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Jim Kavanaugh: WWT Shifts Sales Strategy Due To Coronavirus ‘Crisis’
by Mark Haranas
‘These are unprecedented times and uncharted waters that we’re all navigating,’ says World Wide Technology CEO Jim Kavanaugh in an interview with CRN.
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DXC, CDW, Others Hit: Coronavirus Stock Sell-off Again Slams Channel
by Joseph Tsidulko
The world’s largest IT distributors and systems integrators again saw their share prices plummet during the third-worst day in the history of the Dow Jones
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MSP Superstar Jason Wright Jumps To Midmarket Tech Titan RSM
by Steven Burke
“I feel like I have gone from the minor leagues to the major leagues of the MSP market,” said RSM US Director of Technology and Management Consulting Jason Wright. “It feels like going from a Triple A team to a championship team with a full suite of managed services from cybersecurity audits and managed security to NetSuite and Microsoft Dynamics—all backed up by a best-in-class tax and auditing business.”
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Wipro CEO To Step Down, Cites Family Matters
by Joseph F. Kovar
Abidali Z Neemuchwala cites family matters for his decision to step down after helping transition his yet-to-be-determined successor. During his four years at the helm, Wipro's business grew, but its reputation took a hit after a big cybersecurity attack in 2018.
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ConnectWise CEO Vows 'Unrelenting' Commitment To Security, Transparency
by O’Ryan Johnson
'I want to assure our community that we understand the trust you place in our products and people. We take that trust seriously,' ConnectWise CEO Jason Magee tells partners.
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SolarWinds RMM Tool Has Open Zero-Day Exploit: Huntress Labs
by O’Ryan Johnson
“We’ve been working rapidly on a hot fix that will be made available imminently to help mitigate potential risk for our partners. As of Jan. 24, we know of no exploits related to this vulnerability,” SolarWinds Vice President of Security Tim Brown said.
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ServiceNow Making AIOps Play With Loom Systems Acquisition
by Joseph F. Kovar
ServiceNow plans to integrate Loom Systems' ability to analyze log data to the ServiceNow platform to improve its AIOps (artificial intelligence for IT operations) and provide a better customer experience.
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Global Data Systems Executive Robert “Vaughn” Crisp II Killed In Peach Bowl Plane Crash
by O’Ryan Johnson
“He could talk to anybody. He could make anyone comfortable. If you had a difficult customer, he could smooth it out. In 20 years I never heard anyone say a bad word about him and that’s rare in our industry,” said Jason Manley, longtime friend of Robert “Vaughn” Crisp II.
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All Eyes On Potential Fallout From Apollo Global’s $5.4B Tech Data Acquisition
by Steven Burke
‘You hear the argument that because they are going to have so much debt they will have to raise prices,’ says Martin Wolf, president of martinwolf M&A Advisors of Walnut Creek, Calif., one of the top channel investment advisory deal-makers. ‘I don’t believe that. I think they’ll eliminate things that partners don’t want to pay for and they’ll put that into price. I think is absolutely going to improve Tech Data’s pricing. This is a good deal for partners.’
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IT Services Game-Changer: Corsica Buys MSP Superstar Symplexity
by Steven Burke
“This adds another All Star IT services provider to our platform with security services and a proven digital transformation team with software development capabilities and advanced business applications support for our clients,” said Corsica Technologies CEO Dale Walls.
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MSPs Will Help Enable The 'Virtualization Of The World,' Says Futurist
by Kyle Alspach
‘The winners toward the end of the next decade will be the ones who best figure out what belongs in the virtual world, what should remain in the physical world, and how you connect between them,’ says futurist Michael Rogers told attendees at NexGen 2019.
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Partners: HP's Printer Shift Will Help To Drive Managed Print Services
by Kyle Alspach
HP’s plan to overhaul its print business model is another signal that contractual managed print services are the future, partners say.
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