Ergo

Ergo | November 30, 2016

“Security is a primary focus,” said Steve Blanche, chief technical officer at Ergo Group. As well it might be. As one of Ireland’s leading cloud and IT managed services providers, Ergo promotes not only the benefits of cloud computing, but also impresses upon clients that security must be taken seriously. In part, this is a way of overcoming the initial resistance to the cloud, but it is also a recognition of today’s always-online business environment....

| May 26, 2016

"Originally announced at CES in January, the minuscule HopperGo is a 64GB USB drive with a built in wireless access point. The little device connects to your Dish Hopper 3 or Hopper 2 – essentially Dish’s DVR – and sucks down up to 100 hours of TV. You can then unplug the little bugger and watch for four hours on one charge through the Dish Anywhere app. When I first pulled this little thing out of the box I thought they had sent the wrong thing. It is truly tiny – about as big as an Altoids ti...

sdxcentral.com | January 23, 2020

Arista Networks bought SDN vendor Big Switch Networks, according to sources familiar with the deal.The purchase is Arista’s largest acquisition to date, according to a source. It’s also the networking vendor’s third acquisition Arista in 2018 snapped up cloud-managed WiFi firm Mojo Networks and then a month later bought Metamako, a provider of low-latency field programmable gate array (FPGA) products.While Arista ultimately won, Big Switch had a long list of suitors that wanted...

bloomberg.com | January 21, 2020

Google signed a 10-year deal with travel-software provider Sabre Corp., a key win for the search giant in the competitive cloud-computing market.Sabre will pay Google to handle parts of its information-technology system and for data-analytics tools. Additionally, the companies agreed to collaborate on online travel services, a sign of Google leaning on its massive consumer business to lure enterprise clients.Sabre and Alphabet Inc.’s Google announced the partnership on Tuesday as a “...