From the availability of backups and sensitivity of exfiltrated data to the health and safety consequences of nonpayment, here’s what companies must think about before forking over a ransom.
VMware’s COO Sanjay Poonen talks to CRN about leaving the company Friday, new VMware CEO Raghu Raghuram, his message to channel partners and what the future holds for the technology visionary.
‘Decoupling Mandiant expertise from FireEye products was one of the key purposes behind the strategy of divestiture, and we are seeing with Windows Defender our first big technical partnership,’ says FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia.
With 5G-capable devices hitting the market, partnerships between technology and service providers emerging, and carriers aggressively covering the nation with their 5G footprints, 2021 has been the year that 5G has gone from buzzword, to mainstream.
CRN breaks down the top cloud computing news midway through the year, from a new Amazon Web Services CEO, a channel chief change for Microsoft and the resignation of IBM’s president, to the U.S. Department of Defense’s JEDI contract cancellation, spin-off plans by Dell Technologies and a key HPE acquisition.
‘We are executing a people-first strategy, attracting and retaining talent is fundamental to enable our growth. Our refreshed leadership team has deep industry experience and is delivering,’ Michael Salvino, president and CEO of DXC Technology, said in an earnings call this week.
The CRN Test Center tryout found Lenovo’s latest ThinkPad 2-in-1 tablet to be well designed and highly portable, with an excellent keyboard and webcam.
As customers move past the global pandemic, they are looking to technology as a way to improve their business, says ePlus President and CEO Mark Marron.
‘We’re a software-only company. You can run our software on the cloud or on hardware all the same. It’s true software-defined storage with open APIs. So customers can do things like have a workload based on a Supermicro appliance shift to AWS to run first-party services,’ says Warren Mead, Qumulo’s vice president of channels and business development.
In addition to rolling out 5G in five new cities, bringing the total to 47 U.S. cities, Verizon is giving new 5G customers access to its new BlueJeans videoconferencing service, as well as its mobile communications solution for small business customers, Verizon One Talk, at no additional charge.
Sources tell CRN that Dell Technologies is on pace to close its spin-off of VMware in October following the five-year anniversary of Dell’s blockbuster $67 billion acquisition of EMC and VMware.
The high-performance remote computing vendor, which just announced a deal to be acquired by HP Inc., now supports remote access to Apple’s Mac devices.
‘We view it as a good thing for customers,’ Boston-based IBM partner Ironside Group’s CEO Tim Kreytak tells CRN in an interview. ‘IBM is a big place. It’s a way to have a concierge and a way to get to the right people and resources.’
Lumen’s Channel Chief Garrett Gee is leaving the company as Lumen executive Dave Young is promoted to the newly-created role of senior vice president of Strategic Sales, CRN learned.
It’s only halfway through 2021, and it’s already been a blockbuster year for Nvidia, which is increasingly becoming a bigger player in the world of computing with new enterprise software, programs and GPUs as well as data processing units and eventually CPUs.