Facebook ‘unfriends’ Australia: uproar as news pages go dark

Facebook faced backlash from publishers and politicians on Thursday after blocking news feeds in Australia in a surprise escalation of a dispute with the government…

SolarWinds hacked from inside U.S., 100+ orgs compromised

The likely Russian hackers behind the SolarWinds campaign launched their attack from inside the United States to complicate. government efforts to observe their activity. Nine…

How This Startup Aims To Help Firms Control Google Cloud Spending

Many companies may find it easy to migrate and operate in the cloud, but one issue still remains: how to control the associated costs. As…

Palo Alto Networks To Buy Bridgecrew For $156M To Secure Cloud

Palo Alto Networks has agreed to purchase early stage startup Bridgecrew to deliver cloud security across the full application life cycle by codifying infrastructure configuration…

Pure Storage Beefs Up FlashBlade, FlashArray Lines

All-flash storage technology developer Pure Storage Tuesday updated its Purity storage operating systems for its FlashArray block storage array and FlashBlade file and object storage array with an eye…

Avaya CEO Jim Chirico On How Channel Restructure Will Improve ‘Velocity And Speed’ Of Business

Chirico On Channels Once a premise-based unified communications (UC) giant, Avaya has spent the last three years bouncing back from bankruptcy and moving full-speed ahead…

Gigabyte: COVID-19 Surge At L.A. Ports Delaying Shipments

Server and PC components vendor Gigabyte said it is experiencing “serious” delays in product shipments due to a slowdown in container processing at the twin…

Bumble IPO makes CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd youngest woman billionaire

The IPO of dating app Bumble and the phenomenal response to it has made the company’s founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Whitney Wolfe Herd…

Ivanti Snags VMware’s Erik Randles To Lead Global Channels

Fast-growing automation vendor Ivanti has brought in former VMware go-to-market leader Erik Randles to help integrate the Ivanti, MobileIron and Pulse Secure partner programs together. …

Secure Edge OS Blockbuster: TA Associates Buys IGEL, Adds Software Superstar Bill Veghte

TA Associates – the highly respected growth-oriented, private equity software investor – has acquired secure edge OS powerhouse IGEL and added former Microsoft software superstar…