In Case You Missed It: This Week in Tech News
We try to stay away from roundups on TVG, but come Friday, there are always a slew of stories we didn't get to mention. Click through to see the top five stories you should read as you head into your weekend.
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Though it’s just about as far-removed from channel IT as news can get, we can’t in good conscious end the week without talking about James Comey’s testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday. The hearing is the biggest news item to date in a year when the current White House administration seems intent on giving the pundits something to new to gasp over on a frequent basis, and the Twittersphere exploded with reactions.
So many people flocked to the Columbia Law School website looking for the unnamed friend Comey said he leaked an internal memo to that it crashed. Service providers in the NYC area take note: the school may be looking to upgrade its systems if it wants to stay up and running throughout the Russia investigation. (Okay, we know it was a stretch, but there’s your channel tie-in.)
IBM, Samsung and GlobalFoundries teamed up to develop a new fingernail-sized microprocessor chip that can hold 30 billion switches. The chip, announced this week, may mean the we’ve been saved from death of Moore’s Law just in the nick of time. The tech may lead to new processors just 5 nanometers big in a few years. The development might enable a 40 percent performance improvement over current 10nm chip designs — but using the same amount of power.
A year after acquiring network defense firm Blue Coat, cybersecurity giant Symantec is bristling its feathers. In an engaging conversation with Fortune’s Robert Hackett this week, Symantec CEO Greg Clark says the last year he’s been at the help has been one of the best in his career because of the technical capabilities of the company.
“On the enterprise side, we’ve transformed Symantec’s ability to compete and we've proven to the industry that we are an innovator. We’ve also turned the company around toward a growth trajectory. Our enterprise business is very well set up over the next couple of years,” he said.
When competitors try to say Symantec isn’t keeping up or lost some of its youthful agility, Clark brushes it off.
“These [competitors] have come up like mushrooms after a rainstorm and they get some hype. It’s not about Symantec keeping up. Symantec is the leader in signature detection right now,” he said. “One of the things that you have to realize about Symantec is that we were never sitting still.”
Security startup Netskope raised $100 million in funding on Tuesday. The five-year-old company created by Juniper Networks veteran Sanjay Beri aims to take on industry giants like Symantec. It acts as a gatekeeper between its customers and cloud-based applications like Salesforce, creating a protective buffer.
“Cloud has disrupted everything,” Beri told our sister site MSPmentor. “Security is no different; your traditional security products aren’t set up to [provide] visibility into what cloud does.”
Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference usually doesn’t have a whole lot to do with the channel. But taken with some other news from Intel and AMD this week, an interesting trend emerges. In an IT landscape where shrinking hardware margins have been a source of major concern for years, we may be seeing a new market emerge in the form of “prosumers.”
The two rival chipmakers are duking it out over these high-end computer users. Last week, Intel announced the new Intel Core i9 Extreme processor, a CPU with 18 cores, capable of executing 36 simultaneous threads, similar to AMD’s high core processor, the 16 Threadripper, which boasts an 18 Core, Teraflop i9.
At WWDC, Apple shone a bright spotlight on its hardware, unveiling the new iMac Pro, updating its entire notebook line, and introducing the new iPad Pro and productivity software features.
Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference usually doesn’t have a whole lot to do with the channel. But taken with some other news from Intel and AMD this week, an interesting trend emerges. In an IT landscape where shrinking hardware margins have been a source of major concern for years, we may be seeing a new market emerge in the form of “prosumers.”
The two rival chipmakers are duking it out over these high-end computer users. Last week, Intel announced the new Intel Core i9 Extreme processor, a CPU with 18 cores, capable of executing 36 simultaneous threads, similar to AMD’s high core processor, the 16 Threadripper, which boasts an 18 Core, Teraflop i9.
At WWDC, Apple shone a bright spotlight on its hardware, unveiling the new iMac Pro, updating its entire notebook line, and introducing the new iPad Pro and productivity software features.
We try to stay away from roundups on TVG, but come Friday, there are always a slew of stories we didn't get to mention. Click through to see the top five stories you should read as you head into your weekend.
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