August 2017

WatchGuard’s New Fireboxes Chew Through Encrypted Traffic 94 Percent Faster Than Competitors

15 August 2017 – WatchGuard® Technologies has announced hardware upgrades to its Firebox® M Series to handle the rapid proliferation of encrypted web traffic and offer more flexibility. With the new M470, M570 and M670 appliances, users can add additional network modules to increase the number of copper or fibre ports available to support the growing use of 10G fibre in midsize enterprise data centres. The new Firebox M Series appliances also enable users to inspect encrypted traffic with industry-leading performance with all security services enabled. According to Miercom, an independent testing lab, the updated Firebox M370 performs full HTTPS inspection 94% faster than competing solutions.

Report: Brand mentions on Instagram Stories vs. Snapchat among influencers

August 9, 2017 --- Snaplytics is a marketing platform for new social channels including Snapchat and Instagram stories. In August they will launch their Brand Listening service to analyze brands share of voice among influencers and which influencers are most active on the story based platforms.

Snaplytics analyzed over 800 influencers in depth over the last quarter, to identify how many updates contained brand mentions, which brands were being mentioned and who mentioned them on what platform. It turns out while Snapchat has had a downward going slope in terms of influencer activity Instagram Stories is gaining more and more traction, especially among larger brands.

SendGrid Improves Email Marketing Editor Experience

While I may be an old dog with decades of experience utilizing websites for marketing purposes, I'm more like a newborn puppy when it comes to email marketing. Until a couple years ago, I never utilized email campaigns or email newsletters in hopes to get more visits to my websites. My current email marketing service provider is MailChimp, but there is another customer communication platform that is on my radar, Colorado-based SendGrid.

Distributors playing increasingly important role in the supply of ICT products

Europe’s leading distributors increased their share of the supply chain, growing their revenues by an average of 5.4% while overall the Information Communication Technology (ICT) industry grew by just 0.3% according to the latest research from IT Europa and Gartner respectively. The ICT industry has been changing fast with Managed Services and Cloud-based applications driving much of the growth and the Distribution sector would seem to be evolving to address this shift.

Five Ways to Encourage Intranet Collaboration

Intranets can be an excellent platform that enable you to build a solid company culture of information exchange and collaboration.  With intranet software in the workplace, it's now become easier to share and access information anywhere, anytime, on any device, as well as playing a vital role in helping to improve the communication between the employees within your organization.  Collaborating through an intranet platform gives employees from different departments a unique opportunity to come together on a common platform, working and sharing ideas about big projects all within one secure digital workplace.

Episerver Named a Leader in Gartner’s 2017 Magic Quadrant for WCM

Episerver, a global provider of a single platform to smartly manage digital content, commerce and marketing in the cloud, today announced its position in the “Leaders” quadrant of Gartner’s 2017 “Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management”.

Gartner evaluated Episerver alongside 18 other vendors in the report, recognizing the company as a leader based on its completeness of vision and ability to execute. After key investments last year in real-time personalization and omni-channel campaign management, Episerver is continuing to build out its unified web content management and digital commerce solutions including an enhanced initiative with Microsoft for Dynamics 365.