O’Ryan Johnson

Accenture’s Sweet: ‘The Power Of The Team’ Key To Future

by O’Ryan Johnson

‘At Accenture we have never been about one person, but always about the power of the team. Together we have achieved market-leading results. We are committed to building an ever-stronger Accenture in the years ahead,’ incoming CEO Julie Sweet told investors Friday morning.

Accenture Names Julie Sweet CEO

by O’Ryan Johnson

Sweet has been CEO of Accenture North America and has been with the company for more than nine years. She is expected to take over in September.

AWS Marketplace ‘Excited’ To Offer Cherwell’s ‘Enterprise Grade’ ITSM

by O’Ryan Johnson

‘It isn’t just a matter of our product sitting in the marketplace,’ Cherwell Chief Marketing Officer Scott Gainey says. ‘AWS has a managed service business that is quite large that is also managing the Cherwell environment. So, when a customer goes and purchases Cherwell through the marketplace, AWS Managed Services will do the day to day management of that environment.’

ServiceNow Expands Partnership With Microsoft To Run Its SaaS Platform On Azure

by O’Ryan Johnson

The expanded partnership will elevate ServiceNow to one of Microsoft’s strategic partners in its Global ISV Strategic Alliance Portfolio.

Insight-PCM Deal To Spawn $9B Goliath With ‘Global Scale And Deep Technical Talent’

by O’Ryan Johnson

The deal came together in a series of conversations over the past two years, driven primarily by the relationship between the company’s CEOs. The new combined company puts Insight at No. 11 on the CRN SP500, just behind SHI.

Lawmakers Seek Improved Cyber Safeguards With IoT Security Bill

by O’Ryan Johnson

‘My hope is that we can use the federal purchasing power to shape the wider consumer, enterprise and industrial markets for IoT devices ... and given the current market failure we see in securing these devices, this seems as good a place as any for the federal government to serve as an impetus,’ U.S. Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) tells CRN.

Accenture’s $1.3B M&A Plan: Maximum Return With A Focus On ‘The New’

by O’Ryan Johnson

‘We will never be irrational in overpaying for an asset in the market,’ the company’s interim CEO says. ‘On the other hand, we look at things through a strategic lens, and we understand that if something has significant strategic value and there’s a scarcity of the skill in the marketplace, then we make the judgment of paying a little more in those instances.’

Tata Consultancy, NTT Data Among Cloud Hopper Attack Victims: Reports

by O’Ryan Johnson

According to an indictment, there were teams of hackers—including the APT10 Group—all with connections to the Chinese Ministry of State Security which penetrated the victims’ networks and used them as a launchpad to attack their customers’ systems.

IT By Design: Network Restored After Ransomware Attack That Impacted 8 Customers

by O’Ryan Johnson

“A short 48 hours later, 96 percent of affected systems are restored, and our clients are operational with minimal to no data loss,” said IT By Design in a statement.

Cognizant Getting $200M From Facebook To Moderate Violent Content Amid Allegations Of ‘Filthy’ Work Conditions: Report

by O’Ryan Johnson

Cognizant, which came under fire earlier this year for the difficult working conditions faced by contractors it hires to scrub traumatizing content from Facebook, is reportedly getting $100 million per year for the job.

Pax8 Boosts Security, Adds SentinelOne To Its ‘Arms Locker’ For MSPs

by O’Ryan Johnson

“In the virus world now, one line of defense is not enough,” said Pax8 partner Eddie Henderson, of ATS Communications. “SentinelOne gives us the functionality of the full (endpoint detect and response), but without the load that a full EDR puts on a machine ... The last things customers want to do is invest in something that’s going to slow down their hardware.”

Accenture Buys IoT Firm To Help Design, Build, Secure Devices

by O’Ryan Johnson

‘The focus of this acquisition is really helping our clients to build IoT and network connected devices to be secure from the manufacture,’ Steve Curtis, Global Leader for Accenture's Communications, Media, Technology & Aerospace Cybersecurity Practice tells CRN.

ConnectWise Upgrades Its Marketplace To Include Buying

by O’Ryan Johnson

‘If someone wants to go buy one of these third-party products, they can go do so, whenever they want. They can choose how many licenses they want to give, and also upgrade and downgrade the licenses and we’re also providing usage-based licensing, where appropriate for the product,’ ConnectWise chief product officer Jeff Bishop tells CRN.

D&H Distributing Cloud Executive Bystrak On His First Project And Why ‘We’re Starting To Get Into The Groove’

by O’Ryan Johnson

Prior to his job at D&H, Bystrak was vice president of worldwide channels & distribution for Axcient. Before that he spent 22 years at D&H competitor Ingram Micro where he helped to build that company’s cloud computing plan.