Bi-Monthly Computer Networking/IT Industry Updates (Oct. 26 – Nov. 08, ’15)

Hello,

Welcome to bi-monthly Computer Networking/IT industry updates. In this edition, you’ll find some interesting news, product releases by the vendors in our industry over the last two weeks (October 26 to November 08, 2015).

#1. Ruckus Wireless Introduces Virtual SmartZone, a virtual data plane for WiFi to segregate data traffic from control traffic on large networks. Read more…

#2. Atos to Acquire Unify from The Gores Group and Siemens. More…

#3. Barracuda adds new models for its Barracuda NextGen Firewall Series: These are the new desktop appliance models: F18, F80, F180, F280 aimed at branch offices that rely on cloud-based services. Read more…

#4. Riverbed, the sponsor of Wireshark, announces Wireshark 2.0: The new UI and other functionality for this popular open source network analysis software will be introduced through a webinar on Nov. 12. More…

#5. Cyber Threat Alliance releases report on, ‘Lucrative Ransomware attacks: Analysis of the Cryptoware Version 3 Threat. You can download it from here. (PDF, via Fortinet)

#6. Symantec Introduces ATP, Symantec Advanced Threat Protection, which — according to the company — can detect and remediate advanced threats across control points from a single console. Read more…

#7. GMail to ‘Smart Reply’ to your emails: If you use Gmail, the system will automatically suggest replies to certain types of mails which you could send by pushing a button. Useful if you use gmail as your work mail and you are on the move. More…

excITingIP.com

You could stay up to date on Computer Networking/IT by subscribing to this blog with your email address in the sidebar box that says, ‘Get email updates when new articles are published’.