 17, 2015
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Who's ready for the weekend? Show of hands, please. But first let's check out The VAR Guy's seven biggest stories for the week ending April 17.
Nokia (NOK) said it will acquire French networking equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) for some $16.6 billion in an all share deal the Finnish manufacturer said positions the combined entity to capitalize on technological innovations such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and the transition to the cloud.
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Reuters reported late last week that Symantec (SYMC) has approached storage providers EMC (EMC), NetApp (NTAP) and a number of private equity firms with trial balloons to test the market for a Veritas sale.
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Kurt DelBene, who was tapped by U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebilius in December, 2013, to fix the Affordable Care Act’s non-functioning website just months after retiring from Microsoft (MSFT), has returned to Redmond to advise chief executive Satya Nadella on business and technology strategy.
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Linux 4.0 made its official debut this week. Spoiler alert: The version number in this newest latest iteration of the open source operating system kernel doesn't mean it's actually four times better than version 1.0—or, for that matter, twice as good as the 2.x series, which was the longest-running in Linux's history. But it is a tight, stable release, according to developer Linus Torvalds.
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Security intelligence solution provider FireMon has appointed former FishNet Security executives Brandy Peterson and John Van Blaricum to its executive team. Peterson will assume the role of chief technology officer, with Van Blaricum stepping in as vice president of Marketing. Both men began their new positions in February.
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Millennials are the primary group of workers who are creating gaps in enterprise network security practices, according to a new study from Aruba Networks (ARUN).
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Millennials are the primary group of workers who are creating gaps in enterprise network security practices, according to a new study from Aruba Networks (ARUN).
Read the story here.
Who's ready for the weekend? Show of hands, please. But first let's check out The VAR Guy's seven biggest stories for the week ending April 17.
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