Industry News
December 2020
FireEye Just Got Hit by highly Sophisticated cyberattack
November 2020
RSA Conference 2021 Goes All Virtual Due To COVID-19
Why Solution Providers Are Cheering A Biden Presidency
Barracuda Buys Remote Access Startup Fyde To Protect Apps
Dell Partners Reaping 20 Percent Margins On PowerStore Deals
Zix Adds Backup And Recovery To Arsenal With CloudAlly Buy
Micron Shipping 176-layer 3D NAND, With Enterprise Storage, Other Apps To Come
Identity Firm JumpCloud Raises $75M To Boost Ties With MSPs
Adobe To Acquire Workfront For $1.5B, Scooping Up Marketing Management Expertise
October 2020
CommScope Announces Leadership Shakeup, Charles Treadway As New CEO
Another Office 365 Outage: Does Microsoft Have A DevOps Problem
Salesforce-Backed Tanium Quietly Raising New $200M Round
Tableau Offers Integration Roadmap For Salesforce Einstein Analytics
AWS Creates Conflict For Amazon, Needs Regulation: House Subcommittee
Partners: Hope-Hunter Duo Is A ‘One Plus One Equals Three’ HPE GreenLake Game Changer
VMware Partners Hopeful On VMC On AWS Future With Hogan, Sullivan At Helm
Red Hat Integrates Ansible And OpenShift For Cloud-Native Automation
McAfee Details IPO Plans In New SEC Filing
Why Data Center Spending Will Hit $200B In 2021: Gartner
September 2020
Ingram Micro Sees WFH Growth From COVID-19, Lower Advanced Solutions Sales
Microsoft Holds On To $10B JEDI Cloud Contract After Pentagon Review
AWS Vows To Keep Fighting ‘Politically Corrupted’ JEDI Cloud Decision
NYT: U.S. Justice Department Barreling Toward Google Antitrust Suit
Cloud Solution Provider Ahead Trades One Private Equity Owner For Two Others
Catalog Raises $10M To Bring DNA-Based Data Storage To Market
Progress Software To Acquire DevOps Company Chef In $220 Million Deal
Nvidia Sued By Data Center Company Over ‘vCompute’ Trademark
Dell Confirms Layoffs; Says It Is Addressing ‘Cost Structure’
AWS Outposts Ready Launches With 32 Validated Partners
Oracle Will Take Minority Stake In New U.S.-based TikTok Owner: Report
F5 Networks’ NGINX Portfolio Won’t Slow Down ‘Modern’ App Developers
Arm Says New Neoverse V1, N2 Server CPUs Faster Than Intel, AMD
HPE Finalizes Silver Peak Deal, Gets ‘Leg Up’ On Cisco
COLUMN: iCorps’ IT Leadership On Demand A ‘Life-Saver’ For SMB Customers Starving For IT Insight
Microsoft’s Underwater Data Center A Success; Azure Ahead
Michael Dell: COVID-19 Caused Public Cloud ‘Fast Route’, But Multi-Cloud Will ‘Resonate’
Microsoft Blames Software ‘Code Issue’ For Office 365 Outage
Datto Files For IPO With Ticker Symbol ‘MSP’ In ‘Major Validation’ Of Industry
VMware Acquires SaltStack To ‘Complete Our Automation Story’
Apple Device Management Firm Jamf Ties In Closer With Microsoft
Blockchain Startup Fluree Completes Seed Funding Round
Avnet CEO Bill Amelio Leaves; Phil Gallagher Takes Over On Interim Basis
Cambium Networks’ Enterprise Pivot Is Paving The Way For Channel Momentum
Trump OKs Potential TikTok Deal With Microsoft
Intel Investigating Large Leak Of Confidential Files
Michael Dell: We Need ‘A Longer-Term View Of The New Normal’
Oracle Looks To Empower The Channel With Its VMware Alliance
Connection CEO: Sales Hit Hard By COVID-19, ERP Implementation
The Channel Company To Launch ‘Reimagined’ Partner Event With XChange+
Cisco Partners: You’re Going To Need Us For Consumption-Based IT Shift
Oracle Laying Off Staff At Underperforming Commerce Cloud: Report
Dell Hires Cisco Canada President As New Global Channel Chief
Fiery Channel Advocate John Byrne Is Now Overseeing Dell’s North America Channel
