About
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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DXC Technology Accuses Contractors Of Bilking Company Out Of $12.2M
by O’Ryan Johnson
New Jersey-based Atlas Communications Technology and Smart IMS “pushed the fraud, actively concealed it from DXC, and were compensated for the role they played, all at DXC’s expense,” DXC’s court filing states.
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Synnex Stock Booms On Company Split News
by O’Ryan Johnson
The top IT distributor announced on Thursday that it expects to separate into two independent companies as a way to drive a sharper focus on both distribution and business services.
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Channel Cash Blitz: Private Equity Dollars Go MSP Hunting in 2020
by O’Ryan Johnson
'Why we’re seeing an increase in activity and velocity is that we’re seeing the pioneers now have a proof point. They’re able to get this to market, turn this around, and finance it at a much quicker pace,' John Pagliuca, executive vice president and general manager of SolarWinds MSP, tells CRN.
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5 Questions With D&H Distributing Co-President Michael Schwab
by O’Ryan Johnson
D&H Distributing co-president Michael Schwab talks about the surprising turn in device sales, the growth in cloud, and where the tech distributor is headed in 2020.
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MSP Dataprise, With Focus On U.S. Expansion, Acquired By PE Firm
by O’Ryan Johnson
'There are going to be a few, nationwide, coast-to-coast MSP players. We are very confident that Dataprise will be counted in the handful that will be successful. We’re thrilled to be in that race,' Dataprise founder and CEO David Eisner tells CRN.
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Xerox Wins $24 Billion In Financing For HP Takeover
by O’Ryan Johnson
Xerox CEO John Visentin is urging HP’s CEO to meet with him 'with or without your advisors, to begin negotiating this transaction,' he wrote in an open letter published Monday.
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Global Data Systems Executive Robert “Vaughn” Crisp II Killed In Peach Bowl Plane Crash
by O’Ryan Johnson
“He could talk to anybody. He could make anyone comfortable. If you had a difficult customer, he could smooth it out. In 20 years I never heard anyone say a bad word about him and that’s rare in our industry,” said Jason Manley, longtime friend of Robert “Vaughn” Crisp II.
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Ingram Micro’s Paul Bay Swipes At Rival’s ‘Leveraged’ Buyout, Possible Downgrade
by O’Ryan Johnson
‘You’ve seen the news that’s out there about the acquisition is going to heavily leverage up one of our competitors and there’s a strong likelihood, based on the press, that they’re going to be downgraded, if not one, multiple levels from a credit rating perspective,’ executive vice president and president Global Technology Solutions Paul Bay says.
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Xerox Seeks To Woo HP Shareholders In Latest Merger Volley
by O’Ryan Johnson
Inside the 33-page presentation titled ‘HP + Xerox A Value-Creating Combination,’ Xerox for the first time outlines how it would achieve $2 billion in synergies from the new enterprise – one of the concerns that HP’s board and CEO communicated in a letter to Xerox.
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