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O’Ryan Johnson is a veteran news reporter. He covers the channel beat for CRN and hopes to hear from channel partners about how he can improve his coverage and write the stories they want to read. He can be reached at ojohnson@thechannelcompany.com.
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Channel Superstar Sammy Kinlaw Talks About His New Role At Tech Data
by O’Ryan Johnson
‘This is going to be a blast. I’m walking in the door, not being arrogant, but I’m feeling so confident just because I have walked the walk and I have done the work,’ Sammy Kinlaw, Tech Data’s new senior vice president of endpoint solutions for the Americas, tells CRN.
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Tyler Technologies ‘Strongly’ Recommends Customers Change Passwords After Ransomware Attack
by O’Ryan Johnson
Tyler Technologies says that only its internal network was ‘targeted’ in the attack but adds that there have been ‘several suspicious logins’ to customers’ systems so it is recommending they update their passwords.
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Tyler Technologies: Ransomware Locked Our Network, But Election Info Not At Risk
by O’Ryan Johnson
In a late Friday afternoon update to the single page of attack information that now passes for Tyler Technologies’ website, the company admitted to being hit by ransomware, but insisted customers were safe.
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Big Game Hunting: Why Tyler Technologies, Cognizant, Conduent And DXC Technology Were Hit With Ransomware
by O’Ryan Johnson
Ransomware groups have launched attacks on some of the world’s largest solution providers in 2020 thanks to a new approach that puts the dissemination of victim data - rather than merely encrypting stolen files - at the center of everything they do.
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Depth Security Co-Founder: Networks Only As Safe As ‘Weakest Link’
by O’Ryan Johnson
“You‘re only as secure as your weakest link and it may be an application that you purchased that’s sitting on your perimeter,” says Gene Abramov, principal security consultant at Depth Security, which is owned by All Covered.
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Tyler Technologies Suffers Apparent Ransomware Attack
by O’Ryan Johnson
Plano, Texas-based Tyler provides end-to-end information management solutions to more than 15,000 local government offices in all 50 states, Canada, the Caribbean, and Australia.
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New Dataprise CEO, MSP Icon Steve Lewis Talks About ‘The Flight To Quality’ During A Crisis
by O’Ryan Johnson
‘Our view is that we want to provide our clients with an unfair competitive advantage by virtue of giving them the IT tools and technology that allow them to use IT as a competitive weapon,’ says Lewis.
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2020 Fast Growth 150: The Top 25 Solution Providers
by Joseph F. Kovar
Here are the top 25 companies on this year‘s Fast Growth 150 list, which ranks solution providers, with gross annual sales of at least $1 million, by their two-year growth rate.
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Accenture Layoffs Target Up To 25,000 Low Performers: Report
by O’Ryan Johnson
‘As I’ve said before, we’ve identified some real areas of efficiencies and so that has obviously headcount implications to it, which may be what you’re calling layoffs,’ CEO Julie Sweet had said during a June 25 earnings call.
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Ingram Micro Is Target Of $7B Bid By Platinum Equity: Report
by O’Ryan Johnson
The private equity powerhouse is in ‘advanced talks’ to buy the Irvine, Calif. based IT distributor, according to a Bloomberg report.
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Konica Minolta Hit By Ransomware, No Impact To All Covered
by O’Ryan Johnson
Konica Minolta joins fellow print victims Xerox and Canon as ransomware actors increasingly target enterprise companies in 2020.
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D&H Distributing Is ‘Monetizing The Seat’ For Partners With Cloud Platform
by O’Ryan Johnson
‘It really is a win-win opportunity for partners that want to adopt this business model,’ says Jason Bystrak, vice president of the cloud unit at D&H Distributing.
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SolarWinds MSP: The Best MSPs Lead With Security To Drive Revenue
by O’Ryan Johnson
‘It’s one of their leads, if not their lead, when driving forward, especially when it comes to considering things like backup or data protection. Ultimately, they’re able to deliver security services at higher margins,’ says Colin Knox, vice president of community at SolarWinds MSP.
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Pax8 On MSP Partners Learning To ‘Survive And Thrive’ Amid Pandemic
by O’Ryan Johnson
‘The progressive MSPs are not seeing this as an opportunity to hold on,’ said Ryan Walsh, chief channel officer at Pax8. ‘The progressive ones are seeing this as survive and thrive. What they’re really doing is they’re preparing themselves for coming out of this curve.’
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