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Firewalls

Fortinet reports total revenue of $615.5 million

Strong demand for secure SD-WAN and work-from-home capabilities helped power 18% second quarter revenue growth.

By Shannon Williams • 4 min read • Fri, 7th Aug 2020

Partner Programmes

InfoTrust named Mimecast's ANZ Growth Partner of the Year

The award reflects InfoTrust's customer-centric approach with a focus on optimising ROI for customers' security investments, the company says.

By Shannon Williams • 2 min read • Fri, 7th Aug 2020

Virtualisation

Veeam reports biggest second quarter in company history

Veeam Software reports a 20% YoY increase in annual recurring revenue for Q2'20, its biggest second quarter ever.

By Shannon Williams • 3 min read • Wed, 5th Aug 2020

Apple

COVID-19 hits smartphone market hard, with all but Apple sales down

Apple defied the impact of COVID-19 on the smartphone market, as sales dropped for all vendors except them, says Canalys.

By Catherine Knowles • 3 min read • Tue, 4th Aug 2020

Public Cloud

Cognizant snaps up Microsoft specialists New Signature

Cognizant acquires cloud-native company New Signature to expand its Microsoft cloud solutions. The acquisition is expected to close in Q3 2020.

By Catherine Knowles • 3 min read • Thu, 30th Jul 2020

Data Loss Prevention

Interview: Acronis co-founder on going all-in for DLP

Acronis co-founder Stas Protassov discusses the crucial role of data loss prevention (DLP) amidst soaring cyber-attack costs, driven by internal threats.

By Nick Forrester • 4 min read • Tue, 28th Jul 2020

Data Analytics

How Workday's HR tools helped McMillan Shakespeare weather the COVID-19 storm

McMillan Shakespeare Limited (MMS) successfully navigated the challenges of COVID-19 with the help of Workday's human capital management system.

By Staff Writer • 3 min read • Tue, 28th Jul 2020

Firewalls

Fortinet acquires OPAQ Networks to bolster SASE offering

Customers of the companies can now leverage firewall and SD-WAN capabilities, web security, browser isolation, multi-cloud workload protection, and more.

By Staff Writer • 2 min read • Wed, 22nd Jul 2020

Software-as-a-Service

Datto acquires Aussie procurement platform, Gluh

Gluh's SaaS platform automates the processes of product selection, quoting, and sales of IT products and services for MSPs.

By Staff Writer • 2 min read • Tue, 21st Jul 2020

Firewalls

Fortinet scoops commercial marketplace award at Microsoft partner awards

Fortinet has won Microsoft's 2020 Commercial Marketplace Partner of the Year award, highlighting its commitment to securing Azure workloads.

By Shannon Williams • 3 min read • Mon, 20th Jul 2020

Unified Communications

How technology is driving a better way to work

Technology has long been feared as a job-stealer, but new tech like AI and automation can actually improve work conditions for employees.

By Eric Holtsmark • 3 min read • Fri, 17th Jul 2020

DataCentre infrastructure

Data centre market holds strong amid wider economic outlook

Investors and developers are 'bullish' about the economic prospects of the data centre industry despite the overall impact of COVID-19 on the economic climate.

By Staff Writer • 2 min read • Fri, 17th Jul 2020