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  • Roundtable: Security Guide for the Cloud - right here, right now

    By Jennifer O'Brien | 07 June, 2011 15:15

    The cloud 'security strategy' involves adopting security solutions that seamlessly span physical, virtual and private/hybrid/public cloud environments while simplifying operational and management complexities. Roundtable attendees got down to business, discussion the 'practical steps' and issues and opportunities involved in securing the cloud environment. Jennifer O'Brien reports.

  • Selling security to SMBs

    By Nadia Cameron | 02 July, 2009 10:40

    ARN pulled together a panel of industry representatives to discuss how to position security solutions successfully to 5-499 seat organisations in today’s economic climate. This roundtable was held in conjunction with Symantec.

  • The future of IT security

    By ARN Staff | 07 May, 2008 12:05

    The ARN round table was held in conjunction with Firewall Systems and its vendor partners, AirMagnet, Blue Coat, Check Point, Network Box, TippingPoint and WatchGuard.

Features
Interviews
  • Channel chat: Changing lanes to CA

    By Patrick Budmar | 06 June, 2013 10:51

    After the departure of Symantec director of channel and alliances, Jeff Arndt, CA Technologies A/NZ channel director, Klasie Holtzhausen, made the jump to the security vendor. ARN caught up with him to find out why.

  • How Blackstone is finding BYOD success with BYOA(pple)

    By Joan Goodchild | 04 March, 2013 17:16

    Bill Murphy, CTO and managing director at Blackstone, a global investment and advisory firm, knew he wanted to find a way to allow employees to use their own devices for work. The demand was there, and he was increasingly hearing about how adding in BYOD would help productivity.

  • Intel/McAfee: What's the future of security?

    By Ellen Messmer | 05 July, 2012 16:27

    Intel completed its multibillion-dollar acquisition of McAfee almost a year and a half ago, and this week McAfee co-President Mike DeCesare spoke with Network World senior editor Ellen Messmer about what the merger of Intel's chip-making capabilities and McAfee's security expertise is expected to bring down the road.

  • Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst weighs in on strategy, Oracle and growth

    By Chris Kanaracus | 28 June, 2012 14:51

    Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst is coming up on his five-year anniversary at the helm, following his arrival in December 2007. Under Whitehurst's leadership, Red Hat's revenue has grown from US$523 million in its fiscal 2008 to more than $1.1 billion in its fiscal 2012, without deviating from its core strategy of open-source infrastructure software.

  • Palo Alto Networks: Challenging the incumbents

    By Patrick Budmar | 09 May, 2012 08:31

    Founder, Nir Zuk, on the vendor’s approach to the local market

Opinions
Reviews
  • Cisco impresses with first crack at next-gen firewall

    By Joel Snyder | 17 June, 2013 11:23

    When we tested next-generation firewalls last May, at least one important security vendor wasn't there: Cisco, because they weren't ready to be tested. Now that the ASA CX next-generation firewall has had a year to mature, we put the product through its paces, using the same methodology as our last NGFW test.

  • Virtualization showdown: Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 vs. VMware vSphere 5.1

    By Paul Ferrill | 24 April, 2013 10:18

    Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V brings advanced virtualization features to small shops, but VMware still reigns at the high end

  • Review: Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 narrows the gap

    By Paul Ferrill | 24 April, 2013 10:18

    Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V combines easy setup and management with new features that lower the entry barrier to highly available virtualization clusters

  • Cisco edges F5 in VPN shootout

    By Susan Perschke | 22 April, 2013 14:04

    Connecting remotely to network servers is a fact of life for millions of end users. Whether working from a PC or a mobile device, users rely on secure, reliable remote connections to maintain their productivity.

  • Java security questions answered

    By Susan Perschke | 22 April, 2013 10:57

    Most of the products tested (except Windows Server 2012), use Oracle's Java in one form or another, at least for client access and also in some cases within the management interface. With numerous vulnerabilities recently discovered in Java, leading to guidance from Department of Homeland Security and others to disable it entirely, this raised some questions about usability and possibly even security of the devices tested.

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