30 Notable IT Executive Moves: February 2021
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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by Michael Novinson
Notorious ransomware operator REvil boasts on its dark web leak site of having medical documents, social security numbers, personal data, and passports and licenses from MSP Standley Systems and its clients.
by Mark Haranas
The Dell Technologies veteran currently leads VMware’s Kubernetes charge as vice president of Tanzu.
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.
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Apple iPhone 12 Pro Vs. Samsung Galaxy S21 Plus: Face Off
by Kyle Alspach
CRN compares Samsung’s recently launched Galaxy S21 Plus with its closest counterpart in Apple’s iPhone lineup, the iPhone 12 Pro.
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Hackers Steal Email From 30K US Orgs Via Microsoft Flaw: Report
by Michael Novinson
‘It’s police departments, hospitals, tons of city and state governments and credit unions. Just about everyone who’s running self-hosted Outlook Web Access and wasn’t patched as of a few days ago got hit with a zero-day attack,’ a source tells KrebsOnSecurity.
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5 Companies That Came To Win This Week
by Rick Whiting
For the week ending March 5, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel.
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Microsoft Could Lose JEDI Contract If AWS Case Isn’t Dismissed: Report
by Kyle Alspach
A federal judge is weighing Amazon Web Services’ allegations of bias in the awarding of the contract to its cloud rival Microsoft.
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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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CompuCom Hit By DarkSide Ransomware, Tells Customers: Report
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.
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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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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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10 Things To Know About The Okta-Auth0 Deal And Stock Drop
by Michael Novinson
The $6.5 billion Okta-Auth0 deal will help make Okta the identity standard across organizations by supporting more use cases that developers need, but investors are concerned about the steep purchase price and lower profitability outlook.
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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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