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Amazon Web Services To Launch New Zealand Cloud Region
by Donna Goodison
The new AWS infrastructure region is slated to open in Auckland with three availability zones in 2024.
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Tech Companies To Offer Jobs, Training For Afghan Refugees
by Donna Goodison
The technology companies are among 32 organizations joining the Tent Coalition for Afghan Refugees to help Afghans better integrate into the U.S. economy.
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Four New Microsoft Azure Vulnerabilities Reported By Cyber Firm Wiz
by Wade Tyler Millward
The vulnerabilities are associated with an open-source software agent embedded in Microsoft Azure tools, according to Wiz, which says the affected services have not yet been fixed by Microsoft.
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Citrix Systems Exploring Sale After Elliott Management Stake, Stock Drop: Report
by Wade Tyler Millward
Citrix is considering a sale following a 16 percent drop in its share price and activist investor Elliott Management buying a 10 percent stake in the company, according to a report from Bloomberg.
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HPE Snatches Away VMware Cloud Services GM Fidelma Russo As New CTO
by Steven Burke
The appointment of Russo comes with HPE in the midst of a “massive acceleration” of the GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform-as-a-service development effort.
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Microsoft Cloud Automation Software Developer SkyKick Raises $130M
by Wade Tyler Millward
“This is an important milestone, if you will, that recognizes the value that MSPs bring to the market,” co-founder and co-CEO Todd Schwartz said in an interview with CRN.
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Oracle’s Larry Ellison Hits AWS On Cost, Security As He Pounces On Rivals
by Wade Tyler Millward
“We don’t think an application should talk to five or six separate databases,” Oracle co-founder and CTO Larry Ellison says about Amazon’s database offerings. “We think it’s a very, very risky security architecture.”
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AWS re:Invent Attendees Must Be Fully Vaccinated, Masked
by Donna Goodison
‘A negative COVID-19 test will not be accepted as a substitution for being fully vaccinated against COVID-19,’ AWS says. ‘There will be no exceptions. Those who cannot comply with the vaccine requirement can join us virtually.’
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Ahead Of IPO, Freshworks Vows Channel Investment Driving ‘Substantial’ Sales
by Wade Tyler Millward
‘We believe that continued growth in our business is dependent upon identifying, developing, and maintaining strategic relationships with additional channel partners that can drive substantial revenue,’ Freshworks says in SEC documents filed Monday.
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Nerdio Passes 1M User Marker As Azure Popularity Grows
by Wade Tyler Millward
“It’s really a validation of the idea that we’ve believed in a lot for a long time,” Joseph Landes, chief revenue officer of the Chicago-based company, tells CRN in an interview. “We think it’s just the beginning.”
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IBM Watson Assistant Gains 3 New AI Features
by Wade Tyler Millward
‘The simplification of Watson Studio, Watson ML and AutoAI into a single tool makes it easier to understand and explain the capabilities,’ says Mark Wyllie, CEO of Flagship Solutions Group, a Boca Raton, Fla.-based IBM partner.
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Microsoft Scraps Return-To-Work Date Given ‘Uncertainty Of COVID-19’
by Wade Tyler Millward
“Given the uncertainty of COVID-19, we’ve decided against attempting to forecast a new date for a full reopening of our U.S. work sites in favor of opening U.S. work sites as soon as we’re able to do so safely based on public health guidance,” according to a Microsoft post.
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Microsoft Teams, Outlook To Get New Hybrid Work Capabilities
by Wade Tyler Millward
“I can’t hire enough people,” Jim Brennan, president of Huntingdon Valley, Pa.-based managed service provider Managed Services IT, told CRN in an interview. “If anybody was on the fence last year on moving to a virtual environment, all these conversations all summer have been, ‘Oh my God, what if it comes back in the fall? What do I do?’”
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