‘There are always going to be opportunities to look at skill sets to enhance the capabilities we have. When we talk with our partners about what’s important to them, is it vertical markets? Is it specific skill sets and certifications they need? We’re going to look at those opportunities to acquire,’ Paul Bay, president of global technology solutions at Ingram Micro, tells CRN.
As demand surges for enterprise AI software, we’ve rounded some of the top platforms from vendors including AWS, DataRobot, Google Cloud, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IBM and Microsoft.
‘The fact that we had to take down VSA is very disappointing to me personally. I feel like I let this community down, I let my company down, [and] our company let you down,’ says CEO Fred Voccola.
‘Last weekend, we found ourselves in the middle of a storm. A storm created by the ransomware attacks executed via Kaseya VSA using a vulnerability which we confidentially disclosed to Kaseya,’ says Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure’s Frank Breedijk.
“OpenShift is the new OS of the cloud,” said Vizuri Senior Vice President Joe Dickman. “Paul’s commitment to Linux and the benefits of Linux in the cloud are driving industry demand for a new computing paradigm. His vision for the next generation of computing is on target.”
‘We will provide this industry-leading capability and strategically important visibility and detection by combining Capsule8 with our Adaptive Cybersecurity Ecosystem products and services, greatly enhancing the ability to find and eliminate suspicious activity before it becomes malicious,’ says Dan Schiappa, chief product officer for Sophos.
The tech giant will be giving its live event and conference hosting capabilities a boost within the popular Webex platform with its Socio Labs deal now closed.
‘We only have only 7 million cloud users. … Going from 7 million to what we want to get to, which is 50 million cloud users, will allow us to get to over $1 billion recurring revenue annually. So that’s what we’re very, very excited about, and that’s what becoming a public company allows us to do, to move faster,’ AvePoint CEO Tianyi ’TJ’ Jiang tells CRN.
‘Cybersecurity is table stakes for any company today, but MSPs, who provide IT and security services to many companies at once, serve as a critical leverage point for managing or amplifying risk,’ writes Ryan Heidorn, co-founder and managing director at IT services provider Steel Root.
The vulnerability -- officially dubbed CVE-2021-34527 -- is found in how Print Spooler improperly performs privileged file operations, according to a Microsoft post.
From the role Microsoft’s cloud environment played in the hack to the risk posed to VARs to the likelihood of a connection with the Kaseya attack, here are five things to know about the Synnex hack.
‘The days of any software or hardware vendors thinking about security, secondarily, are over. You just can‘t survive that way. The adversaries will find the weakest link. It’s just far too easy for them today, so I do think we have to up our game,’ says Dan Schiappa, chief product officer of Sophos.
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After scrapping its JEDI contract, the U.S. Department of Defense now plans to make awards to multiple cloud computing providers under its new Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability contract.
Ben Johnson, CEO of Liberty Technology, a Griffin, Ga. solution provider, said the IT industry is under “increasing pressure” to steer the supply chain away from China in the wake of human rights issues and questions about the origin of the Coronavirus. “I do not think the timing of this was coincidental” given the political situation with China, he said.
‘During the VSA SaaS deployment, an issue was discovered that has blocked the release. Unfortunately, the VSA SaaS rollout will not be completed in the previously communicated timeline,’ Kaseya said at 10 p.m. ET Tuesday.