VMware’s Spin-Off From Dell Is Nearing: 8 Huge Things To Know
One Communications Platform Best In A Hybrid Working World, Says Intermedia
by Gina Narcisi
“Point products can’t flex far enough — the need is to eliminate complexity, focus on the business and arm every employee with all the tools to work better from wherever,” Cameron Boswell, Intermedia’s senior director of partner enablement, says during the NexGen 2021 conference.
Sponsored Post
by Michael Novinson
From leveraging anonymous infrastructure and taking advantage of delegated administrative privileges to gaining access to virtual machines, here’s how the group behind the SolarWinds attack is going after resellers.
by Michael Novinson
From extended detection and response, identity management and vulnerability management to security assessments, security awareness training and incident response, here are the top cybersecurity investments MSPs have in store.
by Dylan Martin
The semiconductor giant says it’s discontinuing more than 30 Ethernet controller and adapter products for servers, citing a desire to ‘maintain supply’ for Ethernet products that sell in higher volumes. The end-of-life notices were issued after Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger warned in a recent earnings call that an Ethernet controller shortage was constraining growth for the company’s Data Center Group.
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘I do not have a crystal ball. … All I can do is help us take a little journey together three years, five years, 10 years into the future, maybe 20, and say, with these technologies coming along, what does the future look like for us? What does it look like for our businesses,’ says futurist and entrepreneur Kevin Surace at the NexGen 2021+ conference.
More Stories
-
HP Pledges $80 Million For ‘Holistic’ Forest Conservation And Restoration
by Kyle Alspach
The pledge of funding to the World Wildlife Fund accounts for the footprint from paper used in HP printers from non-HP brands, HP said. Previous commitments have ensured that all HP-branded paper is from a sustainable source or recycled.
-
Devo Whips Up $250M On $1.5B Valuation To Boost Analytics Tool
by Michael Novinson
‘We feel like we have a formula that’s really working to disrupt the market. This validates the immense size of the market and how we are disrupting it,’ Devo CEO Marc van Zadelhoff tells CRN.
-
MSPs Doubling Down On Cyber Offerings And Internal Security, But Talent Is A Constraint: Panel
by Kyle Alspach
Managed services providers at The Channel Company’s NexGen+ 2021 conference shared their approaches to the cybersecurity challenge and opportunity, while also discussing major growth opportunities such as cloud.
-
Data Backup The ‘Last Line Of Defense’ Against Ransomware
by Gina Narcisi
Data management and recovery specialist Veeam is working with its partners to provide customers with a multi-layer approach -- including data backup -- to defend customers against ransomware, executives said during the NexGen 2021 conference.
-
SolarWinds Hackers’ New Attack Is ‘Another Wake-Up Call’ For Microsoft Partners
by Steven Burke
“I wouldn’t want to be an MSP who is just starting to think about cybersecurity now as they might not exist in another year,” says US itek President David Stinner. “This is yet another wake-up call for MSPs that you need to get out of the chair in your office and convince your customers to buy the protection they need.”
-
10 Cool Tech Companies That Raised Funding In September 2021
by Rick Whiting
Next-generation technology developers in big data management, security, DataSecOps and application management were among the startup companies that reported new rounds of funding in September.
-
Cisco To Buy Kubernetes Startup Replex To ‘Grow’ AppDynamics
by Mark Haranas
Cisco is investing millions to boost and innovate its application performance monitoring software business AppDynamics, including today’s announcement to buy Kubernetes startup Replex.
-
SolarWinds Hackers Compromise 14 Resellers In New Effort: Microsoft
by Michael Novinson
‘Russia is trying to gain long-term, systematic access to a variety of points in the technology supply chain and establish a mechanism for surveilling … targets of interest to the Russian government,’ writes Microsoft’s Tom Burt in a blog post.
-
Trustwave Sells PCI Compliance Business To Sysnet For $80M
by Michael Novinson
‘It didn’t necessarily make sense for us to stay in the PCI business. This will allow us to invest more and focus more on the MDR and MSS assets going forward,’ Trustwave CEO Eric Harmon tells CRN.
-
Hackers Exploit Flaw In BQE Software’s Billing System To Deploy Ransomware: Huntress
by Mark Haranas
‘Well-established vendors are doing very little to proactively secure their applications and [are subjecting] their unwitting customers to significant liability when sensitive data is inevitably leaked and/or ransomed,’ says Huntress security researcher Caleb Stewart.
-
InterVision’s New CEO On M&A, Competition And Security
by C.J. Fairfield
‘I think the timing was right,’ InterVision CEO Jonathan Lerner says of his new position. ‘How will this be the next level of growth? How do we pour jet fuel on that opportunity of the $300 billion and change Infrastructure-as-a-Service addressable market and have double-digit growth for the next three to five years?’
-
Alibaba Puts Heat On AWS, Huawei With New Chips, Servers, Data Centers
by Mark Haranas
The cloud computing giant is stepping up its rivalry against cloud competitors with the launch of new in-house processors, servers and new data centers outside China.
Video
