10 Things To Know About The Okta-Auth0 Deal And Stock Drop
Microsoft Ignite 2021: 4 Top Takeaways From Scott Guthrie And Judson Althoff
by Wade Tyler Millward
Guthrie, who heads Microsoft’s cloud and AI group, and Althoff, who heads the worldwide commercial business, used keynotes at Ignite to discuss the future of Azure, Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform.
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by Michael Novinson
‘Based on our expert’s analysis to date, we understand that the attacker deployed a persistent Cobalt Strike backdoor to several systems in the environment and acquired administrative credentials. These administrative credentials were then used to deploy the Darkside Ransomware,’ CompuCom tells customers.
by Kyle Alspach
The company used its Ignite conference to debut new offerings in edge computing and mixed reality, while announcing major updates for Azure, Teams and Dynamics 365.
by Rick Whiting
We asked MSPs on this year’s MSP 500 list to describe what they expect will be the biggest challenges they face in 2021. Here’s what some of them had to say.
by Mark Haranas
Here are the most significant VMware executive departures as well as the company’s top new hires.
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Microsoft’s Top 5 Power Platform Announcements At Ignite 2021
by Wade Tyler Millward
The updates include the introduction of a free Power Automate offering and the expansion of Power Fx.
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T-Mobile For Business’ Portfolio Includes Unlimited 5G Data Plans For Enterprises
by Gina Narcisi
T-Mobile is ‘going big’ with 5G for enterprises, the carrier’s CEO, Mike Sievert, says of the new T-Mobile WFX portfolio. But partners still see a need for ‘cottage industry’ consultants offering telecom expense management solutions.
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IBM And Moderna Join Forces To Improve COVID-19 Vaccine Tracking
by Wade Tyler Millward
The pilot projects include IBM blockchain and AI technologies with a goal ‘to improve confidence in vaccine programs and increase rates of vaccination.’
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U.S. Senate Bill In Works To Boost Chipmaking With $30B: Report
by Dylan Martin
‘There needs to be more capacity in the semiconductor market. Demand is only going to continue to grow as all these different sectors are putting more pressure on semiconductor capacity that exists today. So they need to have that long term, not just for PCs, but for the auto industry and other markets,’ an IT distribution exec says.
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Splunk: Deal-Closing Rate Rebounded In Fourth Quarter
by Rick Whiting
Company sees continued demand for its big data platform for digital security tasks, says SolarWinds attack highlights the need for “timely detection capabilities.”
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Wipro Makes Big ‘Higher-Margin’ Consulting Bet With Capco Acquisition
by Steven Burke
‘It’s a big significant bet by Wipro that they can pivot out of the lower value outsourcing application development space which is largely becoming commoditized and into higher-margin financial technology services consulting,’ says Martin Wolf, president of martinwolf M&A Advisors of Walnut Creek, Calif., one of the top technology services investment advisory deal-makers.
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Kaseya CEO Fred Voccola On His Rivals, Private Equity And A Possible IPO
by O’Ryan Johnson
The outspoken leader of the ITSM tool provider chimed in on where he sees growth coming from in 2021.
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CompuCom Hit With Malware As MSPs Remain Under Siege
by Michael Novinson
A recent malware attack is affecting some of the services CompuCom provides to customers, and the Office Depot subsidiary said Wednesday it’s in the process of restoring customer services and internal operations
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Okta CEO: ‘We’re Really, Really Lucky’ To Join With ‘Amazing Company’ Auth0
by Michael Novinson
‘They [Auth0] built the company from the ground up to be focused on developers, and that manifests itself in a lot of different ways. But the biggest way is almost a cultural way,’ says Okta CEO Todd McKinnon.
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Snowflake Wraps Up Fiscal Year With Triple-Digit Q4 Growth
by Rick Whiting
But investor expectations apparently remain very high for the data cloud company, which went public in September, because Snowflake’s stock price dropped nearly 9 percent by the close of trading Wednesday.
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Ignite 2021: Microsoft’s 6 Biggest Dynamics 365 Updates
by Wade Tyler Millward
The updates include new integrations with Teams and LinkedIn along with a number of enhanced features.
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Okta To Acquire Red-Hot Identity Vendor Auth0 For $6.5B
by Michael Novinson
The Okta-Auth0 identity megadeal is one of the biggest cybersecurity acquisitions of all-time, behind only Broadcom’s $10.7 billion buy of Symantec in 2019 and Intel’s $7.6 billion purchase of McAfee in 2010.
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