While the COVID-19 pandemic caused a lot of volatility in employment, software engineering jobs have fared well, with demand for their skills--and salaries needed to attract those skills--rising as technology companies shifted to work from home mode.
The U.K. competition watchdog’s phase one report is due at the end of July, and it is expected to shed light on whether there are any competition, national security or jurisdiction issues. From there, the U.K. digital secretary can decide to clear the acquisition, clear it with certain conditions or call for a phase two investigation.
‘With the growth and momentum in the market and the growth in our platform, this is the right time to double down and invest into better innovation, better channel partners, better marketing options, international expansion, all those areas we had already been doing, but on a larger scale,’ says Druva CEO and Founder Jaspreet Singh.
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.
As IBM pursues greater partner engagement around the hybrid cloud opportunity, the company reported a 21-percent increase in total cloud revenue during the first quarter of the year.
‘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.
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.
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.
‘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.
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.
While this year is likely to see an increase in office printing, opportunities around serving work-from-home print needs are expected to continue.
