• AWS Makes New Amazon EC2 Instances Available to Process Large Amounts of Data, Faster

    Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN), announced general availability of a new high frequency instance (z1d) for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), as well as the next generation of memory optimized instances (R5) and memory optimized instances with local storage (R5d). z1d instances are designed for workloads requiring the highest single-threaded performance along with a…


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  • New F5 Security Products and Threat Research Enhance App Protection

    F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV) introduced new offerings that provide advanced access controls and dedicated SSL visibility with orchestration capabilities to help thwart today’s most sophisticated cyber attacks. In addition, F5 Labs has published its 2018 Application Protection report, exploring the many different types of application-based threats that modern organizations face.

    “Applications are everywhere, and increasingly interrelated, with many added capabilities…


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  • WhiteHat Security Adds Seasoned Executive Marketing Leader to Increase Global Visibility

    WhiteHat Security, the leading application security provider committed to securing digital businesses, today announced the appointment of Matthew Hutchinson to its executive leadership team. Hutchinson has been named vice president of marketing and is reporting directly to WhiteHat Chief Revenue Officer Matt Handler.

    The addition of Hutchinson allows WhiteHat to further integrate global business and marketing operations and increase the…


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  • Western Digital Introduces New Dual-Port SAS SSD for Servers and Storage Arrays with Best-in-Class Performance

    Western Digital Corporation (NASDAQ: WDC), a data technology leader, today introduced the new Ultrastar DC SS530 SAS SSD, the company’s highest-density drive and the fastest dual-port SAS SSD in the market¹, enabling server and storage array manufacturers to offer customers substantially lower data center TCO for Fast Data applications. By doubling maximum capacity of the previous generation to 15.36TB…


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  • Central Logic Names Scott Booher COO, Strengthening Leadership Team

    Central Logic, the pioneer and leading innovator in transfer center software solutions, announced today that Scott Booher has joined the company as Chief Operating Officer (COO). In this position, he oversees several critical areas, including product, engineering, IT infrastructure and client success.

    “Scott is a seasoned executive and trusted leader who consistently delivers results,” says Central Logic CEO Angie Franks….


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  • Slow Websites Are Silent Killers for Businesses

    Over 80% of consumers are more frustrated by consistently slow websites than those that are temporarily down. That’s according to a global online study today from Eggplant, the customer experience optimization specialists.

    Eggplant polled a combined total of 3,200 UK and US adults on attitudes to website speed and performance, and found that a business with a…


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  • McAfee and LG Collaborate to Deliver Enhanced Parental Controls to LG Smartphone Users

    McAfee, the device-to-cloud cybersecurity company, today announced an extension of its collaboration with LG to pre-load McAfee Safe Family on the LG G7 ThinQ, Q7, Q7+, and Q Stylus in 32 European countries. Additionally, all subsequently released LG smartphones will have McAfee Safe Family pre-loaded. With this partnership, LG smartphone users will benefit from robust parental controls that will…


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  • Toshiba Announces 14TB HDD Availability on Select Supermicro Storage Servers

    Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (“TAEC”) today announced that Super Micro Computer, Inc. has successfully qualified the MG07ACA Series 14TB1 and 12TB HDD SATA models on select Supermicro storage server platforms. Using a 9-disk, helium-sealed design, the new MG07ACA Series provides power-efficient capacity and storage density, which is now available on Supermicro’s popular SuperStorage (SSG) line-up of server platforms….


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