We asked MSPs on this year’s MSP 500 list to describe what they expect will be the biggest challenges they face in 2021. Here’s what some of them had to say.
A recent malware attack is affecting some of the services CompuCom provides to customers, and the Office Depot subsidiary said Wednesday it’s in the process of restoring customer services and internal operations
‘They [Auth0] built the company from the ground up to be focused on developers, and that manifests itself in a lot of different ways. But the biggest way is almost a cultural way,’ says Okta CEO Todd McKinnon.
‘This seems to be a much larger spread than just ‘limited and targeted attacks’ as Microsoft has suggested ... These [victim] companies do not perfectly align with Microsoft’s guidance,’ says Huntress’ John Hammond.
‘It’s a big significant bet by Wipro that they can pivot out of the lower value outsourcing application development space which is largely becoming commoditized and into higher-margin financial technology services consulting,’ says Martin Wolf, president of martinwolf M&A Advisors of Walnut Creek, Calif., one of the top technology services investment advisory deal-makers.
But investor expectations apparently remain very high for the data cloud company, which went public in September, because Snowflake’s stock price dropped nearly 9 percent by the close of trading Wednesday.
The Okta-Auth0 identity megadeal is one of the biggest cybersecurity acquisitions of all-time, behind only Broadcom’s $10.7 billion buy of Symantec in 2019 and Intel’s $7.6 billion purchase of McAfee in 2010.
HPE Worldwide Channel Chief George Hope says among the keys to the company’s channel sales growth in the first fiscal quarter was a 116 percent increase in GreenLake cloud service indirect orders.
Big Blue selected Elly Keinan as the group president of NewCo., and Maria Bartolome Winans as its chief marketing officer. NewCo is expected to have a new name soon, IBM said.
The semiconductor giant’s 2020 Product Security Report outlines how many vulnerabilities were uncovered by Intel versus external research, which product areas had the most vulnerabilities and how severe the issues were last year, among other things.
Pluribus Networks’ newly revamped partner program will provide more resources, opportunities and a ‘competitive differentiation’ to solution providers, one Pluribus partner tells CRN.
‘From an edge experience perspective, it is a first—a comprehensive 2RU platform for the edge, which allows for centralized deployment, management and backup consolidated towards the public cloud,’ says HPE Vice President Omer Asad. ‘When you combine it with GreenLake, it is essentially branch or edge as a service.’
“Undoubtedly, Justin is the right person for the job—and at an ideal time in the evolution of our HPC, MCS and Labs business,” said HPE CEO Antonio Neri. “His customer- and market centric-mindset, technical background and collaborative leadership will ensure great continuity as we deliver on our Exascale commitments, execute on our strategy and roadmap and continue to extend our leadership in the market.”
The updates include new integrations with Teams and LinkedIn along with a number of enhanced features.
