From dramatically reducing alerts and improving the productivity of security teams to facilitating automated incident response, here’s a look at 10 XDR security companies looking to dominate this emerging market.
IBM Senior Vice President Cloud and Data Platform Rob Thomas, who oversees the IBM software business, says the company is seeing a ‘big uptick’ in partner engagement as it accelerates its Red Hat OpenShift software blitz.
SolarWinds said Friday that it didn’t make any adjustments to its 2020 performance-based executive compensation after the hack despite already spending at least $21.5 million on cleanup and recovery.
‘There’s no better way for partners to make money right now than to help organizations retool their real estate, their employees and their applications for the hybrid workplace,’ says Jeff Teper, corporate vice president of Microsoft 365 collaboration.
A monthly tech job posting report from CompTIA identifies the states with the most tech job postings in March and how those numbers compare with February. Here’s a look.
‘With the new normal in the workforce, no business can afford to not be concerned about digital compliance. It’s a $6-billion business now, and will grow to $10 billion in the next few years. This is very much front and center with what we are trying to do,’ says Ajay Bhatia, general manager Veritas’ digital compliance business.
New release of the Alluxio Data Orchestration Platform offers expanded API functionality to speed data integration and support AWS, Azure and GCP cloud systems.
Kelly Nuckolls of InfoSystems writes that shifting our own mindsets internally is just one way to ‘harmonize solutions in a way that benefits customers and vendors alike.’
Major executive moves continued to happen in 2021, with new leaders being named at Amazon Web Services and Forescout. Big personnel changes also happened at Microsoft, Dell Technologies, Intel, AMD, IBM and Google Cloud.
“The channel market is going to continue to consolidate. Scale is going to continue to become more and more important, and it will be harder and harder for local and regional providers without scale to thrive and [for] some of them it may be hard to survive,” said Presidio CEO Bob Cagnazzi.
‘[Linke] brings a strong portfolio of solutions for SAP pre-installed systems on the AWS Marketplace including SAP S/4HANA. If that’s not a unique offering, it’s very uncommon. Linke also brings AWS Connect to provide customers with direct access to AWS services directly from SAP,’ says Syntax global CEO Christian Primeau.
‘If you’re selling and reselling from an upstream provider, understand the limits of what that upstream partner is providing,’ an attorney whose clients include VARs and MSPs told CRN.
The six companies are accused by the U.S. Treasury Department of providing expertise, developing tools and infrastructure, and facilitating malicious cyberattacks on behalf of Russian Intelligence Services.
‘Ninety-five percent of our development team is software-based. But, at the end of the day, what I believe our customers want are outcomes which will be delivered as services. So I think it goes beyond the software or hardware and to delivering services that provide the outcomes our customers want,’ says Pure Storage CEO Charles Giancarlo in an exclusive CRN interview.
IBM Senior Vice President Cloud and Data Platform Rob Thomas, who oversees the IBM software business, says the company is seeing a ‘big uptick’ in partner engagement as it accelerates its Red Hat OpenShift software blitz.