Oracle Competing With Microsoft In Possible TikTok Deal: Reports
ACP CreativIT Paves Way For Future Acquisitions With New COO Matt Zafirovski
Edge Data Center Pioneer EdgeConneX Acquired By EQT
Ingram Micro Is Target Of $7B Bid By Platinum Equity: Report
Zoom Outages: Services Restored For Majority Of Users
NetApp Layoffs: CEO George Kurian Confirms Hit To Its SolidFire Business
HP CEO: Remote Learning And Work Driving ‘Unprecedented Demand’ For PCs
Mass Layoffs At Salesforce After Company Posts Record-Breaking Earnings
Ma Labs Ransomware Attack Shakes Up Components Industry
CenturyLink Outage Blamed For Taking Down Popular Websites, Apps
July 2020
Xerox Files Allegedly Stolen By Maze Ransomware Group: Reports
VMware To Buy Datrium, Enhancing Disaster Recovery Capabilities
Why IoT Vendors Are Investing In Consulting, Systems Integration
Multiple DXC Technology Customers Down After Insurance Arm Hit By Ransomware
VMware To Acquire Blue Medora’s True Visibility Business
Microsoft Seizes Domains Used For COVID-19-Themed Phishing
Rackspace Technology Files For IPO Four Years After Going Private
HP Reclaims Top Spot In U.S. PC Shipments In Q2
SoftBank Eyes Potential Sale Or IPO Of Arm: Reports
MSP Merger: Coronavirus No Obstacle To Datapath’s Bright Bear Buy
VMware Confirms Flinders Is Out As Channel Chief; Former Cisco Exec Sandy Hogan Takes Over
HPE SimpliVity 146 Layoffs Confirmed: WARN Notice
Microsoft Targets Consulting Services For Higher-Risk Projects And New Technologies
Cloudflare Outage Briefly Brings Down Public Cloud Workloads
Microsoft Layoffs Confirmed Across Its Divisions: Report
Michael Dell, Silver Lake To Retain Controlling VMware Stake: Sources
ScanSource To Lay Off 200, Shutter Salesforce Deployment Unit Due To COVID-19
Verizon’s Wireless Strength Braces Carrier Against COVID-19 Impact
Top Intel Exec Murthy Renduchintala To Leave After 7nm Stumble
HPE Promotes Legal Exec John Schultz To Chief Operating Officer
AMD CEO Lisa Su: Roadmap Execution Is Key To Fighting Intel
June 2020
Microsoft Acquires ADRM To Create Intelligent Data Lake In Azure
ConnectWise Partners Hit By Ransomware Via Automate Flaw
AWS CEO Andy Jassy: 6th-Gen EC2 Instances A ‘Game-Changer’
Activist Elliott Management Takes Stake In Oracle
Coronavirus Crisis: How Google Cloud Is Helping Retailers
Microsoft Makes 5G Play With Deal For Affirmed Networks
Dell Considering Sale Of VMware Stake: Report
Hitachi, Microsoft Enter Strategic Manufacturing Alliance
Fluree Sees Momentum In Blockchain Adoption, Partner Recruitment
‘Truly Inspirational:’ After COVID-19 Diagnosis, Antonio Neri Goes All Out For HPE Discover Virtual
Silver Lake, Elliott Management Favor VMware Spin-off From Dell: Report
March 2020
Actionable Options to Give Employees Work-From-Home Capability
Building Business Resilience with Pulse Secure
Captive Portals for Captive Audiences
COVID-19 Impact: As Retailers Close their Doors, Hackers Open for Business
ESET Extends Trial Period for Consumer, SMB and Enterprise Products During COVID-19
Remote Working: Endpoints Have Left the Building
Survey reveals 53% of DACH organisations plan to implement Zero Trust capabilities within the next 18 months although majority lack confidence to mitigate access threats
Tackling Additional Security Concerns for Remote Workers
April 2020
Scale Computing Offers Acronis Cloud Storage, Expands Storage Options for Enhanced Data Backup, Disaster Recovery, and Ransomware Mitigation
HPE Aruba Supplies Network Infrastructure to Floating Hospital to Aid COVID-19 Patients in Italy
Coronavirus scams: what to look for and how to stop them