The Power 100 is culled from the ranks of CRN’s Women of the Channel and spotlights the female executives at vendors and distributors whose insight and influence help drive channel success.
The carrier giant and cloud UC provider are developing a co-branded UCaaS offering for enterprises, which will be a part of Verizon’s network as a service strategy, according to the two companies.
The FBI confirmed Monday afternoon that the Darkside ransomware group is responsible for compromising Colonial Pipeline. Darkside was also reportedly behind the huge ransomware attack against CompuCom.
Hackers persistently accessed SolarWinds’ internal systems, Microsoft Office 365 environment and software development environment for months before carrying out their vicious cyberattack, the company said.
‘I can’t comment on the court case — and I’m not going to comment on specifically what DOD is going to do — but I will say…it is absolutely vital that we are able to move forward on a data-centric approach in the department,’ said Kathleen Hicks, deputy secretary of defense under the Biden administration.
‘This is an opportunity to help our customers transform their entire IT environment from mainframe to cloud and everything in between,’ says Ensono Senior Vice President David Twohy. ‘Ensono is very uniquely positioned to deliver all those services end to end. I am super excited and energized by this new role.’
Lightspeed’s software is used by DevOps teams to analyze system-wide metrics, tracing data and logs in real time to understand the cause and effects of changes to application performance and reliability, accelerating cloud application development.
‘Other companies are providing education to MSPs, but nobody does it better than Sea-Level CEO and Founder Rex Frank with his 30-plus years of experience in the channel. When we dug into his coaching framework, his modules, we found that each module is important to the development of MSPs,’ says Nick Heddy, Pax8’s chief revenue officer.
Colonial Pipeline - the largest pipeline operator in the United States - took some of its systems offline following a cyberattack Friday, which has resulted in the temporary stoppage of all pipeline operations.
‘We don’t wake up every morning thinking about competition — this marketplace is still more blue ocean than red ocean,’ 2nd Watch CEO Schneider tells CRN in an interview
‘For IT, overall, the pandemic has been a good thing in the fact that more and more of our companies realize that at the heart of it they’ve got to become more digital as a company in order for them to succeed. And I think we’ll see some of the remnants of this continue. I think we’ll all agree that the workforce won’t be the same going forward,’ says Insight Enterprises President and CEO Ken Lamneck.
‘With the added strength of [private equity firm] BPEA’s ownership, the impressive performance of the business, and the strength of the leadership team we have in place, I’ve decided that it’s the right time for me to explore my next chapter,’ says Canekeratne.
The last time AMD saw such a large jump in server CPU shipments was when its server market share peaked in 2006 with Opteron, according to Mercury Research. However, Intel continued to reverse AMD’s share growth in the overall x86 market for a second consecutive quarter, largely thanks to entry-level CPUs.
Here is a look at the 10 tech company stocks that recorded the biggest gains in the first quarter of 2021 – and the 10 that saw the biggest declines.
