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.
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Microsoft Partner Logicalis’ Newest Platform Enhances The Digital Worker
by C.J. Fairfield
‘Digital workers may work at different hours with different devices and can access work anywhere, all the time. So enabling systems in a platform that allows them to be empowered to do the job on their time, the better work/life balance. That’s really the driver,’ says Tony Fischer, Microsoft alliance leader for Logicalis.
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BeyondTrust’s Rob Spee: It’s All About Partnerships
by C.J. Fairfield
‘We’ve got to provide enablement to our partners to support our customers through that journey. So I’m putting in place a partner success team that will be that that bridge that looks at the end-to-end journey of the partner to provide that layer of support to the customer,’ says Rob Spee, BeyondTrust’s senior vice president of global channels.
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Log4j Threat Affecting VMware Horizon Servers ‘Could Escalate’: Huntress
by C.J. Fairfield
‘So far there’s been no huge impact because we’re catching it and preventing it from our MSPs,’ says Roger Koehler, VP of threat operations at Huntress. ‘But they could laterally move and really get into their entire environment, or if they end up ransoming these hosts, it can be devastating. It can prevent us from actually logging in and doing our job.’
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5 Things To Know About New Ingram Micro CEO Paul Bay
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘I’m honored to be CEO of such a phenomenal team and build further on our strategic imperatives to transform and modernize the way we do business, remove complexity for our partners, and be an indispensable business behind the many brands we serve,’ Bay says.
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Microsoft Partner Sa.global Acquires Chicago MSP, Stregthening North American Presence
by C.J. Fairfield
“Sa.global has a lot of global customers with American operations, and Dynamic Consulting had a lot of American customers with global operations, so I think this acquisition will help make that a seamless transaction for our customers.”– Jonathan Stypula, new president of sa.global Americas.
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Gartner: 12 Top Strategic Technology Trends For 2022
by C.J. Fairfield
From cloud-native platforms to decision intelligence to hyperautomation, here’s what technology research firm Gartner is predicting to be trending in 2022.
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MSP Corp Exec: Talent Shortage To Get Worse Before Improving
by C.J. Fairfield
‘[MSPs] need to automate more and reduce the repetitive tasks that the staff are doing. You can service more customers with less staff but you can also have your experienced people focus on what they’re good at and less on the initial general repetitive tasks,’ says David Papp, chief technology officer for MSP Corp.
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ITsavvy Acquires TRA’s K-12 Computing Unit To Scale Virtual Learning
by C.J. Fairfield
“Virtual learning today combined with artificial intelligence tomorrow is going to significantly change the nature of how students learn. We think that our ability to be at the forefront of educators, students and technology will enable us to continue to evolve this platform to serve the ecosystem and then deliver to this rapid change that we believe is coming.”¬–said Munu Gandhi, ITsavvy president and COO.
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Pax8 Acquires TVG, Expanding Cloud Services In Baltic Region
by C.J. Fairfield
‘TVG shares Pax8’s goal to really drive cloud technology and job adoption through these small and midsize businesses, which is typically what we‘ve been focusing on,’ says Harald Nuij, managing director of Pax8 Europe.
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Log4j Vulnerability: How Two MSPs Reacted To The Massive Exploit
by C.J. Fairfield
‘It’s one of the challenges with these kinds of vulnerabilities when they’re so critical,’ he says. ‘The community moves very rapidly to patch the open-source project but you often don’t get a perfect patch. There’s still more testing going on but it’s really important for businesses to really keep pace as these fixes come out because they’re still fairly critical,’ says Eric Walk, director of data solutions at Perficient, a St. Louis-based solution provider.
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Wipro To Acquire Cybersecurity Firm Edgile For $230M
by C.J. Fairfield
‘Adding Edgile’s strategic consulting capabilities and launching Wipro CyberTransform are significant milestones on our journey to becoming the trusted partner to security leaders and boardroom stakeholders,’ says Tony Buffomante, senior vice president and global head of cybersecurity & risk services at Wipro Limited.
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8 Cool Last-Minute Tech Christmas Gift Ideas For Teens
by C.J. Fairfield
From gaming consoles to headphones to virtual reality gear, here are eight cool tech gifts to get your teen this holiday.
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AWS, Oracle Partner Syntax Sees Growth Opportunities After $300M Funding
by C.J. Fairfield
‘We continue to be very active on the M&A front. We will continue building capabilities and acquiring capabilities in the market to be more for our customer and continue expanding our footprint and being their trusted partner of choice,’ says Christian Primeau, global CEO of Syntax.
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