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Here’s How The Work-From-Home Tech Market Fared In Q2
by Gina Narcisi
Employees weren’t spending much on mice or keyboards in Q2 2020, but USB cameras and PC headsets became hot commodities during the second quarter as work from home mandates went into effect, according to the NPD Group.
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Intel Spins Out Omni-Path Interconnect Business Into Stand-Alone Company
by Dylan Martin
‘It started becoming apparent to me that Intel was going to de-emphasize this product line. And I spent the bulk of my career working on it, and I could see that it still had very big potential,’ Phil Murphy, one of Omni-Path’s architects and CEO of Cornelis Networks, says of his plan to take on Nvidia’s Mellanox InfiniBand interconnect business.
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Lightbits Labs Gets Intel Funding, Touts New Storage Strategic Relationship
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘We’ve gone beyond dating and have gotten engaged. This is a commitment to work together and to allocate resources from both companies. This is not just about money,’ says Josh Goldenhar, vice president of product marketing for Lightbits.
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Six Things To Know About the Latest Microsoft Cloud Outage
by Joseph Tsidulko
Azure Active Directory, Microsoft’s popular identity and access management service, stopped working Monday afternoon after an engineer attempted a code change, locking users across the U.S. out of their cloud-based apps
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Datto Files For IPO With Ticker Symbol ‘MSP’ In ‘Major Validation’ Of Industry
by Joseph F. Kovar
“We expect MSPs will help [clients post-pandemic] more than ever. Datto will be there as technology creator, thought leader and support partner as they deploy new applications; navigate technology on-premises, in public clouds and in hybrids of both; and continue to defend against proliferating security threats,” writes Datto CEO Tim Weller in the Datto’s S-1 filing.
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Blockchain Startup Fluree Completes Seed Funding Round
by Rick Whiting
The developer of a blockchain-based data management platform continues to expand its channel efforts as its works with VAR, systems integrator and ISV partners.
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Salesforce, Berkshire Hathaway Retain Major Stakes In Snowflake
by Rick Whiting
Both companies own more than $1 billion in shares of the high-flying cloud data management company two weeks after Snowflake’s blockbuster IPO.
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Security Minute: Partner Success Story – Growing Pipeline In Trying Times
by CRN Staff
Learn how one solution provider credits its partnership with RSA for helping to ensure profitable survival through COVID-19 and beyond.
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Red Hat’s CIO On COVID-19, Cloud And Being A Big Red Hat Customer
by Joseph Tsidulko
‘When there’s a shock to the system, it really serves as a leveling mechanism to how people operate,’ Red Hat CIO Mike Kelly tells CRN.
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NetApp Expands Its New Spot Tech For Dynamic Cloud Compute Instances
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘Spot has AI and machine learning in the platform to predict further in advance when a spot instance will disappear. It understands the customer application and resources needed and will use on-demand, reserved and spot instances to lower the costs,’ says John Woodall, vice president of engineering West at NetApp partner General Datatech.
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VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger’s 5 Biggest Statements At VMworld 2020
by Mark Haranas
‘There’s enterprise 5G, which I predict will displace Wi-Fi globally. As one of the creators of Wi-Fi, that’s a difficult statement to make,’ says VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger in his keynote at VMworld 2020 today.
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The Best And The Worst States For Finding Tech Talent
by Rick Whiting
Solution providers looking to expand geographically will need to hire highly educated and experienced workers to succeed. Here’s where to look for the most talented workers (and where not to).
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Apple Device Management Firm Jamf Ties In Closer With Microsoft
by Kyle Alspach
The company’s ‘big move’ will share data from Jamf’s management of iOS devices with Microsoft Endpoint Manager, CEO Dean Hager told CRN.
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Microsoft Blames Software ‘Code Issue’ For Office 365 Outage
by Donna Goodison
“It’s amazing to me that a change in code could cause a platform as big as Azure to go down,” says a senior executive for one of Microsoft’s top partners, who did not want to be identified. “It sounds like someone wrote some code that was merged into a production environment and it broke authentication. That’s ridiculous. If you can’t get into email or documents for five hours it’s pretty bad.”
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Nvidia NGC To Supercharge AI On VMware Cloud, vSphere And Tanzu
by Dylan Martin
‘We are joining forces now to say, ‘hey, use this same platform and run your workloads,’ which essentially means that we can bring AI to every enterprise on top of the platform that they are already using,’ VMware executive Krish Prasad says of the upcoming integration of Nvidia’s NGC hub for GPU-accelerated software.
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VMware Acquires SaltStack To ‘Complete Our Automation Story’
by Mark Haranas
‘SaltStack will help us to complete our automation story, enabling us to extend our automation capabilities beyond infrastructure to the entire application stack,’ says VMware’s cloud leader, Ajay Singh.
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The 10 Fastest-Growing Digital Transformation Products Of Q2 2020
by Dylan Martin
While the coronavirus pandemic accelerated some digital transformation efforts in the second quarter, only a handful of product categories, including servers and tablets, saw double-digit growth while others plummeted in demand.
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Cybersecurity Firm McAfee Files For Second IPO
by O’Ryan Johnson
McAfee’s move paves the way for its return to the stock market, having traded publicly from 1999 to 2011 prior to being acquired by Intel. Its IPO filing detailed the “significant portion” of sales that go through the channel.
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Microsoft Office 365 Outage Hits Users Across The U.S.
by Joseph Tsidulko
Azure Active Directory, Microsoft’s identity and access management service, appears to have suffered a glitch Monday afternoon that locked users out of their email and other cloud-based productivity tools
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