‘This has been extreme pain. People are annoyed and upset, but understand it could have been a lot worse if they had been breached,’ Silicon East President Marc Harrison tells CRN.
Five cybersecurity vendors disclosed in recent weeks that hackers have attacked their internal systems, compromised their certificates or attempted to access their email accounts. Here’s a rundown of what happened when.
‘The pandemic has made inequities in our technology infrastructure increasingly apparent, leaving those in rural and low-income areas struggling to work and learn effectively from home, putting disadvantaged people at an even greater disadvantage,’ says Dell Technologies Chairman and CEO Michael Dell.
‘Simon [Ewington] brings deep channel experience and a partner-first approach to this new role,’ says HPE Worldwide Channel Chief George Hope. ‘He is a results-oriented leader with a proven expertise in change management across volume and value categories. He’s consistently demonstrated his ability to drive high-performing teams—both direct and virtual —across international borders and successfully nurture key customer relationships.’
“For those partners that actually help to drive the software consumption they are going to get the energy, the recruitment, the resources and the trainings that they need in market,” said new IBM Senior Vice President of Worldwide Ecosystems and Blockchain Bob Lord. “So it is going to be less of a peanut butter spread and much more of a targeted spread in the market.”
‘Joining forces, we will deliver the enterprise-grade features, including world-class security and scale, that have been missing from the edge until now,’ says F5 CEO François Locoh-Donou on the done deal.
The developer of a platform for processing and analyzing huge volumes of data will use the funding to hire across its engineering, customer support, and sales and marketing operations this year.
The big data analytics superstar has a market valuation approaching $30 billion, a number that could grow by the company goes public – likely sometime this year.
To survive a post-COVID-19 world that involves higher adoption of remote work, businesses are accelerating their digital transformation initiatives in 2021 with worldwide IT spending to reach $3.92 trillion, says Gartner.
‘We want this to be a win-win. We’re not just looking for partners. We want to qualify their interest in a joint approach to the market,’ says Mehran Hadipour, vice president of alliances at Robin.io.
New IBM Senior Vice President of Worldwide Ecosystems and Blockchain Bob Lord says the company is upping its partner game as it sharpens its focus on Red Hat OpenShift as the standard for hybrid cloud and AI.
A day after disclosing a sophisticated cyberattack against its internal systems, SonicWall updated its guidance to tell customers its NetExtender VPN client doesn’t have a zero-day vulnerability after all.
Sophisticated hackers compromised SonicWall’s NetExtender VPN client and SMB-oriented Secure Mobile Access 100 series product, which are used to provide employees and users with remote access to internal resources.
‘Throughout the past year, I’ve been continually inspired by the extraordinary resilience and strength Microsoft partners have shown, going the extra mile to support and innovate on behalf of our mutual customers,’ Bryson says.
Gelsinger promises leadership products and a return to process leadership in his first remarks as Intel’s incoming CEO. ‘We’re committed to leading innovation and delivering the best products for our customers in every category that we participate in,’ he says.
John Curtis, who has been with Samsung Electronics America for about five years, is taking the channel chief role vacated by the departure of Mike Coleman.