About
CJ Fairfield is an associate editor at CRN covering solution providers, MSPs and distributors. She holds a Master’s degree in International Journalism from Brunel University London. Prior to joining CRN, she worked at daily newspapers, including The Press of Atlantic City in New Jersey and The Frederick News-Post in Maryland. She lives in New Jersey with her shitzu-bichon mix, Kenley.
Latest Stories
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Kaseya CEO On Finalized Datto Deal: Our Job Is To Make Sure We ‘Build The Best Freaking Platform For Our Customers’
by C.J. Fairfield
Kaseya CEO Fred Voccola talks to CRN about the changes ahead, including the news that Datto’s CEO Tim Weller will be ‘moving on’ and Rob Rae and Ryan Weeks will be staying. ‘Rob‘s awesome. … I tried to hire Rob for the last six years, so we got Rob finally. It took us buying Datto to get Rob Rae to be an employee,’ Voccola says.
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It’s Official: Kaseya Completes Datto Acquisition
by C.J. Fairfield
‘It’s going to be Datto, A Kaseya Company, just like every other deal we’ve done. We’re keeping the brand, keeping the culture,’ Kaseya CEO Fred Voccola tells CRN.
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Kaseya Closes The Datto Acquisition: 6 Things To Know
by Joseph F. Kovar
Here are six key things to know about Kaseya’s $6.2 billion acquisition of Datto, including the news that Datto CEO Tim Weller will not be a part of the new company.
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Kaseya CEO Fred Voccola: SMB IT Experts In ‘The Right Place At The Right Time’
by C.J. Fairfield
‘These small to midsize businesses are being digitally transformed. They’re changing and IT is not replacing what they used to do, it’s augmenting it. That means that small business has the ability to reach a much larger audience, but it’s dependent upon technology to do it,’ says Kaseya CEO Fred Voccola.
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ConnectWise Cybersecurity GM: You Can Never Be 100 Percent Secure
by C.J. Fairfield
‘When [MSPs] do business with us it’s, ‘What are you doing to protect your platform?’ Then we hear, ‘What does good security look like? What do we have to do? What‘s the minimum we should sell? How do we offer the services out?’ We do whatever we can to make sure we’re secure.’– Raffael Marty, general manager of cybersecurity at ConnectWise.
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Liongard Lays Off Employees: ‘The Most Difficult Decision’
by C.J. Fairfield
‘We must make organizational changes that require us to part ways with a portion of our teammates who have been with us on our journey. This has been the most difficult decision I’ve had to make at Liongard, and I know it will be challenging for our teammates,’ says Joe Alapat, founder and CEO of Liongard.
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ConnectWise CEO Jason Magee: Partner Growth Is The Most Important
by C.J. Fairfield
‘Make no mistake about it, we are 100 percent committed and I can‘t think of any other company that is more committed and provides more comprehensively the tools, resources and services to help us secure your business, secure your customers and to help you grow your cybersecurity practice,’ says Jason Magee, CEO of ConnectWise.
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ConnectWise’s Newest Partnerships Makes Cyber Insurance ‘So Easy’ For MSPs
by C.J. Fairfield
‘We‘re going make it a little easier for MSPs to get cyber insurance and show that they actually have done the things that reduce the risk,’ says Raffael Marty, general manager of cybersecurity at ConnectWise
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FifthWall Helps MSPs Have The Cyber Insurance ‘Conversation’ With Customers
by C.J. Fairfield
The company’s new practice, which is in pilot phase, starts with educating MSPs and giving them the confidence around the topic of cyber insurance with the goal of ‘making their life easier,’ says FifthWall President Reid Wellock.
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LogicMonitor Launches Unified Observability Platform
by C.J. Fairfield
‘Data is becoming more complicated. We’re getting it from all these different parts across the IT environments and it needs to be collected, curated, processed and then analyzed so we can actually give actionable insights, not just where or why,’ says LogicMonitor CEO Christina Kosmowski.
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DXC Relocates Many Of Its 4,000 Ukrainian Workers
by C.J. Fairfield
‘In April, we exited the Russian market and successfully took care of our customers and colleague of that business. This action fulfilled DXC‘ commitment to exit the region and will reduce our revenues by approximately $140 million per year,’ says Mike Salvino, CEO of DXC Technology.
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N-able May Be A Potential Takeover Target: RBC Analyst
by C.J. Fairfield
N-able is viewed as a potential takeover target after software competitor Datto was acquired by Kaseya for $6.2 billion.
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ConnectWise Hires Former Office Depot Exec As CIO
by C.J. Fairfield
‘ConnectWise is focused on continuously improving our products and partner experience, and we need outstanding, proven leaders at the helm to do that successfully,’ says Jason Magee, CEO of ConnectWise. ‘That’s why we are thrilled to welcome both Todd and Ciaran to our executive team. We are excited to see the contributions they will make to ConnectWise and our valued community through their expertise and leadership.’
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MSP360 CEO: Kaseya-Datto Deal ‘Like Two Old Guys Getting Together’
by C.J. Fairfield
'We are a full cloud infrastructure provider, so what’s nice is I’m not trying to convince somebody that they need to leave Datto or they need to leave Kaseya because this is going to be more cost effective for them. They’re coming to me already with their mind made up that they’re probably going to make a change.’ says MSP360 CEO Brian Helwig.
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