The Top 25 IT Innovators Of 2021
The 25 Most Influential Executives Of 2021
by CRN Staff
These 25 CEOs offered solution providers much-needed partnership at a time when the channel needed it most.
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by Gina Narcisi
Nextiva’s chief revenue officer and longtime channel veteran, Eric Martorano, has left the company, sources tell CRN.
by Steven Burke
The progress Arvind Krishna has made in transforming IBM into a hybrid cloud-AI powerhouse with a renewed focus on partners, innovation and growth has made him the No. 1 Most Influential Executive on CRN’s 2021 Top 100 Executives list.
by Mark Haranas
Just one year into his role as president and CEO of CyrusOne, Bruce Duncan suddenly departs from the global data center provider.
by Steven Burke
‘Jas was a huge asset to the channel community, her sales teams and HPE in general,’ says Paul Cohen, vice president of sales for New York-based PKA Technologies, one of HPE’s top Platinum partners. ‘She has been a highly respected HPE executive for 26 years...Whenever we had a specific issue Jas would jump in at a moment’s notice.’
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PE-Backed NetGain Acquires TruTechnology In Southeastern US Bet
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘The acquisition of TruTechnology was mainly for geographical expansion. Our whole goal with acquisitions is to acquire great companies that are running really well already. We just want to offer them the ability to grow. Their employees stay in place and take care of existing customers like they always have,’ says Megan Reed, NetGain’s vice president of marketing.
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Microsoft Web Servers Targeted By Hacker ‘Praying Mantis’: Cybersecurity Firm
by Wade Tyler Millward
Cybersecurity firm Sygnia said that the threat actor’s campaign focused on Windows IIS servers, and has involved a ‘custom malware framework tailor-made for IIS servers.’
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CDW Acquires Focal Point Data Risk To Boost Security Services
by C.J. Fairfield
‘Helping our customers leverage technology to protect their most critical data is core to our mission,’ Christine Leahy, president and CEO of CDW, said in a statement.
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Pensando Systems Receives Nearly $35M In New Funding: Exclusive
by Gina Narcisi
The edge computing startup tells CRN it has pulled in nearly $35 million in new funding from Ericsson Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, and Liberty Global Ventures to fuel 5G development.
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The Top 100 Executives Of 2021
by Kyle Alspach
Here we present the CRN Top 100 Executives of 2021 list, the men and women who are setting the pace for the rest of the IT industry.
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by Ed Hannan
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AWS Maintains Lead As Q2 Enterprise Cloud Spending Tops $40B: Synergy Research
by Wade Tyler Millward
‘Some of the other cloud providers are growing at very healthy rates, but Amazon is proving to be an extremely tough competitor,’ Synergy Research Group Chief Analyst John Dinsdale writes in a new report.
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Atos Looks To Sell Data Center, Communications To Focus On Cloud, Security: Report
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘The problem is that with the very strong move to cloud and the accelerating move to cloud that we described several times, this infrastructure is being underutilized much faster than the ability to consolidate those data centers. So there is here as well a very strong case for joining forces with partners to fill, if you like, those data centers and this infrastructure. So there is a very clear case and business rationale behind all that,’ says Elie Girard, Atos CEO and director.
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Kaseya ‘Likely’ Got Ransomware Decryptor From REvil: Huntress CEO Kyle Hanslovan
by C.J. Fairfield
‘Since Emsisoft is the one that got it, I think it’s probably more likely that that REvil team or a REvil affiliate leaked it,’ says Huntress CEO Kyle Hanslovan.
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Huntress CEO Kyle Hanslovan: Kaseya Should Make Billing Concessions To MSPs
by C.J. Fairfield
‘Whether that forgiveness comes today, tomorrow... I have high hopes that [Kaseya] will do something to compensate those partners,’ says Huntress CEO Kyle Hanslovan.
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Proofpoint Alleges Ex-Exec Took Trade Secrets To Abnormal Security
by Michael Novinson
Proofpoint claims ex-Director of National Partner Sales Samuel Boone shared with Abnormal’s sales leaders and engineers a ‘battlecard’ that outlines Proofpoint’s strategies for competing against Abnormal’s sales tactics.
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Nutanix Channel Chief: ‘Game-Changing’ Red Hat Container Deal ‘Has Meat On The Bones’
by Wade Tyler Millward
‘This partnership, I often refer to it internally as a game-changing partnership in today’s hybrid multi-cloud world,’ Nutanix channel chief Christian Alvarez tells CRN in an interview. ‘This partnership has meat on the bones. What does it mean to our partners — I would have to say that, first and foremost, customers want choice, customers are demanding choice. And not just from manufacturers like Nutanix but from the partners that they’re buying from.’
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