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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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Atos And DXC Technology Deal ‘Not For The Faint Of Heart:’ Analyst
by O’Ryan Johnson
MoffettNathanson anticipates that the combined entity could see about $300 million in cost synergies, but would not be able to increase revenues in the first year beyond one percent.
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Pax8 Launches European Cloud Distribution Bid With Wirehive Acquisition
by O’Ryan Johnson
‘I don’t believe anyone is delivering on PSA integrations the way Pax8 intends to,’ says Pax8 Chief Revenue Officer Nick Heddy of the company’s entry into the European Union.
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Datto Offers All MSPs Free Scanner To Find Signs Of FireEye, SolarWinds Hack
by O’Ryan Johnson
‘Now is a time to remain vigilant and take an active role in hardening systems against these, now known, tactics,’ Datto CISO Ryan Weeks writes in a blog post announcing the scanner.
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SolarWinds MSP To Revoke Digital Certificates For Tools, Issue New Ones As Breach Fallout Continues
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘I think they’re afraid. They’ve got liability, and they don’t know what to say, so everybody’s told to keep their mouth shut. Instead of being focused on the issue at hand, they’re worried about lawsuits,” SolarWinds MSP partner Rich Delany tells CRN.
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SolarWinds Names New CEO As Potential Spin-off Inches Forward
by O’Ryan Johnson
Pulse Secure CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna was named the incoming chief executive of SolarWinds, as well as a board member. He is expected to step into the roles next month.
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Ingram Micro Agrees To $7.2B Acquisition By Platinum Private Equity
by O’Ryan Johnson
Irvine, Calif.-based IT distributor Ingram Micro has entered into an agreement to be purchased by Platinum Equity Partners for $7.2 billion.
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Partners Urge ConnectWise To Not Lose Sight Of What Makes Perch Security, StratoZen Unique
by O’Ryan Johnson
Seven ConnectWise partners talk about their hopes for the integration of the company’s recent security acquisitions, the all-in-one platform ConnectWise Fusion, and what they would like to see moving forward.
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IBM Plans Massive European Layoffs Ahead Of ‘NewCo’ Spin-off: Report
by O’Ryan Johnson
The layoffs are thought to be an effort to streamline IBM’s systems integration business ahead of a spin-off CEO Arvind Krishna announced in October.
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AWS Outage Downs ConnectWise Single Sign-On Function, BrightGauge
by O’Ryan Johnson
ConnectWise deployed a workaround to restore many of the impacted services, while AWS said it was working on problems with four cloud regions in northern Virginia that started about 6:30 AM ET on Wednesday morning.
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Datto Adds 1,000 MSP Customers, Even As COVID-Related Churn Hits Base
by O’Ryan Johnson
“There have been some MSPs running right into the eye of the storm and saying change is good. I think just more MSPs have to adopt that to return to previous levels,” Datto CEO Tim Weller told investors.
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Pax8, Partners Are Feasting After Early Pandemic Cash Fears Turned Into ‘Big Fat Nothing Burger,’ CEO Says
by O’Ryan Johnson
“When the pandemic hit, our clientele is largely small business, and I personally thought we may have a lot of defaults, we may have a lot of cancels. I wanted to make sure that we had the financial resources to weather the storm, and the storm turned out to be a big fat nothing burger,” Pax 8 CEO John Street tells CRN
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Pax8 CEO John Street To Rivals: ‘Up Your Game’
by O’Ryan Johnson
‘[Traditional distributors] just think we’re specifically targeting their customers. We’re not. We’re in the market targeting everybody. In our case, we didn’t start with a base of customers. We had zero MSPs. We’re building the network as we go,’ Street tells CRN.
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Pax8 Partners ‘Blown Away’ By ‘Awesome’ Pax8 Pro
by O’Ryan Johnson
‘The insight that you’re going to get into the tools that you’re using, the Microsoft product that you’re already using, I think it’s really going to be a game-changer for for the industry,’ says Techvera President Justin Dews of the new product, Pax8 Pro.
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