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Why Low-Code/No-Code Can Bring A ‘Distinct Advantage’ For MSPs
by Kyle Alspach
Using a low-code/no-code platform to create internal business apps is a major revenue opportunity and way to increase stickiness with customers, according to TrueIT CEO Zac Paulson.
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Huntress CEO: Microsoft Calling Out Russia’s SVR In Latest Attack Will Hopefully Drive Resellers To Act Now
by C.J. Fairfield
‘If you think about the budget required to stop a nation state … Fortune 500 businesses, the largest in the world, fail to stop nation- state actors, let alone midmarket resellers or midmarket technology service providers. ... The vast majority aren’t prepared to deal with cybercriminals, let alone nation-state actors,’ Huntress CEO Kyle Hanslovan tells CRN.
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‘SolarWinds Hackers’ Now Hitting Resellers: 5 Things To Know
by Michael Novinson
From leveraging anonymous infrastructure and taking advantage of delegated administrative privileges to gaining access to virtual machines, here’s how the group behind the SolarWinds attack is going after resellers.
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Cisco Webex Investment ‘Thrills’ Partners Targeting Hybrid Work Opportunities
by Gina Narcisi
The tech giant continues to take aim at its collaboration competition by continuously innovating and bolstering its Webex collaboration platform with more than 1,000 new features and capabilities over the last 12 months in an investment that Cisco partners applaud.
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SolarWinds Hackers’ New Attack Is ‘Another Wake-Up Call’ For Microsoft Partners
by Steven Burke
“I wouldn’t want to be an MSP who is just starting to think about cybersecurity now as they might not exist in another year,” says US itek President David Stinner. “This is yet another wake-up call for MSPs that you need to get out of the chair in your office and convince your customers to buy the protection they need.”
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SolarWinds Hackers Compromise 14 Resellers In New Effort: Microsoft
by Michael Novinson
‘Russia is trying to gain long-term, systematic access to a variety of points in the technology supply chain and establish a mechanism for surveilling … targets of interest to the Russian government,’ writes Microsoft’s Tom Burt in a blog post.
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AMD Says New Patches Fix CPU Issues On Windows 11
by Dylan Martin
The chipmaker says a new Windows 11 software update addresses an L3 cache latency issue that could reduce performance in certain applications and games while a separate AMD chipset driver package fixes thread scheduling issues that also impacted performance.
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Avanade Acquires Microsoft Dynamics Superstar Quantiq
by Steven Burke
“Quantiq is winning and punching well above its weight, more than any other Microsoft Dynamics partner in the world,” said Martin Wolf, president of martinwolf M&A Advisors which acted as an advisor to Quantiq on the transaction. “Avanade now has a significant Dynamics outsourcing capability.”
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eGroup Gets Equity, Plans Acquisitions As It Eyes Growth
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘For a company of our size—about $30 million in revenue—to grow like we want to, I felt it’s time to de-risk and to bring in the right people. We are pursuing organic growth to muscle up on what we have, and acquisitions to find additional capabilities we don’t have while expanding our footprint to areas where we don’t have the manpower,’ says Mike Carter, eGroup founder and principal.
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Here Were Microsoft’s Top Paid Executives In 2021
by Wade Tyler Millward
Microsoft saw $168.1 billion in sales for fiscal year 2021 as it hailed the results of “another year of historic financial performance.”
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Microsoft To Expand Access To Financial Services Cloud
by Wade Tyler Millward
‘For Microsoft to be successful in deploying these, they‘re gonna need a partner like us to go out there and help set it up,’ John Weston, senior vice president of the global Microsoft practice for Boston-based Microsoft Gold Partner Publicis Sapient, tells CRN in an interview.
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Who Made Gartner’s Magic Quadrant: Top Data Integration Tools In 2021
by Rick Whiting
These 18 developers of data integration tools include industry giants IBM and Oracle, established data integration technology developers such as Informatica and Talend, and more recent entrants into the data integration space. Here’s a look at how they are positioned in the fast-changing data integration arena.
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US Army Delays Microsoft Headset Deployment As Part Of $21.9B Deal
by Wade Tyler Millward
“The Army is fully committed to its partnership with Microsoft to advance specific technologies to meet operational requirements and maximize warfighter impact,” according to the statement.
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Google Cloud CEO: SLSA Adoption Would’ve Muted SolarWinds Hack
by Donna Goodison
CEO Thomas Kurian touts the No. 3 cloud computing provider’s security chops in an exclusive interview with CRN.
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