‘What we are watching the bad guys do is they get free trials of an RMM, then they phish you, they log into your VPN with stolen creds [credentials], they put the RMM down and they use that to put the ransomware down,’ says Blackpoint Cyber founder and CEO Jon Murchison.
‘Red Hat partners like Arm, Nvidia, Intel and more are creating technologies that are more than just smart servers at the edge. These solutions, with the right strategy and software, they can function as clouds that extend way beyond the confines of the traditional data center,’ Red Hat CEO Paul Cormier says in his Red Hat Summit keynote.
“We hate to see any software products used for malicious purposes, but unfortunately, remote control tools are used for this purpose all too frequently,” said ConnectWise Chief Product Officer Jeff Bishop in an email statement to CRN.
“With this product, I can start a conversation with a customer about hyperconverged infrastructure, that doesn’t end at ‘$100,000,’” says Scale partner Mark Essayian, president of KME Systems, an MSP in Lake Forest, Calif.
New Teams and Pro editions of ThoughtSpot’s cloud data analytics software, combined with new pricing models, are expected to expand the company’s potential market reach.
“We’re hearing from [partners]: ’Gee, Cisco is really complicated. The transformation is complicated. I wish I had a map.‘ That’s where this whole thing starts,” Julia Chen, Cisco’s VP of partner transformation, tells CRN.
'We’ve spent years building our zero-trust approach internally at Microsoft. We’ve proven its effectiveness against real-world attacks. We are committed to sharing what we have learned to help every organization accelerate their progress,’ says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at the virtual Microsoft Security Summit.
‘Rackspace Technology recently completed an in-depth strategic review of our company. As we completed this strategic review, and also based on inbound interest for one of our businesses, we concluded that a sum of the parts valuation of Rackspace Technology could be greater than our current enterprise value,’ says Rackspace CEO Kevin Jones on the company’s earnings call.
Technology job openings surpassed 400,000 for the second consecutive month in a row, according to a report from trade group CompTIA. These are the IT jobs in demand as of April 2022.
U.S. channel manager Jason Kimrey joins in on a discussion with CRN on a variety of topics from emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and edge computing to the benefits of the Intel Partner Alliance and the chipmaker’s aggressive plans to expand manufacturing capacity.