CRN looked through hundreds of exhibitors to find some of the most innovative smart home technologies on display at the virtual CES 2021, and they included smart pillows, smart baby cribs, smart air-quality clocks and home energy assistants.
Rather than rejecting Staples’ offer to acquire Office Depot for $2.1 billion, Office Depot’s Jan. 19 response seems to open the door for the company to divest its CompuCom business, sell its retail and e-commerce business to Staples, and possibly become a stand-alone B2B business.
‘Attackers leveraged a dormant email production product within our Office 365 tenant that allowed access to a limited subset of internal company emails,’ Malwarebytes CEO Marcin Kleczynski wrote in a blog post.
The IT industry ended 2020 with major CEO shakeups at Nutanix, SolarWinds and 8x8 as well as significant personnel changes at companies like Capgemini, Accenture, Xerox, IBM, Arrow Electronics and Cisco Systems.
Data center leasing capacity in the U.S. tripled in 2020 with Microsoft, Facebook and Bytedance (TikTok) leasing the most from multi-tenant data center operators.
Sales of the first foldable PC, the ThinkPad X1 Fold, have ‘far exceeded’ the company’s initial targets, said Zielinski, president of Lenovo North America’s Intelligent Devices Group.
‘Ken is an experienced technologist and corporate director with deep roots in software, mobile and AI technologies,’ says VMware board member Paul Sagan.
‘I’m thrilled to join Google Cloud during this transformational period for the broader CPG industry,’ Giusy Buonfantino said in a statement. ‘Now more than ever, it is crucial for organizations to innovate and modernize their businesses to remain resilient.’
The company also appointed a new chief strategy officer from Bain & Company, and announced the departure of Kim Rivera, HP’s president of strategy and business management.
Office Depot, in an open letter, says it acknowledges Staples’ primary interest in acquiring its retail and ecommerce business, and said that it has already initiated the process to sell its CompuCom business as part of a strategic review of the business.
Here’s a roundup of 10 big data technology companies to keep an eye on in 2021—some well-known (looking at you Snowflake), some likely to break out this year, and some just starting to appear on industry watchers’ radar screens.