The $6.5 billion Okta-Auth0 deal will help make Okta the identity standard across organizations by supporting more use cases that developers need, but investors are concerned about the steep purchase price and lower profitability outlook.
Guthrie, who heads Microsoft’s cloud and AI group, and Althoff, who heads the worldwide commercial business, used keynotes at Ignite to discuss the future of Azure, Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform.
‘Based on our expert’s analysis to date, we understand that the attacker deployed a persistent Cobalt Strike backdoor to several systems in the environment and acquired administrative credentials. These administrative credentials were then used to deploy the Darkside Ransomware,’ CompuCom tells customers.
The company used its Ignite conference to debut new offerings in edge computing and mixed reality, while announcing major updates for Azure, Teams and Dynamics 365.
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.
T-Mobile is ‘going big’ with 5G for enterprises, the carrier’s CEO, Mike Sievert, says of the new T-Mobile WFX portfolio. But partners still see a need for ‘cottage industry’ consultants offering telecom expense management solutions.
The pilot projects include IBM blockchain and AI technologies with a goal ‘to improve confidence in vaccine programs and increase rates of vaccination.’
‘There needs to be more capacity in the semiconductor market. Demand is only going to continue to grow as all these different sectors are putting more pressure on semiconductor capacity that exists today. So they need to have that long term, not just for PCs, but for the auto industry and other markets,’ an IT distribution exec says.
Company sees continued demand for its big data platform for digital security tasks, says SolarWinds attack highlights the need for “timely detection capabilities.”
‘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.
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.
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.